In order to motivate a person to do something, generally we can use “carrot or stick” approach (see picture below).
In academic research, generally do you agreed “publish or perish” is a “stick” approach?
What do you think will be good examples of “carrot” approach to motivate researchers to conduct research?
I believe it should be motivation; this might be a promotion of "publish or perish" or" stick" or other allowances. If a person involves in academia or research, at least try to contribute to the field. It is my simple view.
"Do this or die." Yes, that's a threatened punishment ("stick"), all right.
Positive motivators? They fall into two groups. Most simply provide valued rewards for doing something. Examples would include better offices, more lab space, money to go to conferences, and so forth. So the more productive department members would enjoy a better quality of life as a result of their labors. This will keep them working, but won't actually make them love the work any more.
The trickiest task is to create genuine motivation - to get people to actually want to do the task for intrinsic reasons. Social rewards help here, but I think our levels of intrinsic motivation are often determined during our training experiences. The basic idea is to make the work fun in and of itself. The goal is to have people feel as Curt Richter did when he said, "I enjoy research more than eating." You might want to have a look at the achievement motivation literature from the 1950 - 1980 period, especially the work of David McClelland and John Atkinson.
The phrase is used to signify that an academic is expected to undertake research and to publish it in order to further their career.
Research typically forms part of an academic's job contract.
If an academic does not publish, they are not meeting the requirements of their job contract, and hence should lose their job, aka "perish".
Such is academic life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish
As I scientist I love the subject I study and keep the impact for our society correlated. It needs a paradigm change in the scientific community.... when I rock climb, I take every risk because I decided to do and I have to take the risks with a lot if passion...so intrinsic motivation is requested and that I expect from my students.
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