iz monie bad for motivation

[!Luck]

Do you find you are more or less motivated after you get:
1) A decent raise
2) A promo
3) 1&2
4) A shitty raise

[spoonitnow]

Raise deez nuts

[givememyleg]

If money is the only motivator for anything that you spend a significant time doing, you will most likely end up hating it, regardless of raises, bonuses, or whatever. But alas, I've never been paid millions to do something, so can't speak on that level.

[givememyleg]

Also, I voted that you are an r tard because your title, poll, and question in thread don't match up and tilt me.

[eugmac]

i hate blanket statements like this. i have done impassioned, hard work for free as long it was for a good cause, and i've done bored uninspired work for money as well. i guess money creates an incentive to do really boring horrible work though.

[rong]

Diminishing marginal utility of money has a huge effect here. If you work for min wage and get a 50% pay rise I'm sure you'll work your ass off to keep that job. not sure the same can be said if you earn 500k pa.

[Luco]

Option 3 in the poll AINEC

[MadMojoMonkey]

money creates an incentive to do really boring horrible work though.

LOL

If you work for min wage and get a 50% pay rise I'm sure you'll work your ass off to keep that job.

Nope, this happened to me. The job was boring, the bosses were dumb and the work was tedious. The quality of my work was, "Don't give them a reason to fire you today." both before and after the raise.

Contrast with what I'm doing now. I'd work as hard for half as much.

[rong]

But that job was never long term for you (I'm guessing), contrast that with someone with no career prospects in a dead end factory job or whatever.

[d0zer]

Intrinsic motivations are always more powerful than extrinsic.

[a500lbgorilla]

I dunno. I'm sure money can motivate me. And I'm sure money can not motivate me.

In either way, for the long game, I'm sure d4ven has the right of it.

[!Luck]

What I was getting at is that sometimes getting a raise reduces your motivation. I suspect for me I realize that it's still the same shit different day and since money is a poor motivator I lose hope. This especially becomes true once you cross your personal threshold for where money stops to matter as much. I'm lucky that I grew up fairly poor so my enough has been crossed. Any raises I get is just more savings, and that's not that much fun.

[eugmac]

I don't really understand how a raise can reduce motivation, unless you're so high up that there are no more possible raises/promotions possible in your field. Say you're not an employee but self-employed/run your own a business, it's much clearer - the more you do, the more money you can make to compensate your labour. There's nothing more demotivating than working your ass off and then not getting a raise, or getting an insufficient one. This should be painfully obvious.

[a500lbgorilla]

I could see a meager raise being a motivator assuming everyone else's raise was larger and merit based.

In some sense, I'd probably believe myself capable of achieving a larger raise next time round.

[bigred]

I think the better question would be "Is money a good motivator?". I don't think it's a bad motivator. It certainly drives many people. However, I don't think it is as good a motivator as sense of fulfillment, community, recognition, learning, etc.

[givememyleg]

but does it get you hookers n blow? yes.

[EasyT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek...re_action.html