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money is not a motivator. (Herzberg)
There it is. Anyway i just feel like spouting out IB Business information.
Motivation in the workplace has been analyzed by researchers in the social science field and a number of them have become rather prevalent among knowledge to hold about the workplace in general.
This is about the workplace, but i am sure it can be extended to other aspects of life easily.
Herzberg says there are two types of motivators, hygiene factors, and motivating factors. Hygiene factors include that which is expected and do not motivate. This means money, shelter, security, etc. Motivating factors include things like self-actualization for the person, betterment for the company etc. A shared feeling that motivates its employees to work harder.
Then most people know Maslow's hierachy of needs. As you attain the steps of the pyramid, they cease to become motivating factors anymore and revert to hygiene factors. In this way, money is not a motivating factor becuase it is never permanent. It only satisfies and motivates for a certain amount of time, temporary. The bottom of the pyramid covers physiological needs, and the top most business classes only discuss as the very top as "self-actualization." That being to actualize one's own potential is the greatest motivating factor. On Maslow's original pyramid there was another step to the pyramid, and that was "spirituality." But, that is not taught in business classrooms for obvious reasons.
The hawthorne studies showed that people will work harder when they know they are being watched. Meaning, surveillance = motivation, or whatever terms you would like to put it in.
McGregor's Theory X and Y kind of apply. They both describe different types of workers. Theory X is a worker who does not want to work, adn needs to be told what to do. Theory Y describes a worker who loves to work, who wants to work, and does not need to be told what to do. Who wants more responsibility, etc.
Ouchi's Theory Z describes a worker who is motivated to work for a company out of loyalty for that business. This describes more eastern workplaces, where one stays with the company throughout all the bad times for the sake of loyalty or wahtever. So that is another motivating factor, seemingly not connected to fear at all.
Then there is another person i forgot, but he describes two types of benefits an employee receives. They are intrinsic and extrinsic benefits. Intrinsic benefits are things such as self-esteem, feeling satisfaction for doing something, not physica things. Extrinsic benefits include money, and things that are given to the person for doing something.
Anyway, i hope this is some sort of template that can be extended to other aspects of life. Wow, i am bored haha. School is gone and i am bringing it back 
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05-12-2003 08:16 PM
