Good employees want to be measured. What could be more disheartening than shooting a hole in one while playing golf by yourself! Not only do good employees want to be measured, they also want to be rewarded fairly for what they do. As simple and basic as all that sounds, we still have thousands of contractors who are not doing this. Why would any employee continue to go the extra mile when nobody even notices?
Unfortunately, someone actually does notice above-average performance — all the others on the jobsite who for whatever reason don’t do more than they need to. The most effective demotivator is peer pressure. Brown nose, rate buster, suck up, butt kisser, company man, goody-goody two shoes and golden boy are just some epitaphs fit to print. It’s not hard to understand why a proud, hard-working craftsman would slow down just to be accepted by his peers.