Money and motivation

Is it related?

For me, yes, but not entirely true. That’s depend on personality, conditions, age, responsibility, and other factors as well.

See this

· Taylor’s scientific management (1911)

Workers are motivated mainly by money
Suggested piece-rate system

· Maslow’s theory (1943)

People are motivated by hierarchy of needs, which includes money

· Herzberg (1959)

Money either dissatisfies or is neutral in its effect

But from this blog

~ Money does not create motivation. But it can produce movement.

~ Money and motivation are not linked. If people don’t like the work they do there must be a reason. They may be doing it because they don’t have a choice; because they have to food on their table.

~ The reality is that most people work because they need to feed their family and pay the rent and one has to respect that. Loving your work, finding purpose in what you do, is a real privilege. One cannot role down the window at an intersection and ask the poor person begging on the street there what their purpose is. That would be disrespectful. People who are desperate are not thinking of purpose. They are thinking about survival.

For me, motivation is something that triggers you to do something that you won’t do otherwise. The struggle you had to do to achieve what you want is a motivation. But motivation is to create something better. To achieve more than what you already have. It’s not a matter of survival or necessity anymore, but to create more.

Like if you have enough of everything, and you do not find the necessity to find more money, money won’t be your motivation then. but money will be your motivation when you want to be more rich than you already have.

But it is different when you having difficulties to find money and even to find food is hard enough for you, money is not motivation. It becomes the matter of survival. What matter is able to eat to live for the next day.

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