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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc
Subject: Re: Performance Monitoring
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 13:51:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 13:51:07 1986
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This article is from well!mandel@hplabs.HP.COM (Thomas F. Mandel)
 and was received on Sun Sep 28 22:35:59 1986
 
>Productivity will increase if people are being told they're being
>monitored..even if they're not.  (A paraphrase...)

True.  Fear is a powerful motivating factor.  It even gets me to
perform "better" for a while.  Of course, almost any other motivating
factor is better and more ethical.

Tom Mandel 	ARPA:  mandel@sri-kl.arpa 	UUCP:  hplabs!well!mandel

[But, as the question goes, WHY is it not ethical to run a place based on
 fear of performance monitoring?  It's obvious that it's unsavory, but WHY?
							  -- Dave]