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Bonuses--Not Raises--Boost Employee Performance Bosses hoping to motivate employees to work harder may want to trade merit-based raises for performance-based bonuses, suggests a Cornell University study. The four-year study which tracked more than 700 workers found that a 1 percent increase in pay gener... Continue reading Bonuses--Not Raises--Boost Employee Performance
To Buy or Not to Buy: Brain Chemistry May Make the Call Stanford University psychologists are using brain images to learn more about why some people are impulse shoppers and others have an easier time holding on to their dough. Experimental subjects were given $40 and the option to keep the money or to buy vari... Continue reading To Buy or Not to Buy: Brain Chemistry May Make the Call
It's Not How Much You Earn, But How You Spend It Money can buy happiness--if you spend it on other people. Research from the current edition of the journal Science shows that even for people with little to spend, the greater percentage of income used for charity or gifts, the greater levels of personal happiness. Continue reading It's Not How Much You Earn, But How You Spend It
Sad People Willing to Spend More Money Feeling glum drives spending for a specific type of individual, shows research by social psychologists at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities. Continue reading Sad People Willing to Spend More Money |
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