In
chapter 5 we have been talking about intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. This
article shows the importance of these in the workplace. The article mentions
that having employees who are intrinsically motivated will be better for the company
in the long run because they will be more apt to work and find more joy in
their work. This article does a good job of explaining what motivation is and
why it is important to have in the workplace.
The
article mentions three main ways to extrinsically motivate employees. The first
way is with a promise of some sort of reward. I think this is definitely a
motivation. In a past job I had, we were promised a "bonus" if we got so many
products out by the end of the day and it motivated the team to work harder. The
second way mentioned was by offering the opportunity for growth. For someone
who is very ambitious and wants to move up in the company this is a great
motivator. The third way that they mentioned was giving the employee recognition.
I have always been motivated when given recognition for good work that I have done.
I found this article to be very interesting, and consistent with what we've been learning in this class as well as my organizational psychology class. Although every workplace has established extrinsic rewards (the most important reason to work is for a source of income), additional rewards can improve the workplace and employee motivation. Workers are highly motivated to perform well when there is possibility for individual recognition or evaluation. Recognition or evaluation is an effective form of extrinsic motivation and feedback that can also inspire the beginnings of intrinsic motivation in a worker.
Intrinsic motivation is the more valuable of the two types of motivation because it can be sustained longer and is generally a stronger form of motivation. Feedback on job performance in the form of recognition or evaluation helps a worker begin to internalize the desire to perform well and gives him or her pride in job performance.
Please read the following link:http://www.psychologicalscience.com/kim_maclin/2010/01/i-learned-it-at-the-movies.html as well as the 3 resource links at the bottom of that article.This semester's movies:Teen DreamsCast…
I found this article to be very interesting, and consistent with what we've been learning in this class as well as my organizational psychology class. Although every workplace has established extrinsic rewards (the most important reason to work is for a source of income), additional rewards can improve the workplace and employee motivation. Workers are highly motivated to perform well when there is possibility for individual recognition or evaluation. Recognition or evaluation is an effective form of extrinsic motivation and feedback that can also inspire the beginnings of intrinsic motivation in a worker.
Intrinsic motivation is the more valuable of the two types of motivation because it can be sustained longer and is generally a stronger form of motivation. Feedback on job performance in the form of recognition or evaluation helps a worker begin to internalize the desire to perform well and gives him or her pride in job performance.