Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Re: Performance Monitoring Message-ID: <718@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 13:14:14 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.718 Posted: Mon Oct 6 13:14:14 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 03:54:58 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!chris@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 14 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <681@hplabsc.UUCP> This article is from Chris Torek and was received on Mon Oct 6 08:16:08 1986 > ... 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. > [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?] The answer, from a purely practical standpoint, is already in the text above. Fear makes people perform better---for a while. Afterward, yet greater measures are required. In addition, it tends to make people `vote with their feet': if conditions are unsatisfactory, they leave.