Looking To Increase Employee Performance?: Motivation Is Critical

What's an organization to do when all of its honest and genuine efforts to motivate Sally and Sam to come to work on time, work safely, deliver efficient services, and act as if they were happy to be a part of the team, fail? There is no shortage of pop-psych books and motivational speakers who'll tell a thousand-and-one ways to light a fire in Sam's belly. But what to do when the fire goes out and none of those thousand-and-one ways seem to work any more? What is meant by motivation? This paper will help to understand this better.