Staff Motivation: At Which Buttons Push?

Each manager dreams of finding a certain "button" from his subordinates, which, by their pressing, controls the desire of the employees to work for the achievement of the result. Even better, if there is a system of such "buttons" that will allow controlling subordinates in automatic mode. From a scientific point of view, such a system is called staff motivation. Ideally, the system should work as follows. The given program allows to control labor productivity, to call employees with a natural desire to perform their duties qualitatively in order to achieve a positive result, both for themselves and for the company as a whole. In most cases, motivation and incentives for staff are transferred to money that has long been considered a resource that makes it easy to manage every person.

Staff motivation is such an important aspect of the organization of the work process, at least to some extent pretending to be effective, that a lot of books have been written on this topic, several theories have been created, millions of articles have been published, but so far, to answer the question of how Organize a 100% effective management of staff motivation , unfortunately not.

It should be noted that staff motivation is a science that is actively studied by entire departments of international corporations. With the visible success that specialists in this matter achieve, there are facts that can not be explained in terms of generally accepted logic. For example, successful managers give up a well- paid job and give themselves to a calm and measured life, though not filled with material values in excessive volume, but without stress and time pressure. In this example, there is a persistent tendency of an incorrectly constructed motivation system, erroneous transfer of personal motivation card data, which is inherent in every person, into the work process. That is why the motivation of the staff, namely the construction of a system for maintaining employees in an efficient state and at the level of satisfaction with one's own work and life that achieves the desired goals and results, must be carried out by competent specialists, and for each specific case, that is, for each particular company and Situation in which it is located.

Of course, it is not every organization that can hire a specialist or even a whole department that will only build a system for managing and motivating staff, although in some cases this is advisable. In most cases, issues related to staff motivation are handled by managers who need to be aware of the correct system design.

Unfortunately, many managers do not realize the importance of the above and base their own system of personnel motivation on the already motivated, motivating employees. Among such motives may be greed, fear for one's own future, internal adventurism, vanity, servility, and even a factor of pain. At the same time, such "buttons" that managers try to press on do not always produce the expected effect, at least long-term.

The head who decided to study the aspects of staff motivation, it is necessary first of all to realize two facts:

1. Employees are people who are no different from their boss or other managers

2. People who are employed are subordinated to their leadership only because of the circumstances, as well as personal motives.

These two factors are fundamental for building an effective system of personnel motivation - one of the most important moments of a successful work process.