The method of the carrot and the stick: how to use it in different spheres of life?

The method of the carrot and stick is often used in differentspheres of life. Personnel management, upbringing, relations are all areas where methods of encouragement and punishment are relevant. However, if we talk about the carrot and stick, then everything is somewhat more complicated than simply to encourage and punish. What is this complexity and how to apply this method in practice, we consider in the publication.

Excursion to the history

The method of the carrot and stick (more common asmethod of praise and punishment) is a special technique that helps to achieve the desired actions from others through influence. This method is often used in pedagogical education, politics and personnel management.

The phrase "stick and carrot" exists even inforeign vocabulary, albeit in a modified form. In Russian journalistic publications this expression appeared at the end of the 19th century, and its first formulation sounded like a "whip and a stick". That is, it was a literal translation of the proverb from the German language.

In English, the expression will sound like "carrot and stick." They are associated with the only ways that affect the stubborn donkey and cause it to move.

This method of motivation is the oldest, worthonly remember the period of slavery, when the whip (in the most direct manifestation), was the driving force that made a person work. Already much later, Frederick Taylor, the founder of the scientific organization of labor, put forward a proposal to improve efficiency through incentives. Although now this method is not so effective.

Why does the method not work?

The method of the carrot and stick was studied in different spheres. He gained special importance in the eyes of sociologists and social psychologists. The impact of this method could not be called stable and reliable. In some conditions, the "stick and carrot" produce the expected results, while in others - the opposite.

The psychologist and sociologist Douglas McGregor explainedthis is because when a person is not provided with food and safety, which are basic needs, the method of the carrot and stick is excellent. But in the case when the basic needs are fully secured, higher level desires begin to emerge, which is completely incompatible with this method of motivation. As a result, it becomes inefficient.

In each sphere, the stick and stick method works and manifests itself in different ways, and in order to understand how it should be used and how it is not necessary, we will consider separately each of the spheres of human activity.

Relations

The method of the carrot and stick in the relationship is oftenmanifests itself in the form of manipulation, especially if one of the partners is not confident enough. It often looks like a game of feelings. Inept management of such a "game" often threatens with a break. If you constantly "give a cake", then the partner will become too sweet, and this monotony will ruin him. And when the partner does not see anything except the whip, it's just unbearable.

And before applying this method, you need to think again, for what purposes it will be used and whether such behavior is acceptable.

Methods of manipulation in relationships

The method of a carrot and a stick with a man in the mainis to approach and distance from it. Since men are naturally hunters and conquerors, it is much more interesting for them to be in a state of slight intrigue. From this thesis, we should proceed in the application of the carrot and the stick in the relationship:

• The total should be a little bit, and the ratio of the carrot and stick should be 1: 7. That is, from time to time a young person needs to do a little shake-up in the relationship.
• The punishment may be a lack of customary encouragement.
• Good behavior or positive changes are encouraged constantly and systematically.

But the main thing is to remember: before you throw yourself against a partner with a whip, you need to think about the situation and try to build a dialogue, and start best with yourself.

Work in a company

This method of motivation is simple and at the same timecomplicated. It is especially difficult to use it in a work collective, where each employee should have his own approach. Now people are more focused on self-realization and self-development, so if something is wrong, then no carrots will keep it. In general, employees are divided into 4 main types:

• Lovers of money. Employees get a job only because they pay their salaries "transparently."
• Enthusiast. A person goes to work simply because he likes a certain thing.
• The ideological patron. Such an employee prefers to work in a coherent, friendly team and "for the idea." And if they pay for it, then he is generally in the seventh heaven with happiness (such people also meet).
• The townsfolk. Do only what is written in the contract of employment: no more and no less. Work for them is comparable to serving time.

"Gingerbread" to each employee

In connection with these features, the method of the whip andgingerbread from the head should be for everyone different. For example, representatives of the first group will leave the company with an easy heart on the same day, when they will delay the salary or payment will not be made transparently enough. Enthusiasts will do the work for 100%, they are professionals of their business, it is important for them not only to pay wages, but respect and acceptance of them properly. They do not tolerate authoritarian leadership in any form, the "whip" in relation to such employees must hang in a distant and dark closet.

The ideological backers go to work. For the sake of work they will not be difficult to lend money if they delay the salary, and continue working without slowing down the pace. But in order not to lose such valuable workers, they should be praised as often as possible, then they will work harder. "People" are mostly people who know the process of doing business from the inside, so with the main leadership, such employees are negotiating, and if they get an agreement, then they become good employees, and if not, the firm may have a serious competitor.

The method of the carrot and stick in the upbringing of children

And the most difficult thing is to use this method ineducational process. A person is not a computer program that must perform a certain action under the specified conditions. The method of education with a whip and a stick is unacceptable in modern society, in other words, it is considered non-pedagogical. After all, if a child is punished for inappropriate actions, he will stop trusting others, and if he encourages too much, he will grow up to be an egoist. In addition, the stick and carrot is one of the ways to impose their standards, and if you use it without certain knowledge, it turns into a simple manipulation.

As for education, the method of carrots and stickIt is used by nature itself in the process of personality development. If the child touches the hot plate, it will certainly burn and next time will be more careful. And if the parent, trying to prevent a burn, yelling at the child (whip), then he only postpones the inevitable. In the process of education it is important to explain why and why the child is praised, and why they are punished. The method of the carrot and stick in this segment is based on the reasoned explanation of adults.

conclusions

Thus, we can conclude that the methodcarrot and stick will always take place in different spheres of human activity. Depending on the human needs, new techniques will be created to influence the performance and motivation of the individual. The method of carrot and stick is not only a targeted system of rewards and punishments set by someone, but a technology that needs to be approached wisely and applied according to the situation. Only the effectiveness of the carrot and the sweetness of the gingerbread depends on this.