HIRE FOR PASSION
People who love the work require fewer conventional forms of compensation for doing more of it.
Select employees who describe the work as a calling. Give them extra hours, unpleasant assignments and responsibilities outside the role because these provide additional opportunities to do what they love. Treat objections as evidence that the original passion may have been overstated.
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Unfortunately, the research…
Claim
Experimental research shows that observers can judge poor treatment as more legitimate when workers are perceived as passionate, partly because people assume passionate workers would volunteer or view the work itself as reward.
Evidence
Across multiple studies and a meta-analysis, researchers found that attributions of worker passion increased the perceived legitimacy of asking workers to perform extra unpaid or demeaning work.
Strength: Strong
Sources
The Directive is satire. The research summary is not. Evidence is stated separately and qualified to the underlying literature rather than treated as proof of the joke.