motivation

I read an article of Business Week about assignment of new grads. Usually in large company, grads are assigned through managers' interviews and decision following the aim of the company. However, in the case of Cisco, their department are chosen by the grads. Then, it works well so far.

It is interesting in terms of motivation, and my illusion about hiring. Hiring is a kind of contract. Employees have to work for employers, so decision making has to depend on employers, in any case, but actually it is not necessary. The important thing is to make a profit as much as they can. Even profit might not be important anymore. Happy relationships between people must be the most important. During writing like that, I'm feeling something wrong. I might be in older paradigm.

Anyway, that must be true. Motivation is important for their performance. Of course, it might not always be the best answer, but it is a large part of improving performance, at least for the new paradigm of working.