Motivation can solve three types of performance
problems: 1) people are refusing to change; and/or 2)
allowing themselves to be distracted and not persist at
a key task; and/or 3) treating a novel task as familiar,
making mistakes but not investing mental effort and
taking responsibility because of overconfidence.
Everyone is motivated to do or value whatever they
believe will make us effective or successful. The
challenge is to find ways to support the great variety
of different individual and cultural beliefs held by
different people about success and what makes them
effective at work. After describing a number of general
strategies for fostering individual motivation, the
article focuses on the unique motivational issues faced
by teams and how to overcome them. pdf
