– Frederick Herzberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n
or in other words: “Even with food, shelter, and company, people will always be unhappy with #firstworldproblems.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nCoordinating a group of people is difficult. This is natural and will be natural until humans figure out a way to share a single brain. (Borg?) But often corporations and managers find that even when they get the infinite details figured of who does what in which manner, employees still won\u2019t work. They aren\u2019t motivated. They don\u2019t want<\/em> to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So we \u201cmotivate\u201d them, with threats and cajoles. I\u2019ll fire you if you don\u2019t work. I\u2019ll give you more money, so please work. Corporations see a short-term spike in productivity, but often within a few years (or the same year), the same old problems arise. Workers don\u2019t want to work. Again. Even after all that money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Frederick Herzberg, Father of the Job Enrichment theory, we\u2019re confusing movement with motivation. Yes, the employees are working more. But they aren\u2019t working because they want to; they\u2019re responding to our actions (threats\/rewards), or as Herzberg defines it, KIDAs (Kick in the A\u2026). At the end of the day, the managers are the one who are motivated. The workers are just moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LEARN ABOUT: <\/strong>Employee Rewards Ideas for Employee Engagement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t