The Puzzle of Motivation

Question: Explain the puzzle of motivation. Answer: The Puzzle of motivation by author Dan Pink is the concept of motivation what is most desirable in the business world today. The time where all businesses are in regular contests of developing their supremacy and the most of them not moving to the next levels. Results are failure. Then there are few of them who are changing the world with their motivated professionals and success stories. Dan Pink believes that Carrot and sticks concept of motivation is not worthy. Simple reason to justify the same is that one cannot be motivated and punished at the same time. Rather, he have strong urge to give employees the autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy means the encouragement to live as per own ideology, mastery to have edge on something and excel in it and purpose that always give sense of commitment for own intentions. Dan has morally justified that there is contradictory difference between what science knows and what business does. Its not always that incentives and bonuses are the motivators for highest performance because results have gone worst in testing such scenarios. In our own organization, the employees are highly motivated by the purpose of the job they do rather than putting them linked to the rewards that are time bound, performance bound and so on. The very promising approach of ROWE-Result only work environment is successful because people in the job are the one who love their work and results are higher efficiency and lower attrition. This will also solve the candle problem-the problem of not utilizing the possible options and one-way directed efforts. Revolving eyes brings more creativity and our brain works the way it should. Let us get into the simple conclusion of the discussion and trust in simplicity of the concept of natural motivation. Natural motivation to let employees do what they like and how they do. The outcomes will be positive, productive and our businesses will follow the rising charts.