Okay, so is it extrinsic or intrinsic motivation that drives you? This in turn results in greater satisfaction and lower turnover costs.
Research shows that employees with resources and opportunities that line up with their motivation style experience a higher sense of job autonomy. Performance at work (both on a personal and company-wide level) depends on how individuals are motivated and enabled to achieve.īeing able to navigate between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation for yourself and others can pay off-literally. Understanding how extrinsic and intrinsic motivation play out in different scenarios is especially important at work. If you’re externally motivated, you may feel more driven when you know money, praise or other prizes are on the table. Mental characteristics vary greatly and what motivates us is no exception.ĭo internal goals inspire your choices? Or do external factors play a bigger role in driving you to do something? If you’re intrinsically motivated, you don’t need a reward in order to do things you’re inspired by the pleasure you get from doing them.
For example, the internet was abuzz a few weeks ago with a discussion about people who process thoughts through an internal monologue and those who don’t. And that goes beyond what we think-which political party we support or whether we believe that Rihanna was great or spectacular in Ocean’s Eight-into how we think. One of the beautiful things about humans is that we all think differently.