MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY
To Motivate Your Employee, Ask Her For Advice
Research: Giving Advice Motivates Us To Solve Our Problems
That’s why people can break down and start underperforming, be it in academics or at work. Sometimes, those inevitable breakdowns drag a little longer till we get stuck in the rut.
When an employee’s motivation hits rock bottom, that’s where managers begin to panic.
Why are they performing this way? Why are they not hitting their numbers? What’s the problem that’s causing them to be like this?
Is it to do with me?
Is it to do with the work environment?
For an intrinsic value like motivation, only a shift within themselves can bring it back. External motivators like bonuses and rewards are only going to be temporary.
When the effect fades off, the employee is typically more demotivated.
Does this mean that there is nothing the leader can do to permanently motivate their employees?
What a leader can do is ask the employee for advice.
In 2018, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and her team conducted a large-scale field experiment, tracking more than 1900 high school students on their academic…
