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Employee Motivation
A Powerful New Model
Joseph ChungAM Journal Club
22 Oct 2011
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Motivation
• "the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action;" and "the reason for the action."
Webster’s Dictionary
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What motivate us as human being?
• “It is the object of appetite which originates movement, this object may be either the real or the apparent good...To the thinking soul images serve as if they were contents of perception...”
Aristotle
It was "the real or the apparent good" of some anticipated consequence, or image of "what is to come" derived in "reference to what is present," that simulated a living organism to pursue it (if positive) or avoid it (if negative).
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Sigmund Freud
The "pleasure principle" as the primary mechanism of motivation. Organisms are driven to "seek pleasurable experiences" and "avoid pain;"
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Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow
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But what actions can managers take to satisfy the four drives &
increase their employees’ overall motivation?
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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
• Paul R. Lawrence• Nitin Nohria• 2002• HBR July-Aug 2008
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Two studies….
• Survey on …• 385 employees of two global business
( financial services giants & a leading IT services firm)
• Employees from 300 Fortune 500 companies
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Overall Motivation
• Engagement• Satisfaction• Commitment• Intention to quit
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Engagement
• Energy, effort & initiative employees bring to their jobs
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Satisfaction
• The extent to which they feel that the company meets their expectations at work
and• Satisfies its implicit
and explicit contracts with them
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Commitment
• The extent to which employees engage in corporate citizenship
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Intention to quit
• The best proxy for employee turnover
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Results
• Explains about 60% of employees’ variance on motivational indicators
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4 Major Drives (ABCD)
Acquire
Bond
Comprehend
Defend
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Acquire
• Obtain scarce goods
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Acquire
• Physical goods, e.g. food, clothing, housing, money
• Experience, e.g. travel, entertainment• Improved social status, e.g. promotion, a
corner office, a place o the corporate board
• Bloster our sense of well-being
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Acquire
• Relative (always compare what we have with what others possess)
• Insatiable (always want more)
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Bond
• Form connections with individuals and groups
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Bond• Extend that connection from their parents,
kinship group, or tribe to • Organizations, associations and nations• Associated with love & caring• Loneliness, anomie• Feel proud of belonging to the organization• Loss morale when the institution betrays them• Employees’ ability to form attachments to larger
collectiveness, sometimes leads them to care more about the organization than about their local group within it.
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Comprehend
• Satisfy our curiosity• Master the world around us
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Comprehend• Accounts for meaningful
contribution• Make sense of the world,
to produce theories and accounts (scientific, religious, cultural)
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Comprehend
• Motivate by jobs that challenge them & enable them to grow & learn
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• Demoralize by monotonous task• Talented employees often leave their companies
to find new challenges elsewhere
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Defend
• Protect against external threats
• Promote justice
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Defend
• Defend ourselves, our property, accomplishments, our family, friends, ideas & beliefs against external threats.
• A quest to create institution that promote justice, with clear goals & intentions; allow people to express their ideas & opinions
• Sense of security & confidence• Fear & resentment• People’s resistance to change
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Results
• Bond – employee commitment• Comprehend – employee engagement• The whole is more than the sum of its
parts
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• Poor showing on 1 drive substantially diminishes the impact of high scores on the other three
• E.g. Nardelli – Home Depot
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• Just pay your employees a lot & hope they’ll feel enthusiastic about their work in an organization where bonding is not fostered, or work seems meaningless, or people feel defenseless.
• People bond as a tight-knit team when they are underpaid or toiling away at deathly boring jobs.
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To fully motivate your employees, you must address all four drives.
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The Organizational Levers of Motivation
1. The reward system2. Culture3. Job design4. Performance-management & resource-
allocation processes
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The reward system
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The reward system
• Drive to acquire• Tie reward clearly to performance• Sharply differentiate good performers from
average and poor performers• Give the best people opportunities for
advancement.• e.g. NatWest after acquired by the Royal Bank
of Scotland; reward good performance over average performance
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Culture
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Culture
• Drive to bond• Engender a strong sense of camaraderie• Promotes teamwork, collaboration,
openness & friendship• Example: NatWest – well-defined cost-
savings & revenue-growth projects; executive meets every Monday morning
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Job Design
• The drive to comprehend• Designing jobs that are meaningful,
interesting & challenging
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Example: Cirque du Soleil
• Commit to make jobs challenging & fulfilling
• Despite grueling rehearsal & performance schedules
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• Accommodate performers’ creativity & push them to perfect their craft
• Employees get to say a lot about how performances are staged
• Allow to move from show to show to learn new skills
• Get constant collegial exposure to the world’s top artists in the field
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Performance-management & resource-allocation processes
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• Drive to defend• Fair, trustworthy & transparent process• Example: RBS – make its decision
process very clear – employees are able to understand the rationale behind the decision
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Aflac
• the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States
• Fortune’s 100 Best companies to work for• Match organizational levers with emotional
drives on multiple fronts
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• Acquire: individual performance is recognized & rewarded in highly visible ways;
• Bond: employee appreciation week• Comprehend: invest significantly in training &
development (e.g. managing, recruiting & designing curricular for training new agents)
• Defend: action to improve employees’ QoL, on-site child care (work/life balance), non-layoff policy
• The company’s stated philosophy is to be employee-centric – take care of its people first. In turn, the firm believes that employees will take care of customers.
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Holistic approach is the best
• Actions taken on several fronts seems to reinforce one another (the holistic approach)
• Worth more than the sum of its constituent parts
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The Role of Direct Manager• Direct manager vs Organization’s policies• Employees are realistic about what managers
cannot do, but also about what mangers should be able to do in meeting all the basic needs of their subordinates.
• Employees attribute as much importance to their boss’s meeting their 4 drives as to the organization’s policies.
• Recognize that a manger has some control over how company processes & policies are implemented.
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• Even in cutthroat culture, a manager can take actions that encourage teamwork & make jobs more meaningful & interesting.
• Some managers create a toxic local climate within a highly motivated organization.
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Summary
• Employee motivation is influenced by a complex system of managerial & organizational factors.
• To get the best out of employees, we should fulfill their most fundamental needs.
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The End