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Employee motivation is a term thrown about the workplace like you throw a Frisbee in the park on a sunny day. Sometimes you catch it just right. Other times … it seems to take off with a mind of its own. But before we can talk about how to motivate employees, we first must agree […]
Perhaps poet and author Carl Sandburg said it best: “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.” It might be fair to say that we are all motivated by money. After all, we need money to put food in our bellies, clothes on our bodies, and roofs over […]
“I see dead trees,” Steve told his employer a few years earlier. “And that’s why I’m quitting my job.” Today Steve designs log cabins for a small manufacturer in PA. He’s been working here for about two years. The owner – his boss – loves his work ethic and his creative ideas have helped the […]
Recruiting employees with the right skills is hard enough. But hiring job applicants without understanding their fit into the company culture is a recipe for low employee motivation and engagement. To assess good company culture – employee fit, management and HR first must be able to identify and quantify the motivators that drive customer and employee behavior and […]
