Inappropriate institutionalized reward systems

Organizations and institutions with internal reward systems that operate in terms of criteria unrelated to the social problems that the institution is mandated to deal with tend to encourage personnel to formulate policies and approve projects which fail to respond to such social problems.

1. It has been suggested that the reason that the World Bank has failed to give any priority to population control in practice is that personnel are rewarded, and achieve status, by committing large sums of money to construction projects. Population projects call for smaller amounts of capital investment and require lengthy and extensive dialogue. This offers little incentive within a bureaucracy whatever the declared policy commitments.

1. Unavailability of effective motivational techniques

1. Rewarding inaction
2. Inadequate access to negotiation on employment and reward

1. Unethical personnel practices
2. Short-range planning for long-term development
3. Inadequate research on proposed solutions to problems
4. Abusive sales techniques

1. Market research subservient to sales

1. Institutionalizing reward systems

1. Unproductivity
2. Inappropriateness
3. Counterproductivity
4. Counter-reformation
5. Chastity-Indecency
6. Appropriateness-Inappropriateness
7. Timeliness-Untimeliness
8. Taste-Vulgarity
9. Expedience-Inexpedience
10. Representation-Misrepresentation
11. Dueness-Undueness
12. Rightness-Wrongness
13. Elegance-Inelegance