Participants were encouraged by altruistic incentives such as community health improvement and organisational development but personal career incentives were weak.
Organ donation has been generally based on altruistic donation, however, incentives have also been considered as a means to increase donation rates [ 2].
One, drawing on social exchange theory, suggests that the decision to participate is a reasoned and calculated decision based on weighing perceived costs (e.g., time, privacy) and benefits (e.g., rewards, incentives, altruistic needs).
One reason 76 percent of citizens haven't already signed up as donors is that altruistic payback isn't incentive enough to face up to what many assume will be a pile of admin.
Second, in this study participants are receiving routine podiatry care outside of the trial and apart from altruistic reasons the only incentive to take part in the study is the possibility of receiving the extra package of podiatry care.
Further, altruistic behaviors are encouraged with incentive mechanisms.
The lesson is that notions of selfish, or indeed altruistic, preferences cannot explain the incentives of people in a village, school or parish.
Citizens would therefore be inclined to participate in the use of PetaJakarta, based on social incentives that encourage altruistic behaviours and the desire for safer communities.
After all, these days John Q. Public needs more of an incentive to donate besides altruistic tendencies and tax deductions.
This scenario corresponds to an ideal egalitarian participation in which citizens act altruistic and rewards are not an incentive for them to increase or decrease their summarization level.
