How would you reward your employees – cash or gift?
This is an interesting question I’ve been thinking for a long time on but today I found a post in the Predictably Irrational blog (thanks to Bas de Baar!) and I decided to put my own thoughts on a page. I already wrote about the motivation here but this time I think it’s more a matter of culture (individual and national) than just a management problem so I published my thoughts in a post on my personal blog Stop and Think! Read it there and then share your comments!
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How To Motivate Your Team?
Bas de Baar asked this question in his blog Project Shrink and asked his readers to suggest their opinions. I have always thought that having motivated people is the key to the project success but I really haven’t got “a recipe” how to motivate a software team. In fact, I know a lot of things that you can do to undermine your team’s motivation and trust, a lot of classic mistakes you can do but I didn’t have a ready answer to that question so I had to think a little deeper but I finally came up with an answer.
Let you team members be creative!
Who Does Money Really Motivate?
I’ve been a manager for quite some time and I have always wondered how to motivate my people to work better but I have never got a good answer. Until recently, when I read Pawel Brodzinski’s post Money as a Motivator and David Carr’s 7 Reasons why Money is not the best Motivator. Pawel also referred to Rob Walling’s post Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money.
We all know Frederick Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory. There are motivation and hygiene factors that drive our job satisfaction. Here is my simple understanding of them:
- motivation factors drive us to work more, to perform better, to be more creative
- hygiene factors are the ones that their lack demotivates us and drive us to work less, to perform worse, and to be less productive and creative
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