Project Team: Autonomy Motivation

Motivation is used to affect the behavior of the projects team members to achieve a projects goal and objective. On one of the projects I have worked, the projects team members were motivated on the premises of autonomy or intrinsic factors. Autonomy is motivation through self-direction. As to intrinsic motivation factors, motivation comes from within a person through the results of the work itself. The reason intrinsic factors or autonomy motivation was the best influence in this project was the team was developing performance requirement (Lussier & Achua, 2013). In developing performance requirements for this system, the team members were challenged to think outside of the box, which is an intrinsic factor. Additionally the team members were doing something they wanted to do and could take ownership of the performance requirements (Lussier & Achua, 2013). If extrinsic factors were to be considered as a motivation for this project then the team member’s motivation would have come from the job itself. Trying to apply extrinsic factors such as pay or working conditions did not apply to this specific project, as the project was to develop a set of performance requirements. Considering this was a government project team, job security was already in …show more content…
First, there is the institution of new rituals or such things as taking the team bowling or to a movie. The simplest option for a project manager is to give a pep talk like a coach. When these informal options do not work, a project manger may need to pursue a more formal means to rejuvenating the project team. Options that are more formal can include hiring in a consultant. However, a consultant should not be considered to fix a team where the project manager has failed or is unwilling to fix a problem. A consultant can use a variety of team building events to increase the team’s performance (Larson & Gray,