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Intrinsic Motivation at Work

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)

What motivates people to do their best work in any endeavor they undertake? Management theory and practice has traditionally focused on elements that Kenneth Thomas calls extrinsic motivators: pay, benefits, status, bonuses, commissions, pension plans, expense budgets, and the like. While these are powerful motivators, particularly in command-control job situations in which workers have little or no say in how the job is managed, they are no longer enough by themselves.

In today's organizations, in which managers expect workers and teams to self-manage their work, intrinsic rewards are essential. This breakthrough book provides the first comprehensive treatment of intrinsic motivation in the workplace—the psychological rewards workers get directly from the work itself—offering clear advice on how companies can harness its tremendous power to develop a more committed, self-managing workforce.

Written in an engaging, accessible style and grounded in solid academic research, this book provides a diagnostic framework for addressing problems of intrinsic motivation and essential ways to build it.


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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged, 2

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780792791898
  • File size: 172581 KB
  • Release date: November 1, 2012
  • Duration: 05:59:32

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780792791898
  • File size: 172603 KB
  • Release date: November 6, 2012
  • Duration: 05:59:30
  • Number of parts: 5

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Business Nonfiction

Languages

English

What motivates people to do their best work in any endeavor they undertake? Management theory and practice has traditionally focused on elements that Kenneth Thomas calls extrinsic motivators: pay, benefits, status, bonuses, commissions, pension plans, expense budgets, and the like. While these are powerful motivators, particularly in command-control job situations in which workers have little or no say in how the job is managed, they are no longer enough by themselves.

In today's organizations, in which managers expect workers and teams to self-manage their work, intrinsic rewards are essential. This breakthrough book provides the first comprehensive treatment of intrinsic motivation in the workplace—the psychological rewards workers get directly from the work itself—offering clear advice on how companies can harness its tremendous power to develop a more committed, self-managing workforce.

Written in an engaging, accessible style and grounded in solid academic research, this book provides a diagnostic framework for addressing problems of intrinsic motivation and essential ways to build it.


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