Advice for When You Apply These Ideas
Remember this advice when rewarding your direct reports: rewards complement intrinsic motivation, but response might vary for employees.
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Countless management books and articles take the position that your employees are waiting to be “motivated.” That they are passive entities, sitting around, doing nothing of any value, until you as their manager come by with a program or a bonus plan or a speech or something that will get them to jump up, shout out an “OOO-RAH” and get to work. It’s a popular, but deeply flawed, way of ...