Most business owners understand the importance of keeping employees motivated, and often make motivation one of a managers' job responsibilities. It's easy to overlook the need for motivation for ...

When it comes to motivating others and ourselves, it turns out offering rewards in defined categories, even when they are largely meaningless, can heighten motivation. Even if the rewards are the ...

Your small business needs the best talent available to succeed. To attract and keep talented individuals, you must think of compensation in a holistic way that includes several forms of compensation ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Flawed assumptions about what motivates people to work can lead to counterproductive management tactics, argues new research from MIT Sloan Management ...

I know we’ve talked about how rewards affect student motivation many times before, but this article in the American Educator approaches the question “should learning be its own reward?” from the ...

This post is by Kim Carter, the Executive Director of the Q.E.D. Foundation, an organization of adults and youth working together to create and sustain student-centered learning communities, and a ...

Public Performance & Management Review, Vol. 37, No. 4 (June 2014), pp. 552-576 (25 pages) The reward preference of public sector employees has often been evaluated in terms of public service ...

Why Big Rewards Fail to Motivate Innovation? Money Isn’t the Only Driver in the Modern Business WorldIn the world of entrepreneurship, big financial incentives like annual bonuses and commissions are ...