Motivation
The psychological forces within a person that determine:
a) direction of behaviour
b) the effort or how hard they work
c) the persistence displayed in meeting goals
Motivation can be divided into two types; Intrinsic and Extrinsic:
Intrinsic:
Employees work from the motivation of achieving and performing work, most likely that they enjoy. For teachers of SACC this could include the allocation of achievable challenges for the sense of achievement such as helping a troublesome student with behaviour, participation and grades.
Extrinsic:
Employees that perform for the sake of it and are motivated by the outcomes of their behaviour. Outcomes could include both rewards or punishments, examples within St Andrews of rewards could be a pay rise, promotion, recognition in weekly staff meeting, praise, rewards such as small gifts and more career opportunities within the school. Punishment examples could be lack there of positive examples if work is insufficient. All of these things will keep an extrinsically driven person motivated.
a) direction of behaviour
b) the effort or how hard they work
c) the persistence displayed in meeting goals
Motivation can be divided into two types; Intrinsic and Extrinsic:
Intrinsic:
Employees work from the motivation of achieving and performing work, most likely that they enjoy. For teachers of SACC this could include the allocation of achievable challenges for the sense of achievement such as helping a troublesome student with behaviour, participation and grades.
Extrinsic:
Employees that perform for the sake of it and are motivated by the outcomes of their behaviour. Outcomes could include both rewards or punishments, examples within St Andrews of rewards could be a pay rise, promotion, recognition in weekly staff meeting, praise, rewards such as small gifts and more career opportunities within the school. Punishment examples could be lack there of positive examples if work is insufficient. All of these things will keep an extrinsically driven person motivated.
How do I know?
To find out how your employee is best motivated, experiment with both extrinsic and intrinsic rewards and see which approach they react to best. Most teachers are intrinsically motivated by their students achievements and understanding from what they have taught, as long as their are children to be taught and a majority that want to be taught their motivation should be consistent. Also the annual salary of a teacher is quite low compared to other occupations. However this is just a generalisation, not every teacher is intrinsically motivated, they may be attracted to the extrinsic factors such as job security and holiday time.
Outcomes and Inputs
Both types of motivational drives inclusde a need for some reward considering the work being done, the work is referred to as input and rewards as outputs. Inputs include anything contributed to by a person to their job, such as; knowledge, skill, ethic, behaviour etc. Employees are then rewarded and motivated with outcomes including; autonomy, promotion, pay rise accomplishment, holiday etc. Maintaining a healthy balance of input to output will benefit both school and staff alike by keeping employees motivated and hard working by increasing input to better the school in order to gain output.