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    extrinsically? What are your intrinsic motivations? How do you balance extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in your life? In terms of extrinsic motivations, I think that I am motivated by praise, reputation, and financial gain. While money is not the most important aspect of a career, I would like to earn a salary that helps me maintain a modest living. Being self-aware, I realize that I want a career where I can help others, which is an intrinsic motivation. This is another reason why I was unhappy

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    Extrinsic motivation is where people are motivated by internal goals. An example of extrinsic motivation in my life is me going to class. I am motivated to go to class because I have external goals to graduate college with a degree. If I did not go to class, it would make this goal much harder to obtain. Another example of this in my life is going to my job. I go to job to make money, and to obtain my goal of paying off my car. If I did not have these external goals I would not have near as much

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    passage mentioned two classification of motivation and the lecture presented story about the term mentioned in it. In the reading passage , the motivation classification are provided. Motivation is the sum of needs and wants that cause person to act ,and it can be classified as extrinsic and intrinisic motivation. Externisic motivation is to do an activity to obtain areward like money or any other goods and survuces that money can borrow. Intrinistic motivation is to perform an activity for its own

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    ESSAY #2 Motivation: Extrinsic to Intrinsic Motivation is a key factor in determining business success or failure. Successful organizations relentlessly seek to operate with a clear understanding of employee needs , and develop specific focus’ on how to meet them. Two key theories in organizational motivation are expectancy theory and equity theory. Both theories focus on the outcomes of a given decision or system rather than on individual employee needs. The goal of both process

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    all of which are extrinsic rewards. According to Daniel Pink’s book Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, he writes that these extrinsic rewards are in fact not the best ways in which to obtain and maintain motivation. Pink gives a new perspective on motivation in the workplace; it is argued that human motivation is largely intrinsic and that the aspects of this motivation can be divided into autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Based on the extrinsic reward motivation theory, low financial

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    tends to have a detrimental effect on learning, resulting in a decline of intrinsic motivation and the performance of the previously unrewarded activity (Leppen, Greene & Nisbett, 1973). This outcome is coined as the ‘overjustification effect’. This result presumably occurs because children will perceive external rewards as their main motivation of performing activities, overpowering their initial intrinsic motivation (Morgen, 1983). This occurrence, similar to the ‘discounting principle’ of attribution

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    How Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation for Employees Impacts the Customer Experience Motivation takes on many forms, even in the workplace. Employee satisfaction brought on by individualized motivation methods, produces a culture of growth and harmony. A residual benefit to intentionally and methodically motivating each employee, in the manner that generates the best productivity, is that it becomes a magnet for great customer experiences. Carol Sansone and Judith Harackiewicz (2000) summarize

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    behavior (Gatenby et al., 2008). These rewards may be intrinsic and/or extrinsic. Many theorists have critically discussed the core aspects of employee motivation, concluding that intrinsic and extrinsic rewards will only be motivating if these are of value to the individual. Intrinsic motivation lies in the internal satisfaction of an individual – concerning only the enjoyment of the task itself. Whereas extrinsic motivation focuses on external outcomes, in particular financial rewards (Psycnet

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    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article about nurturing motivation. The writer did an excellent job in explaining that children need to rely more on intrinsic motivation rather than awards that are not always given out to show recognition. The author reinforced my pedagogy by explaining “the key to preserving (not creating) intrinsic motivation is to nurture students to move to the next level.” (2018) I have always believed that we as teachers need to give our students a reason to be motivated

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    observed in my life and intrigued me to write about falls under the emotion and motivation chapter. More specifically extrinsic motivation, which comes from outside of each individual person and is a behavior that that comes from external rewards those such as grades, trophies, promotion at your job so you earn more money, praise and other tangible rewards throughout life. In my life, I have observed extrinsic motivation in many different way. The first way that I have noticed this in my life is grades

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