Motivation on the Run

Jerry Pounds writes an interesting article at Management Issues’ website yesterday. He tackles some of the different philosophies involved in management techniques as they are implemented today and what flaws he believes they have.

In order to get the complete picture, you need to read the entire article for text and context, but here is a brief excerpt to whet your appetite.

Breaking the Motivational Code:

Certain situations lead employees to voluntarily change their work behavior (performance). So what lessons can we draw from these? How can we apply them to our management behavior so that we can in turn change and influence employee behavior? A good place to start is examining what type of situations cause employees to change their behavior.

• Leadership

• Company culture

• Supervision

• Systems and processes

• Peers

• Downsizing, mergers, restructuring

• Empowerment

• Cross-training and continuing education

For each of these Jerry gives an explanation and finishes with his interpretation of the motivational behaviors that work.

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