Social Incentive Examples
1 Based on the reading define the term incentive.
An incentive is a greater purpose or reason for doing an action, or completing some sort of work. For example someone might be more inclined to study for a test, or to clean their room if they were offered a reward after they did it.
2 Explain the difference between a, economic incentive, moral incentive, and social incentive.
An Economic Incentive is something that effects the economy or the public. For example in the article they used “ adding a 3 dollar sin tax to cigarettes.
Social Incentive is something that would effect a place where people go to hang out with their friends.
Moral incentive would be something that effects us emotionally. For example if someone else is stealing and we know about it, and not doing anything about it would be against our morals. Or acting upon something because it is within our morals.
3 What, if any, are some other types of incentives? Please explain.
I think another incentive could be if there is a reward in place. For example at work if you get the most credit …show more content…
I knew that there was a significant amount of cheating when it comes to the academic world whether is it intentional or not. However I didn’t really think of it in the aspect of the business world. In the article it had been said, “managers would go in to the computer system and take off some of the employees time so that their numbers were better”. However after reading that it did remind me of something that I would call cheating knowing that definition. When I used to work at a pizza shop there was one supervisor who would shut down the computer system and when he did that it would clock all of us out sometimes more than 30 minutes before we actually left. At the time I didn’t think that it was cheating, but looking back at it that would be him trying to make his numbers better for when the owner would look at our clock in and out
An incentive is a greater purpose or reason for doing an action, or completing some sort of work. For example someone might be more inclined to study for a test, or to clean their room if they were offered a reward after they did it.
2 Explain the difference between a, economic incentive, moral incentive, and social incentive.
An Economic Incentive is something that effects the economy or the public. For example in the article they used “ adding a 3 dollar sin tax to cigarettes.
Social Incentive is something that would effect a place where people go to hang out with their friends.
Moral incentive would be something that effects us emotionally. For example if someone else is stealing and we know about it, and not doing anything about it would be against our morals. Or acting upon something because it is within our morals.
3 What, if any, are some other types of incentives? Please explain.
I think another incentive could be if there is a reward in place. For example at work if you get the most credit …show more content…
I knew that there was a significant amount of cheating when it comes to the academic world whether is it intentional or not. However I didn’t really think of it in the aspect of the business world. In the article it had been said, “managers would go in to the computer system and take off some of the employees time so that their numbers were better”. However after reading that it did remind me of something that I would call cheating knowing that definition. When I used to work at a pizza shop there was one supervisor who would shut down the computer system and when he did that it would clock all of us out sometimes more than 30 minutes before we actually left. At the time I didn’t think that it was cheating, but looking back at it that would be him trying to make his numbers better for when the owner would look at our clock in and out