Creating a motivating environment is a key task of leader to reach the goals of an organization. A motivating environment contributes to business’ success. Supervisors, managers, and bosses that create motivating environments in a company are leaders. Parents and other members in a family unit perform as leaders to create a motivating environment to foster successful relationships and accomplish family goals. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the latter. The success of a family is abstract, but indicators such as education levels/performance, income, divorce rates, community involvement, and socioeconomic status, give insight to the health of a family’s relationship. Families use many of the same theories used in business to create
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Intrinsic rewards include self-satisfaction, sense of completion, and other internal mechanisms. Usborne, Lydon, & Taylor (2009) describes the ideal form of motivation follows the self-determination theory (SDT), which is a 4 stage process. SDT starts with amotivation, then externally regulated behavior, followed by introjection, and finally identified motivation. “SDT posits that intrinsic motivation and the relatively internalized or self-determined forms of extrinsic motivation are the most psychologically healthy and are associated with psychological well-being (Usborne, et al., …show more content…
Volunteering is a form of community serivce and therefore lacks traditional extrinsic rewards. Law & Shek (2009) argue volunteers are a product of their upbringing. “Volunteers know in their hearts that they volunteer for the sake of reward and sponsorship rather than the service itself” (Law & Shek, 2009). Volunteering is a choice, therefore the work chosen is preferred over a less desireable task. A neutral choice is to do nothing. If a person chooses to work, instead of doing nothing, then there is a motivator. One possible motivator may be a religious belief in self-sacrifice. On outward appearance, it may seem like a instrinsic motivator but the belief is rooted in self-sacrifice leads to reward in the afterlife, which is an extrinsic
Intrinsic rewards include self-satisfaction, sense of completion, and other internal mechanisms. Usborne, Lydon, & Taylor (2009) describes the ideal form of motivation follows the self-determination theory (SDT), which is a 4 stage process. SDT starts with amotivation, then externally regulated behavior, followed by introjection, and finally identified motivation. “SDT posits that intrinsic motivation and the relatively internalized or self-determined forms of extrinsic motivation are the most psychologically healthy and are associated with psychological well-being (Usborne, et al., …show more content…
Volunteering is a form of community serivce and therefore lacks traditional extrinsic rewards. Law & Shek (2009) argue volunteers are a product of their upbringing. “Volunteers know in their hearts that they volunteer for the sake of reward and sponsorship rather than the service itself” (Law & Shek, 2009). Volunteering is a choice, therefore the work chosen is preferred over a less desireable task. A neutral choice is to do nothing. If a person chooses to work, instead of doing nothing, then there is a motivator. One possible motivator may be a religious belief in self-sacrifice. On outward appearance, it may seem like a instrinsic motivator but the belief is rooted in self-sacrifice leads to reward in the afterlife, which is an extrinsic