Camaraderie Action: Optimizing Rewards, Recognition, and Appreciation

Author(s):  
Stephen J. Swensen ◽  
Tait D. Shanafelt

The second Camaraderie Action is Optimizing Rewards, Recognition, and Appreciation. It connects with and fuels intrinsic motivation and also influences community and collegiality. Embracing compensation and acknowledgment systems based on intrinsic motivators is part of the foundation for cultivating esprit de corps.

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Welschen ◽  
Nelly Todorova ◽  
Annette M. Mills

Despite heavy investments in knowledge management systems, people are often reluctant to share their knowledge, with knowledge hoarding being one of the largest obstacles to effective knowledge management in organizations. This paper proposes a model that examines the role of intrinsic motivation in knowledge sharing. Bringing together insights from motivational research, Self-Determination Theory and the Theory of Reasoned Action, the study investigates the links between intrinsic motivators and knowledge sharing. Survey data collected from knowledge workers are analyzed using partial least squares. The results show self-efficacy, meaningfulness and impact are important motivators of attitude towards knowledge sharing, which in turn impacts intention to share knowledge. The findings provide insights into employee motivations to share knowledge, and strategies for enhancing knowledge sharing in organizations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eka Diraksa Putra ◽  
Seonghee Cho ◽  
Juan Liu

The aim of this study was to examine extrinsic and intrinsic motivations as the antecedents of work engagement and to empirically test the motivation crowding theory using hospitality employees. The findings showed that intrinsic motivation played an important role in improving employees’ work engagement. The study also found that there was no indication that employees’ intrinsic motivation diminished when extrinsic motivation entered. It is also suggested that employers need to understand that creating a comfortable workplace environment and making jobs more interesting and meaningful will increase employees’ intrinsic motivation, which will help employees to engage more at work. Motivational antecedents of work engagement have been rarely studied and no studies have been conducted to research impacts of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators on employees’ work engagement in the hospitality industry, particularly in small restaurant businesses. In addition, empirical studies on motivation crowding theory are needed due to the inconclusive results.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songtao Mo

The objective of this study is to investigate the association of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and student performance. This study performs an exploratory analysis and presents evidence to demonstrate that intrinsic motivators affect the connection between external motivators and student performance. The empirical tests follow the framework developed by Baron and Kenny (1986) and examine the mediation effect on the data collected from an undergraduate auditing course. The results indicate that there exists a partial mediation effect of voluntary online quizzes (a measure of intrinsic motivator) on the association between mandatory in-class quizzes (a measure of external motivator) and course performance. The findings offer basis for interesting implications, suggesting that mandatory external motivators (e.g., in-class quizzes) are of less value with the presence of other viable motivational techniques (e.g., online quizzes). Voluntary online quizzes help foster learner intrinsic motivation and hence bear more importance with student performance. Educators may consider using techniques that can boost intrinsic motivation in teaching practices.


2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 532-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale H. Schunk
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