Accepting A Reward In Daniel Pink's Drive

In our society today, we need to make a living. Everyone needs money to survive, and would be willing to go to great lengths to earn their satisfaction income, like sacrificing their happiness. In Daniel Pink’s novel, Drive, he claims, “By offering a reward, a principal signals to the agent that the task is undesirable” (Pink 52). When a reward is used as an external reward, the person loses intrinsic interest in the job they’re doing. Being a doctor can make a satisfactory income. Doctors dislike their jobs because this reward also has its’ punishments to this profession, which gives workers a scare, causes a lot of stress, and is very time consuming, thus making the task undesirable. Daniel Pink’s quote portrays that when a reward is involved
In the article, Only 6 percent of doctors are happy with their jobs, states, “To earn a $150,000 to $200,000 salary, which is a healthy salary that primary-care doctors make, you have to run on a treadmill. You’re seeing 25 to 30 patients a day” (Kliff 4). In this article Sarah Kliff states that for a doctor to earn a healthy income they must see many patients in a single day, which can be tiring, and very terrifying to a single doctor, to handle so many patients. When Kliff says, “[...] you have to run on a treadmill,” she means that a doctor has to go from one patient to another with no breaks, they’re running a marathon that never stops. In order to earn that healthy income what they have to do everyday “is often appalling” (Kliff 4). In the article, Why Do So Many Doctors Regret Their Job Choice, Adams states that many doctors are concerned about how they will be paid under the Affordable Care Act. This horror of how doctors will be paid under this new Care Act, illustrates that losing money, is a big concern and is one of the fear factors of how the task can become unwanted to the employee. Sarah Kliff, the writer of the article, Only 6 percent of doctors are happy with their jobs, states
The amount of time consumption this job has with paperwork, and etc... can be very aggravating. In the Forbes article, Why Do So Many Doctors Regret Their Job Choice?, it states, “33% of doctors spend more than 10 hours a week on paperwork and administration”, and Korn says, “It’s a crushing burden that no doctor enjoys.” The amount of time spent on paperwork within a week is truly “a crushing burden”(“Why Do So Many Doctors Regret Their Job Choice” 2), but is one of the reasons why money can make the profession of a doctor undesirable. Though to many doctors the amount of paperwork can be aggravating, to some Also in the article, Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession, Jauhar says that 84% of doctors stated, they didn’t have enough time to spend with their patients because of paperwork [...]” (Jauhar 2). The amount of time doctors spend on the paperwork for insurance companies to deny payments, can also lead to the decline of the reward, which can make the job of a doctor unpleasant. The task set for the worker is very wretched, due to the fact that the amount of paperwork done by doctors for insurance companies can lower the time spent with patients. The reward of the doctor [money] is one of the weakness’ for the reasons of earning a healthy income making the task