How to Hire a Champion

Chapter Eight

How Ego Needs Affect the Job Match

Now that we have investigated the measurable passions that are connected with personal investment on the job, let’s consider another key set of factors—the psychological motivators.

Workplace psychology is largely about fear and reward. If we are in the wrong role, wrong culture, or wrong environment, or if our psychological needs are not met, our fears are magnified, we are unhappy, and we tend to under-perform.

Therefore, it is important to know what makes people tick from a psychological standpoint. The following explanation of behavioral psychology as it applies to the workplace will serve ...