Thoughts on the Future of Work
This article is cross-posted on emergent by design, in response to Julian Birkinshaw’s post, Will the role and influence of the employee be different in the new world of work?
Berkinshaw’s article focuses heavily on analyzing motivation and its drivers as an approach to discussing new management models. Defining motivation and breaking it down into categories is fine, but as Marc Buyens (@mbuyens) said in the comments section, it may be a way of overcomplicating a relatively simple concept.
We know that humans are driven by some motivation for every action that is taken. In terms of how to motivate workers, it seems like it can be simplified into a sentence:
People want to perform work that matters to them.
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