Motivation for the 21st Century

Written on Monday, August 24, 2009 by Eva

External motivators were excellent for the 20th Century. Today, our habit of extrinsically motivating employees is no longer effective - instead of improving performance, the carrot and stick method creates a blockage to innovation. With increasing complexity in our workplace, it is no longer the case that you can increase the incentives to increase the performance.

Here's the video that explains the details:

Dan Pink makes the argument that Management --> Compliance and Autonomy --> Engagement. For ultimate performance in the 21st Century, people need jobs that are interesting and important. To create those jobs, provide employees with Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.

But how to repair the mismatch between What Science Knows and What Business Does?
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