A little bit off topic but falls into something that I am very much ‘into’ which is motivational factors (especially when I was doing a business degree whilst working in the NHS as a nurse manager).
Belbin considers money to be a greater demotivator than motivator and that recognition and the ability to plan your own work and goals is the key to productivity.
I’ve recently started work for a car leasing company after three years in retail car sales during which time I worked for three different companies. They all operated a three tier reward scheme that for several reasons, doesn’t work.
The owner of the car leasing company, Ian Meek has had a long and distinguished career in retail car sales prior to leasing and whilst General Manager of a Saab dealership introduced a high salary, no bonus wage structure for sales staff that left the sales people free to concentrate on doing the job properly and they had a virtual monopoly on supplying Saabs to the area and turnover of staff stopped. Very much the same idea as given in the link above. When you consider that the retailers I worked for had such a massive recruitment retention problem that they should have fitted revolving doors to the dealerships, it certainly makes sense.
I’ll show him this link later today: I’m sure he’ll be impressed!
With such forward thinking, no wonder I was keen to accept the offer of employment when it came!
People are motivated by the ability to do a job well rather than financial reward but the money available must be such that it no longer becomes a factor. Equating this to fishing is simple if you look back to several posts where I complained that the winning purse currently available is insufficient to warrant competing: Thereby a demotivator!
Probably one of the reasons that the sport is struggling at the moment?
TF_One Out of the Frame.
