101 Business Ideas That Will Change the Way You Work

IDEA #81

Progress – the most important motivator of all

The strongest driver of job happiness is when an employee feels as if progress is being made.

What you need to know

Teresa Amabile, a professor of business administration at Harvard University, and Steven Kramer, a psychologist, undertook a decade-long research project into what makes people tick in the workplace. Covering 238 individuals across 26 projects, seven companies and three industries, the core of Amabile and Kramer’s research focused on more than 12,000 work diary entries and daily rankings of individuals’ emotional and motivational levels. Expecting to find manager recognition ...