Readers Respond: How's Your Work Motivation?

Every person is motivated by something. Whether this motivation comes from people and activities you love like family, hobbies, eating, volunteering, or work, you experience motivation. Work motivation depends on your work environment, your personal needs from work, and whether the interaction of these needs with your work environment supports the accomplishment of your goals. How's your work motivation? What motivates you at work?

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What motivates you?

Mutual respect and trust, transparency in action and communication, ability to empathise and inspire. All this is futile if not backed up by good MONEY.

—Guest ashok k.

What motivates me....

To motivate: you get more of the behavior you want; if you punish, you get less of it. Once you get above rudimentary cognitive skills, the rewards don’t work with simple incentives as would be assumed. For simple straight-forward tasks, clarity did well. But the more complicated the task, with more conceptual thinking, the worse people did. FACT: Money motivates at work…but it needs to be enough to be motivating. Pay enough so people aren’t worried or thinking about the money. Then it works. But what works the best? Top three things to motivate employees: autonomy, mastery and purpose are the three tops factors to motivate people. It’s about being satisfied and rewarding in the accomplishment itself. People doing highly technically challenging work, who already have jobs and do this extra, technically-sophisticated work on their own time. Why? Because they are being given something more rewarding - a sense of accomplishment. Link to free packet:http://www.pcg-services.com/at

—Guest Dana Costantino

Motivation

When my work is recognized by my boss, with appreciation from him, I am motivated.

—Guest Kanthimathinathan

Motivation

More responsibilities and accomplishing them as a a team. Cohesive working environment and has essential equipment to use for job.

—Guest shalom

Motivation

Something that will make me stay, love and enjoy my work.

—Guest cheyser

What motivates you?

Trust, recognition and empowerment. Working together with colleagues with everyone sharing ideas and thus reaching the desired goal.

—Guest Fely N.Halili

Motivation

For me several things are important to be motivated: attention and interest in what I am doing; challenging work that makes my blood running; autonomy and freedom; true and open atmosphere/communication where I can work easily and comfortably; respect and recognition both financial and non-financial; keeping promises.

—Guest BS

Motivate

There are some motivations which suit to me. Respect, recognition, promotion letter, wage increase which will inspire me to work hard.

—Guest AYM

Motivation

I am motivated by having the responsibilities that match my position and challenged above my position for growth. Being stagnant demotivates me. Also, having good communication within your department and company. If you are always in the dark, how can you be motivated? It demotivates me if I am not informed and find out after the fact.

—Guest kdj

Motivation

Money and in that case, salary, determines the extent of how much you will get from your employees. So, regardless of any form of motivation, nothing will work if the pay is below market rates.

—Guest Fumdi mnoma

Motivation

Motivation is all about pleasure and respect, come and deliver to the job and from the jobs. It may be different from person to person and the level of the employee. There are some common things which motive the employee. 1.Security 2.Companation (Companionship?) 3.Benefit 4.Designation (Respect) 5.Management interested in employees' personal life. 6.Link to company growth with the help of personal growth. Please reply and give me the feed back to my response. Thanks

—Guest jayesh

Motivation sucks!!!

When you are expecting from work-life balance and you are put into a project where there is hardly any work....that sucks. It does not motivate to work anymore.

—Guest Rajat

Basic Motivation Factor for Us

For me, the basic motivation factor is money (salary). In our Asian country, there are a lot of SMEs and those SMEs haven't a well structured compensation and benefits package. Most earned low salary compared to the local market rate. From my 4-5 yrs experiences in HR field, most employees resign from the job due to low salary which is not enough for their basic needs. The second reason is due to an immediate boss's bad management style or unfair relations among and between co-workers. So, fair salary and a good climate of work are the main motivation factors to employees (Every level).

—Guest Moe Myint Sandar Oo

Office Manager

Running a successful dental practice in a professional, happy, team envirorment. The satisfaction of this.

—Guest rosemary

What is motivation

For me, I have alway worked for my passion and myself but it will be divided one by one. First is money, because when I have money, I can make a stable life and then work towards a better life. When my life is certainly stable, I will do it for other things. Then I will work for my hobby or others, for example: children, friends, social reasons.

—Guest Hoach