Organizational Behavior

Apart money and advantages, what is the others criteria that

determines motivation in work?

“Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not.”

Lee J. Colan, 7 Defining Moments

Introduction:

What's the first thing that determines our behavior?

Undoubtedly it is certainly the motivation that governed the human behavior, even when we speak about the primary needs. For example, we have to drink and to eat to stay alive, but the motivation will plays in how we do it. Motivation will determine the engagement and so the energy we dedicated to these actions. But nothing is strange like the motivation, and since the Greek Platon many theories have emerged. If the Greek philosophy considers the pursuit of happiness like the key-factor of motivation in our modern society this process has become more complex. Like we see in the course of Organizational Behavior, today we consider two kind of motivation according to Herzberg: the intrinsic (like the enjoyment) and the extrinsic motivation (the most famous is money, reward).

The concept of motivation finds all his interest in the business world, and it is quite understandable. The motivation determines the quantity and the quality of work that can be done. The Taylorism and the Fordism, two scientific model of management, up money as first tool to motivate the employees. But we know today that money is more a criteria of satisfaction than motivation. This suggest that today’s employee, don’t work only for earn their life, but for something other. This sentence brings me to my problem.

Apart money and advantages, what is the others criteria that determines motivation in work?

As we can see motivation is a complex thing, and there is may be as many types of motivation that people on earth. I do not pretend that I can identify a 5,000 problem’s older, but I will try with the