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Hi
I'm at work at the moment(infinitely so because it's a 5 year project) and I was just wondering if you guys could help me.
Conundrum:
How do you motivate your brick layers to lay more bricks?
further insight:
I've been doing this for 4 years and have noticed a pattern. brick layers will only lay enough bricks to earn a minimum wage. this fact is ridiculous because the number of bricks in order to achieve minimum wage varies.
right now we are on our best project so far. brick layers only need to lay 500 bricks to earn minimum wage. usually it's double, 1000 bricks, yet now that they can make double the profit they refuse to lay more.
how do I get them to double their profit?
what I've already tried:
telling them how much they have made at the end of every day (publicly to shame the lower values)
monthly incentives to the bricky who laid the most bricks
monthly admonishments to lowest bricky
splitting the working force into teams and at the end of ever day telling them which team laid most (competition)
buying beers
setting daily goals
telling them they need double the amount of bricks they actually need
none of those worked
what are your solutions? could you solve the problems of real work life?
I'm at work at the moment(infinitely so because it's a 5 year project) and I was just wondering if you guys could help me.
Conundrum:
How do you motivate your brick layers to lay more bricks?
further insight:
I've been doing this for 4 years and have noticed a pattern. brick layers will only lay enough bricks to earn a minimum wage. this fact is ridiculous because the number of bricks in order to achieve minimum wage varies.
right now we are on our best project so far. brick layers only need to lay 500 bricks to earn minimum wage. usually it's double, 1000 bricks, yet now that they can make double the profit they refuse to lay more.
how do I get them to double their profit?
what I've already tried:
telling them how much they have made at the end of every day (publicly to shame the lower values)
monthly incentives to the bricky who laid the most bricks
monthly admonishments to lowest bricky
splitting the working force into teams and at the end of ever day telling them which team laid most (competition)
buying beers
setting daily goals
telling them they need double the amount of bricks they actually need
none of those worked
what are your solutions? could you solve the problems of real work life?
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