What can you do as an organization, manager, colleague and/or work environment to increase intrinsic task motivation, and decrease the detrimental effects of extrinsic motivation?
Increase intrinsic task motivation:
- Engage team in the project from the start
- Match individuals/team interests to specific projects
- Provided freedom on how creatives like to work
- Leverage multi-skilled, diverse teams as a means to share knowledge
- Encourage support, public recognition, value ideas regardless of where they come from, encourage collaboration and input at all levels and across levels
- Allow freedom in what to do, when to do and how to go about accomplishing it
Decrease the detrimental effects of extrinsic motivation:
- Reasonable deadlines to allow for Exit Five thinking
- Provide sufficient resources, including facilities, equipment, info, funds, people
- Make it safe to fail
- Promote experimentation
- Be appreciative of other’s opinions, ideas and contributions
- Know when to impose controls and when not to
- Create a mechanism for considering new ideas
- Give clear direction on a job
- Avoid inappropriate evaluation where everyone is a creative director
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