Sunday, February 20, 2011

Microsofts Way of Motivation

Microsoft Motivation Techniques

I came across this article on motivation and it really stood out to me on a bunch of different levels. First, this wasn't a typical article about motivation from a no name company. This is a way that Microsoft interprets how to motivate employees and goes into detail the different ways they are able to motivate them. This is also a different way of looking at motivation because it is more of a chart. This is something that would be appealing to visual learners because it would be easier for visual people to look at the chart and better understand it.

I believe, after reading this article, that it is true that there are certain levels of motivation. Not everyone is a skilled motivator and there are times where people who think they are motivating their employees are actually demotivating them. I agree with this chart in that that there are specific levels of motivation and that not everyone is on the same level.  I think it was also a good idea to put ideas and warning signs that employees may be over motivating there employees. To run a successful business, one needs to be able and keep their employees moving and wanting to work.

While this may seem like an obvious answer, it is often difficult to find the correct and proper way to motivating employees. I believe that motivating your employees is essential for successful business practices. Microsoft gives a lot of great ideas about how to successfully motivate and also ways to not demotive your employees. The real question is if any of these methods are capable of working for every specific business/
What do you think?

-Brian Cullum team 7

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