Employee Motivation

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A willingness to expend energy to achieve a goal or reward

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Motivation

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Level of commitment, drive, and creativity that your team brings with them to work every day

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Employee motivation

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Driven by internal emotions like happiness, pride, or satisfaction

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Intrinsic motivation

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Driven by external influences, such as earning a reward or avoiding punishment

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Extrinsic motivation

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A relatively brief set of questions sent to employees, typically using an employee engagement platform

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Pulse surveys

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Allow anonymous input that can be shared any time

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HR chatbots

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Analyzing which employees are nominated for recognition within the company can provide insight into who is viewed as highly motivated and engaged

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Peer-to-peer recognition programs

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The basis of this theory is that human beings need to have their most basic needs met before they can get the motivation to achieve those higher goals

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory of motivation

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Basic needs have to be met in order for a person to survive

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Physiological

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These needs help people feel safe

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Safety

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These needs are for connections

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Social

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These needs are to feel good about yourself, confident, appreciated, and recognized

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Esteem

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The top of the pyramid is the need to become your very best self

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Self-actualization

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A theory developed by psychologist Frederick Hertzberg

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Hertzberg’s Two-Factor Theory

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Two factors that significantly influence employee engagement and motivation

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Motivator factors and hygiene factors

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Factors that provide employees with positive motivation to do their best at work every day

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Motivator factors

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Factors that can make employees feel dissatisfied and demotivated when they’re not present

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Hygiene factors

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This theory posits that satisfying the three basic psychological needs of employees help encourage intrinsic motivation and high-quality performance

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Self-Determination Theory of Motivation

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The feeling of being cared for and having a strong sense of belonging

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Relatedness

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Feeling effective and experiencing growth

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Competence

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Empowering employees to feel like they’re in charge of their own actions, can make their own choices

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Autonomy

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Victor Vroom suggests that organizations looking to motivate employees need to ensure that all three factors - expectancy, instrumentality and valence

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Expectancy Theory of Motivation

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What employees expect from their own efforts

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Expectancy

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It is about whether the employee’s performance is good enough to achieve the desired result

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Instrumentality

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How much you value the expected reward

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Valence

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The theory that is based on the concept that human beings are always looking for meaning in everything that happens to us

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Three-dimensional theory of attribution

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Three factors in three-dimensional theory of attribution

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Locus of control, stability, controllability

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Cause of an event is internal or external

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Locus of control

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Cause is stable over time or something temporary or likely to change

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stability

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Cause is controllable or uncontrollably

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Controllability

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Theory that motivates employees to make decisions that are in their broad self-interest

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Nudge theory