Question

Industrial psychology.

I need to write about article that Tomas Jungert wrote. (""How Colleagues Can Support Each Others Needs and Motivation: An Intervention on Employee Work Motivation").

Can i know description of the authors’ motivational intervention and at least one theory that they used to explain why their intervention should work ?

Answer 1

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary.

(Answer) In this paper, the researchers talk about how the workplace has evolved. They talk about how authority is no longer sticking to a hierarchy but rather getting flat. There are more teams in the workplace and these teams depend on the motivation from interpersonal relationships. The researchers want to find out if external motivations like a raise or reward would be more effective than an autonomous motivation from a colleague. Such friendly motivation eventually leads to self-motivation and keeps an employee in high-spirits through nurtured friendships.

To do this, the researchers studied a controlled group that was offered external motivations and a group that relied on autonomous motivation. Upon their analysis, they found out that employees tend to stay motivated for longer when their motivation was autonomous. In other words, when the novelty of the external motivation fades, the employees lack certain vigour.

According to the “Self-Determination Theory”, an individual inherently makes choices that would lead it them being motivated without the use of external stimuli. These growth tendencies and psychological needs arise from the person’s inherent need to stay determined.