Are most employees motivated by extrinsic rewards rather than intrinsic motivation?
Introduction
The quote, “If you must have motivation, think of your pay check on Friday.” by Noel Coward, seems to be one many people would be able to relate to. Motivation is defined as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. In other words, motivation is the reason why anyone does anything. A pay check is an example of an extrinsic motivator, which causes people to push or perform a certain behavior based on the potential external rewards that may be received as a result. Extrinsic motivation brings rewards such as points, candy, compliments or praises, punishment, money, test …show more content…
By helping intrinsic motivation develop within individuals, it can require special and lengthy preparation (DeLong and Winter). Every person in the world is different; therefore, an employer must have a variety of approaches to motivate each individual employee. It helps to know the interests of employees, because then employers would know how to motivate each employee, but that require getting to know each person individually. That would require a lot of time and money. With intrinsic motivation, employees must be able to challenge themselves and accomplish new tasks, have choices over what they do, work with and help other and be happy at work and like their job. While most employees throughout the nation exemplify a few of these characteristics, most people are not intrinsically motivated, and prefer having external rewards in order to push them to do good work. Abraham Maslow compares intrinsic motivation to the self-actualization level in his Hierarchy of Needs. When an individual reaches self-actualization, which is a person 's need to be and do that which the person was "born to do.” In other words, self-actualization is met when all a person’s needs are fulfilled …show more content…
Due to the fact that employees, who are intrinsically motivated, motivate themselves from within because they have interest or are satisfied in their work, employers will not have to constantly worry about rewarding the employees in order for them to do good work, or do the work at all. However, the way the United States operates, more people are motivated based on extrinsic rewards. Based on how the economy is today, more people dislike their jobs, because extrinsic rewards have been removed from organizations due to the financial crisis the nation is in. If more people were motivated intrinsically, they would be satisfied with their jobs even though their pay has been decreased, or incentives have been
Introduction
The quote, “If you must have motivation, think of your pay check on Friday.” by Noel Coward, seems to be one many people would be able to relate to. Motivation is defined as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. In other words, motivation is the reason why anyone does anything. A pay check is an example of an extrinsic motivator, which causes people to push or perform a certain behavior based on the potential external rewards that may be received as a result. Extrinsic motivation brings rewards such as points, candy, compliments or praises, punishment, money, test …show more content…
By helping intrinsic motivation develop within individuals, it can require special and lengthy preparation (DeLong and Winter). Every person in the world is different; therefore, an employer must have a variety of approaches to motivate each individual employee. It helps to know the interests of employees, because then employers would know how to motivate each employee, but that require getting to know each person individually. That would require a lot of time and money. With intrinsic motivation, employees must be able to challenge themselves and accomplish new tasks, have choices over what they do, work with and help other and be happy at work and like their job. While most employees throughout the nation exemplify a few of these characteristics, most people are not intrinsically motivated, and prefer having external rewards in order to push them to do good work. Abraham Maslow compares intrinsic motivation to the self-actualization level in his Hierarchy of Needs. When an individual reaches self-actualization, which is a person 's need to be and do that which the person was "born to do.” In other words, self-actualization is met when all a person’s needs are fulfilled …show more content…
Due to the fact that employees, who are intrinsically motivated, motivate themselves from within because they have interest or are satisfied in their work, employers will not have to constantly worry about rewarding the employees in order for them to do good work, or do the work at all. However, the way the United States operates, more people are motivated based on extrinsic rewards. Based on how the economy is today, more people dislike their jobs, because extrinsic rewards have been removed from organizations due to the financial crisis the nation is in. If more people were motivated intrinsically, they would be satisfied with their jobs even though their pay has been decreased, or incentives have been