Motivational Management: Inspiring Your People for Maximum Performance

Summary

As a motivational manager, you need informative feedback about your efforts to boost intrinsic motivation and inspire your people to perform exceptionally well. If you don't measure their level of motivation, then you are working in the dark. One good way to create an informative scoreboard for yourself is to fill in the Job Motivation Level (JML) Inventory (Exhibit A-1), a short questionnaire that breaks employee motivation down into seven separate factors and uses descriptive statements to represent each. The result of this exercise is seven separate scores, one for each of the JML components. These scores can be summed to get an overall score that gives you a good indicator of overall motivation level in your group of employees. You ...