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HRM: Motivational theories - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Remove the 'hygiene' factors first.
      - Focus on motivation and job enrichment.
      - Talk to employees and team members.
      - Be an example.
      - Give a voice to employees.
- - - - Pink describes mastery as the desire to continually improve at something that matters.
      - Pink argues that humans love to "get better at stuff" - they enjoy the satisfaction from personal achievement and progress. Allowing employees to enjoy a sense of progress at work contributes to their inner drive.
      - By contrast, a lack of opportunity at work for self-improvement or personal and professional development is liable to make employees more bored and demotivated
      - A key implication for managers to is to set tasks for employees that are neither too easy or excessively challenging. Pink calls such tasks "Goldilocks tasks) - ie. tasks that are not "too hot or too cold".
    - - Pink describes purpose as the desire to do things in service of something larger than ourselves. Pink argues that people intrinsically want to do things that matter.
      - For example, entrepreneurs are often intrinsically motivated to "make a difference" rather than simply aiming for profit maximisation.
      - Most of us spend more than half our working hours at work. We want that time to matter.
      - So a key part of adding purpose to work is to ensure that the mission and goals of the organisation are properly communicated to employees. Employees need to know and understand these, and appreciate how their work and role fits into what the organisation is about.
    - - According to Pink, autonomy is the desire to direct our own lives. Pink argues that allowing employees autonomy runs counter to the traditional view of management which wants employees to "comply" with what is required of them.
      - However, if managers want employees to be more engaged in what they are doing (and they should - as tasks become more complicated) then allowing employees autonomy (self-direction is better).
      - Pink provides some examples of what he means by autonomy, summarising them into four main aspects: time, technique, team and task