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How Can You Motivate Knowledge Workers?
Jaap de Jonge, CEO, Netherlands, Editor
In the current 'knowledge era', the question what motivates knowledge workers, and, being a manager, how you should motivate and manage them is important.
In their article "The Progress of Small Wins" in HBR May 2011, Professor Theresa M. Amabile and researcher Steven J. Kramer are reporting interesting findings and formulate a principle.
By the way, this principle reminded me strongly of above summarized Expectancy Theory (1964) of Victor Vroom (the article itself does not mention this).
According to Amabile and Kramer what motivates knowledge workers is surprisingly simple: the sense of making progress in meaningful work (they call this the Progress Principle).
In this Progress Principle, 3 elements are important:
1. Sense (similar to Vroom's Expectancy)
2. Making Progress (similar to Vroom's Instrumentality)
3. Meaningful (similar to Vroom's Valence)
According to the authors 'this sense of making progress is fundamental t...
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Knowledge Workers Motivate Themselves
G.J. Bouwman, Business Consultant, Netherlands, Member A Dutch book I like is "Leidinggeven aan professionals? Niet doen." (Ed: Leading professionals? Don't.) written by Mathieu Weggeman. What I like is th... |
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Bucks and Rush on Motivating Knowledge Workers
Gustavo Ruiz, HR Consultant, Spain, Member Where is the money? Many knowledge workers tell the boss: "show me the money". This is one of the unknown (yet well known) factors.
Anothe... |
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Be a Leader..
Nelson Hernandez Manso, Consultant, Spain, Member If somebody ask for the money, don't take it. I am with Bouwman: knowledge raise, power in company.. "To boldy go an alpha manager". Use the la... |
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Motivation of Knowledge Workers
barhoumi chawki, Coach, France, Member If we understand the expectancies of (knowledge) workers, we can realize the objectives of the firm.... |
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There is Nothing like Self-motivation
Madan Gopal Agarwal, Business Consultant, India, Member Firstly, many workers are knowledge workers, so the scope is very wide.
Secondly, there is nothing like 'self-motivation'. Is there any case stud... |
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Motivational Factors
Mrs c usha rani, Professor, India, Member Knowledge, attitude and hard work are key terms for success. In addition to these, spiritual management such as allowing employees to express their in... |
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Intrinsic Motivation is Possible
Daniel Carriere, Project Manager, Netherlands, Member Higher educated people are very able to motivate themselves. You as their leader should facilitate in enabling self motivation and taking contr... |
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Vrooms Theory and Motivating Knowledge Workers
prasad, Professor, India, Member This entire thing about motivation smells of that Theory X belief. I think it is a fictional thing. There is only being focused in life and excelling.... |
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The Art of Being a Leader
joko triyono, Director, Indonesia, Member Vroom's theory is more specific than Maslow or Herzberg. We can apply it effectively with a direct subordinate by knowing individually what they expe... |
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Career Enhancement
farhadjabeen Shaikh, India, Member I believe knowledge workers always want more from their work, more autonomy, variety, and challenges. A knowledge worker will move if he does n... |
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Group Lobbing as a Motivation
Alexander N. Raikov, Director, Russian Federation, Member Money and rush are important nowadays for knowledge creation. But they are only a necessary condition.
Immaterial motivation is much more impo... |
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Motivating Knowledge Workers
Tony Nasirembe, Management Consultant, Kenya, Member In a knowledge worker environment, motivation is driven by empowerment and release. Control and punishment are inhibitors of motivation. Recogn... |
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Balance Between Body, Mind and Soul
Ramakrishnan, Professor, India, Member It is immaterial whether one is a knowledge worker or a skilled worker. Basically he or she is an individual made up of three components namely body, ... |
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Motivation for Result
ADENIJI ADETUNJI, Accountant, Nigeria, Member A motivated staff member, driven by his needs, will no doubt be a productive employee. Managers need to identify these factors. When aligned to the em... |
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Distinguish Stimulus and Motive
Inna Borodina, Professor, Russian Federation, Member Motive is not the same as a stimulus. Money is a stimulus.
A motive is a "real" perpetuum mobile. It is a system with feedback.... |
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Motivation Differs for Everyone
Jacob Andrews, Entrepreneur, United Arab Emirates, Member There is no single universally accepted definition of motivation. It is a state of mind and it differs for everyone.
Hence every manager struggl... |
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How Can You Motivate Workers?
J. D. Popham, Professor, China, Member Background: I teach, in English, a management course & an intro stats course to Chinese students at a tier 2 univ. In China. I start off with a ppt ou... |
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Motivating Knowledge Workers
Natarajan Ramanathan Due to space constraints, let me just put bullet points:
A. Knowledge is like water - it will go and accumulate at the lowest point. That ... |
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Then... Managing is an Art
Nelson Hernandez Manso, Consultant, Spain, Member Wonderful! A lot of knowledge, a lot of people to understand and motivate, including the manager.
I agree, strongly with C. Usha and Popham. Coun... |
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Fostering the Context, Rewards and Recognition
David J. MacCoy, Management Consultant, Canada, Member Knowledge workers from information technology, financial services, scientific research, engineering and health services are largely self-motivated<... |
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Motivating Knowledge Workers
ANTONIO BARRANCO RUIZ, Manager, Spain, SIG Leader There are approximately 17 theories on motivation.
The expectancy theory of Vroom is one of the five Theories of the Processes, in ... |
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Extrinsic Motivation
bliss ogbanga, Director, Nigeria, Member The varying shades of opinions from different contributors on Vroom's expectancy theory make the debate an interest reading. Indeed I am benefited. I ... |
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6 Sources of (Individual) Motivation
David Whitfield, Professor, United States, Member From reading Wlodkowski and McGregor, I believe motivation is owned by the individual; it comes from within.
Motivation stems from need. I... |
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How Can You Motivate Workers?
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member People do need to be nourished as Editor included, to be inspired as Bliss indicated, ultimately "achieving" by finding personal fulfillment in the wo... |
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Motivation of Knowledge Workers
Lloyd Madzokere, Student (Other), Zimbabwe, Member Knowledge workers can be motivated by the work environment and the business culture of the organisation.... |
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Motivation of Knowledge Workers
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Yes, the work environment is a major motivating factor, in addition to the business culture of the organization. Reasonable expectations based on stra... |
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Positive and Negative Reinforcement
ANTONIO BARRANCO RUIZ, Manager, Spain, SIG Leader The real reinforcement is the positive one, because it is the only thing that makes people feel special. Positive reinforcements act constructi... |
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