Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

AN IDEAL CLIMATE ENCOURAGES SELF-MOTIVATION

The ideal working climate is one that creates self-motivation in workers. It is generally recognized today that in most work environments traditional motivational techniques do not work well. Supervisors get little response from most workers through pep talks, contests, pay increases, and traditional forms of counseling. In a large number of cases, a worker is either self-motivated or not motivated at all. The word motivation comes from the Latin word movere, which means literally, “to move.” Machinery cannot move on its own. For example, for a clock to move it needs some motivating force, some energy source external to itself, like a wound main spring, battery, or other source of energy. On the other ...