What truly inspires individuals to perform at their very best? When it comes to motivating others and ourselves, it turns out offering rewards in defined categories, even when they are largely ...

When an employee does something in hopes that it will result in a tangible, external reward or outcome, it’s considered to be extrinsically motivated. Such stimuli typically come from an outside ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Flawed assumptions about what motivates people to work can lead to counterproductive management tactics, argues new research from MIT Sloan Management ...

I know we’ve talked about how rewards affect student motivation many times before, but this article in the American Educator approaches the question “should learning be its own reward?” from the ...