Today is May 17 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you understand what motivates you to move forward?”
In his 1967 publication, The Motivation to Work, Frederick Herzberg identified two different categories of factors affecting the motivation to work: hygiene and motivation.
Hygiene factors include extrinsic factors like technical supervision, interpersonal relations, physical working conditions, salary, company policies and administrative practices, benefits, and job security.
In comparison, motivation factors include intrinsic factors such as achievement, recognition and status, responsibility, challenging work, and advancement in the organization.
Herzberg’s theory postulates that only motivation factors have the potential of increasing job satisfaction. The results indicate that the association between salary and job satisfaction is very weak. When employees are focused on external rewards, the effects of intrinsic motives on engagement are significantly diminished.
This means that employees who are intrinsically motivated are three times more engaged than employees who are extrinsically motivated (such as by money).
Quite simply, you’re more likely to like your job if you focus on the work itself, and less likely to enjoy it if you’re focused on money.”
As Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic noted in the Harvard Business Review: "The more people focus on their salaries, the less they will focus on satisfying their intellectual curiosity, learning new skills, or having fun, and those are the very things that make people perform best."
American basketball player, coach and executive Pat Riley noted “A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.”
What motivates you above and beyond winning?