A talking chair
A company adopts flat management and advocates "open door office", that is, the door of the management office should always be open, so that employees can report to work at any time. Later, all the managers and directors simply left the independent office and sat among the employees.
In order to distinguish, the seats above the manager level are equipped with leather boss chairs, which can be reclined and lie down during lunch breaks, which is more comfortable than the mesh seats of ordinary employees.
Later, when collecting incentive suggestions, someone suggested that in addition to winning bonuses and trophies, the sales crown can also reward the boss chair. The boss thought it was a good way to motivate, so he agreed. So the administration purchased a batch of boss chairs and put them in the warehouse, and used them when someone was promoted or won a sales title.
So everyone in the company knows that this chair represents honor, status and power.
A few years later, due to the growth of the company's business, a group of managers were promoted. In order to motivate everyone, the boss lowered the level of use of the boss chair to the supervisor level. So at a glance, there are boss chairs everywhere in the company. Many employees feel that this kind of chair is comfortable to sit on, so they often negotiate conditions with the leader when the leader makes a request, and take the opportunity to ask the chair to come and sit by themselves.
Later, due to personnel changes, a group of managers were downsized, and the seats were vacated, and the chairs were just left there. Some employees felt that it was still dusty, so they used it. And because of the change of personnel in the administrative personnel department, for a long period of time, the administrative personnel no longer took care of the chair. Due to management reasons, everyone's admiration and admiration for this chair has gradually decreased, and its symbolic meaning has almost disappeared.
I don't know how long it has passed, but one day the personnel department sent the chair back to the warehouse again, probably to ensure the symbolic meaning of the chair. This wave of operations has attracted a wave of complaints from employees, who feel that the company is too hypocritical, not just a chair. Some people even bought the same chair with their own money because they were upset.
Once a new employee came, and the seat assigned by the HR administration happened to be the one that the original manager had sat in. The chair was naturally a luxurious boss chair. Three days later, the administrator came over suddenly, gave him an ordinary office chair, and specifically stated that "you are not qualified to sit in this kind of boss chair for the time being." The mood of the new employee at that time can be imagined, puzzled and speechless, thinking in his heart, "Is the company so formalistic?"
There are still several lawsuits about this chair, which means that the feudal dynasty forcibly dealt with it in order to consolidate the imperial power regardless of the wishes of the people. After many times, it made everyone unhappy, and then the chair returned to its original purpose, which is a more comfortable chair. Due to its high price, only executives have it.
Leaving aside whether it is correct to use chairs as an incentive method, there are obviously problems with the later implementation and management. When a transaction is endowed with value other than basic functions, it needs a complete set of systems and rules to support it, otherwise it will not only fail to play its due role, but may also cause adverse effects due to improper handling.
