I'm guessing few would book a management consultant simply telling to pay people more money - consultants who want a job instead have to explain how to motivate for free.
But the people who share a lot of the blame for this idiocy and who have no good excuse are "heterodox economists" and TED talk presenters telling us how money doesn't motivate people past a certain point, or how it actually makes people less creative, all supposedly to criticize "capitalism" but in fact to make the market work worse for employees who now actually have to argue with management that yes, money does motivate them, with the manager replying "I know it doesn't so tell me what's really bothering you" or what-not. I mean it's not like companies seek less profit having seen the TED talk, instead they learn that they can cut expenses by avoiding "needless" raises. Quite the heterodoxy, that.
But the people who share a lot of the blame for this idiocy and who have no good excuse are "heterodox economists" and TED talk presenters telling us how money doesn't motivate people past a certain point, or how it actually makes people less creative, all supposedly to criticize "capitalism" but in fact to make the market work worse for employees who now actually have to argue with management that yes, money does motivate them, with the manager replying "I know it doesn't so tell me what's really bothering you" or what-not. I mean it's not like companies seek less profit having seen the TED talk, instead they learn that they can cut expenses by avoiding "needless" raises. Quite the heterodoxy, that.