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What motivates visitors to do their best work in any endeavor they undertake? Management theory and practice has customarily focused on elements that Kenneth Thomas telephone calls "extrinsic motivators": pay, benefits, status, bonus items, commissions, pension plans, expense budgets, and so on. While these are powerful motivators, especially in command line/control job situations where workers have little if any say in how the job is maintained, by themselves they can be no longer enough. In today's organizations, where managers expect workers and groups to self-manage their work, intrinsic rewards are crucial. This breakthrough reserve supplies the first detailed treatment of intrinsic desire in the workplace - the psychological rewards workers get directly from the work itself - offering clear advice about how companies can harness its great power to develop a more determined, self-managing workforce. Written in an participating, accessible style and grounded in solid educational research, the reserve provides a diagnostic framework for handling problems of intrinsic desire and essential ways to make it.
