MOTIVATING INDIVIDUALS IN MODERN WORLD: BEYOND MONEY AND PRESTIGE

摘要

Efficiency at doing a certain task is strongly influenced by how motivated an individual is: a motivated employee can complete up more work in a given amount of time, compared to a demotivated employee. But what precisely stimulates people for work, and how do these motivators depend on age, education level, job type or cultural background? Our final outcome is twofold: as a structure of personal motivators with its relevance for psychology and business and secondly as implication for managers suggesting how companies can motivate/stimulate their employees and avoid dissatisfaction. We report the results of a survey conducted in Slovenia, involving an ensemble of employees carefully selected as to reflect the country's social diversity. Our key finding is that, contrary to the traditional beliefs centered on money and prestige as the only true motivators, Slovenes are stimulated by an intricate web of interdependent factors, which only weakly correlate to demographic parameters. From the model we can conclude, that motivation at work rather as being seen as one factor is a multifactor construct. From our data we conclude that, the motivation at work is an integration of inner and outer work conditions, company specifics, relationships and self-actualization.