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When Economic Incentives Backfire which appeared in the March 2009 issue of Harvard Business Review examines another dimension of the same issue -namely the economic incentives that organizations design to motivate employees to achieve goals and targets. This is more than a hot topic today with the AIG incentive bonus issue in the forefront of news and commentary around the country. The author, Samuel Bowles, is a behavioral scientist at the Santa Fe Institute who reports briefly on evidence about how financial incentives influence moral sensibilities and behaviors. Or, conversely, how human nature influences the behavior of incentive programs. And the picture, similar to that for goals, is not always what you might predict in ways that are particularly relevant to health care leaders...

THIS SPECIAL GUEST POST WAS AUTHORED BY Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD MBA who writes the Managing Health Care Costs blog. A more complete bio can be found at the end of this post. Please click on the link below to read this provocative piece...