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0508 | Orly Lobel: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The interesting findings that we have are that motivation can be very much pushed forward, or actually hindered by the kinds of arrangements that we initially create within a firm. They’re less motivated. Their performance is worse. They spend less time on task. That can be, I think, really demotivating.

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How Leaders Can Push Employees Without Stressing Them Out

Harvard Business Review

She still does not know whether she will have a job in three months, and her new boss has been unable or unwilling to shed light on any details about Terri’s future or that of most of the legacy sales and marketing staff. In a classic article, Frederick Herzberg called these kinds of things “hygiene factors.”

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