Scientists have been researching the way to get employees motivated
for many years. This research in a relational study which builds the
fundamental and comprehensive model for study. This is especially true when
the business goal is to turn unmotivated teams into productive ones. But
their researchers have limitations. It is like studying the movements of
car without taking out the engine.
Motivation is what drives people to succeed and plays a vital role in
enhancing an organizational development. It is important to study the
motivation of employees because it is related to the emotion and behavior
of employees. Recent studies show there are four drives for motivation.
They are the drive to acquire, the drive to bond, the drive to comprehend
and the drive to defend.
The Drive to Acquire
The drive to acquire must be met to optimize the acquire aspect as
well as the achievement element. Thus the way that outstanding performance
is recognized, the type of perks that is provided to polish the career
path. But sometimes a written letter of appreciation generates more
motivation than a thousand dollar check, which can serve as the invisible
power to boost business engagement. Successful organizations and leaders
not only need to focus on the optimization of physical reward but also on
moving other levers within the organization that can drive motivation.
The Drive to Bond
The drive to bond is also key to driving motivation. There are many
kinds of bonds between people, like friendship, family. In company,
employees also want to be an essential part of company. They want to belong
to the company. Employees will be motivated if they find personal belonging
to the company. In the meantime, the most commitment will be achieved by
the employee on condition that the force of motivation within the employee
affects the direction, intensity and persistence of decision and behavior
in company.
The Drive to Comprehend
The drive to comprehend motivates many employees to higher
performance. For years, it has been known that setting stretch goals can
greatly impact performance. Organizations need to ensure that the various
job roles provide employees with simulation that challenges them or allow
them to grow. Employees don’t want to do meaningless things or monotonous
job. If the job didn’t provide them with personal meaning and fulfillment,
they will leave the company.
The Drive to Defend
The drive to defend is often the hardest lever to pull. This drive
manifests itself as a quest to create and promote justice, fairness, and
the ability to express ourselves freely. The organizational lever for this
basic human motivator is resource allocation. This drive is also met through
an employee feeling connection to a company. If their companies are merged
with another, they will show worries.
Two studies have been done to find the relations between the four
drives and motivation. The article based on two studies was finally published
in Harvard Business Review. Most authors’ arguments have laid emphasis on
four-drive theory and actual investigations. Using the results of the
surveys which executed with employees from Fortune 500 companies and other
two global businesses (P company and H company), the article mentions about
how independent drives influence employees’ behavior and how organizational
levers boost employee motivation.
The studies show that the drive to bond is most related to fulfilling
commitment, while the drive to comprehend is most related to how much
effort employees spend on works. The drive to acquire can be satisfied by a
rewarding system which ties rewards to performances, and gives the best
people opportunities for advancement. For drive to defend, a study on the
merging of P company and H company shows that employees in former company
show an unusual cooperating attitude.
The key to successfully motivate employees is to meet all drives.
Each of these drives is important if we are to understand employee motivation.
These four drives, while not necessarily the only human drives, are the
ones that are central to unified understanding of modern human life.
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