MOTIVATION

Is economic retribution enough to motivate employees?

According to what I've learned, you can call motivation as external or internal forces that drive your actions and behavior in order for you to achieve something or to do a certain thing.

I think and for my personal experience that when you are motivated in life things change and take a different face. It’s like if they accompany you all the time and always remind you all the good things, results or consequences you will get by doing or achieving something. Its like that motor that drives you and it cheers you up even the road to get things is not always easy or how we would like it to be.

Talking about being motivated in your own job, besides internal incentives that may exist, external incentives may exist as well. Sometimes, it's not enough with the fact that you like and enjoy your job and that at the end of the month you receive your payment; you or at least for a lot of people, an encouraging and provocative reason why to do things it’s the key. This reason I'm talking about is not just the payment or economic retribution in case you do something special and get a bonus payment, no, well, it can be one, but it’s very important for you as an employee of an organization, fell part of it and to become identified with it, but at the same time, it’s important for your own esteem, that the organization recognize your qualities and be aware of who they have working with them.

As a way of recognition to your accomplishments in work, for me, it’s not enough with the economic retribution to get an employee motivated, it’s also important to recognize their abilities, their importance for the organization through recognition programs, special bonus, flexible benefits packages, different ways and symbols of distinction like the employee of the month, leader of a certain successful project or idea, among other ways of recognition because they represent incentives for people when they are fulfilling their objectives.

It´s like a way to see that it’s a win-win situation, it´s good for you and for the other.

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