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Some days you're the manager.  Some days you're the employee.  And some days you just don't feel like coming in to work at all. Sound like you? A new study has found that struggling with those different identities at work may just affect your job performance. According to newswise.com, employees who believe their different identities enhance each other are more productive than others, the study found. But workers who feel their identities are in conflict see a hit to their performance.  “We tend to think of our work role identities one at a time, as if they were completely separate,” says Steffanie Wilk , co-author of the study and associate professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business . “But this research shows that the interactions are important. The way we manage and think about our different roles could be affecting how well we do our jobs.” People are familiar with the concept of identity confli...

Would you work harder if you got a raise, or a bonus?  Believe it or not, a new study shows that most people will only do it for a bonus. It's easy to see why.  Raises are something we expect.  Bonuses are gifts that, sometimes, come out of nowhere.  According to Tyler Falk at smartplanet.com, it's bonuses or unexpected cash gifts that motivate people to work harder. “We attribute this to the salience of the gift: It was obvious to them that we didn’t have to give this additional compensation, but that we had chosen to,” said Deepak Malhotra, a co-author of the study and professor at Harvard Business School, told the Harvard Gazette , Falk notes. “[The gift] signaled that we had done something nice for them which they may want to reciprocate.” "The. . . advantage of a bonus or gift instead of a raise is that a raise is permanent and becomes routine," Tony Mayo quotes Christopher Hsee, a professor at the Booth School of Business, in his blog. "The employee ...