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The Science of Productivity and Motivation
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Feeling motivated at work feels good, and it's good for business. But employees and managers don't always see eye-to-eye on this very important topic.Feeling motivated at work feels good, and it's good for business. But employees and managers don't always see eye-to-eye on this very important topic, as behavioral economist Dan Ariely explains. Managers too often associate motivation with efficiency - since their goal is typically to run the company more efficiently - and try to achieve efficiency by automating workflow and prioritizing short-term goals. Those efforts, however, tend to demotivate employees. Managers should encourage workers to use their creative energies, rather than be automatons, and help them set long term goals, which according to Ariely are the real key to motivation and satisfaction.
Ariely's newest book is Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations.
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DAN ARIELY :
Dan Ariely is the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight and co-founder of BEworks, which helps business leaders apply scientific thinking to their marketing and operational challenges. His books include Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, both of which became New York Times best-sellers. as well as The Honest Truth about Dishonesty and his latest, Irrationally Yours.
Ariely publishes widely in the leading scholarly journals in economics, psychology, and business. His work has been featured in a variety of media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Business 2.0, Scientific American, Science and CNN.
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Dan Ariely: So the reality is that businesses are complex. People do lots of things. We need to change lots of things all the time. And everybody is stressed for time. So we start treating things a bit more mechanical. People are automatons and they are producing some gadgets or they’re making some output. And part of it is lack of time, part of it is lack of attention. But there’s a consequence I think we’re really killing the motivation that the people have. I think that this idea that we need to from the company to employees say thank you more frequently. Saying we’ve seen your effort, here’s what you contributed to. Here is your name connected to it is important. The other things we don’t spend enough time on is the commitment of the team members to each other. Again we had this functional view. We’re paying for your time. Come here but we don’t really get people’s minds and souls and so on. And one way to do it is to get the team members. I was in California not too long ago and I was visiting a startup and I asked them how often do they stay after midnight working. And they said quite often and they told me that the night before they stayed until they said after midnight. I said how did it work out? And they said that one of the team members was late on something and she was going to stay until late. And the other team members decided out of camaraderie to stay with her.
And one of the guys said he called his wife and said sorry, I’m going to stay until late. They have two little kids. And he said I have to help Maria finish this. And he said if it was for his project his wife would have been pissed off with him. But because he was helping somebody else it was actually a good thing, right. Now think about what it means. We have this notion of social utility. The fact that we care about the other people around us sometimes more than we care about ourselves is an incredibly important element. And that is about true team spirit where people deeply care about each other and they’re willing to do sacrifices to help other people that they might not do for themselves. And maybe the last thing but the most important one is to understand that as we move more and more to the knowledge economy life and effort and motivation is about goodwill. You know if you worked for me and you did something incredibly basic maybe I don’t care about your goodwill. But as we move to the knowledge economy you can modulate your efforts and attention and care to such a degree that the question is how do I get goodwill. So you can get somebody to sit there and code but how do you get them to truly care, to truly think about the problem. To truly try out, to try and learn something.
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I would love to ready your book! And an audio book would be perfect! Thanks for the video!!
How do we motivate people who are being exploited to work even harder? The first scenario you explained is basically a method of putting employes up against each other by guilting them to work more by making them think they are helping each other, and that going home to you're kids when you are off work is not the right thing to do. This has been done to me everywhere I have worked in retail, I have stayed when I have been exhausted to help my friends which has benefitted the business of the huge corporations I worked for
@kixxalot
7 жыл бұрын
Majken Ulvåg Excellent observation. The core issue is that if you are not rewarded for the quality of your work but only for the time you are present, then unpaid overtime makes no sense whatsoever.
Great video! Some very interesting points are made. As the video states, the changes in the work environment will force us to reconsider how productivity and motivation are managed. I fell like is going to be a hot topic in the years to come
Who does that hamster work for? He's highly motivated.
@J4ckCr0w
7 жыл бұрын
Bruce Dunn Hamsters control the universe.
The alienation of the worker is inherit in the the current system.
Dan is the Man!
Motivating others to joyfully paint the fence.
I used to work at "goodwill" the place is a joke. They sell donated items at ridiculous prices, the management get paid commission so this is influenced but the normal employee is only paid hourly... min wage with no chance of raise. that is how the workplace seems to be nowadays, If you can put someone else down to make your life better, it's expected that you do so.
Dan Areily is great, I love this man. And I am straight. 😁😀
great double thumbs up!
04:25 that Was incredible
ya know what's a good motivator?pay a decent wage . that shows appreciation more than anything.
Added to watch later
Trust me - if you as an employee carry goodwill you will crushed. He is right but it must be top down and systematized and scaled
Although people are sophisticated, big-headed in their "knowledge and learning," versed in contemporary manners, and in new ways of relating one to another, basically, people all those years ago were the same as ourselves. They were controlled and motivated entirely by their TWIN IMPULSES of human nature: Bonding-Rejection Desires-Repulsions even as we are. They loved, hated, criticized, condemned, slandered, gossiped, possessed ambitions to rise to the top of society, despised those who were failures in life, slept around and taunted those who were different in any way to themselves.
actually an upgrade of Ryan & Deci's Self-determination theory
I would love to be the worst employee at my job because not only would that have me worried about getting fired and there wouldn't be anyone lazier than me getting away with it for me to be envious of, but every one else would be better than me and screwing up/off a whole lot less making my job easier while I'm trying harder. As it turns out I am told that I am one of the better employees and I just think all day about how I can justify knocking my efforts down to equal the coworkers who's laziness, ignorance and apathy are making my days more difficult than they need to be.
Truth is, those employees are being exploited
And what to do when only small tasks ever give you satisfaction. I mean long-term projects have absolutely the same achievement "umph" for me as small tasks. Even less usually because of expectations.
@PTrey
7 жыл бұрын
Perhaps find work that consists mostly of small tasks? Or, maybe divide long term projects into a series of short term goals.
@vitovtwik
7 жыл бұрын
No, I'm fine, thanks. Just they always say "dream big" or smth, and I can't get it.
that's some professional looking hamster
Stop measuring and treat people like human beings.
If you are working for a capitalist exploiting your labour, then why would you feel motivated. This is why cooperative businesses are often more successful. Because people work for themselves.
Not first
@johnd8707
7 жыл бұрын
SSSHHHH
@DamirSecki
7 жыл бұрын
I am - first!
Is this a repeat upload?
@63Baggies
7 жыл бұрын
Hugh Glass This post should be required viewing for all HR and Comliance personnel.
wages and raises.....now its, "you get a paycheck stop complaining" just awful
@Hermboldt
7 жыл бұрын
at my previous job, I trained in the new people. I was pretty good at it and the management realized this but never cared to do anything other than tell me "good job" I could care less if she said that shit, I wanted a raise.
@DarkMustard1337
7 жыл бұрын
Amen dude...igot a manager raise once of 20 cents lol
don't spend too much time doing repetitive stuff like responding to overflowing volume of emails
Time is an Illusion, haven't you seen the new Dr. Strange.... I will never say I am helping another female co-worker to my partner
Too bad that while this kinds of job productivity "tips" are starting to have its baby steps, automation is going to take flight at the same time, rendering all obsolete...
He lost me at caring about other people more than myself.....i cant relate at all. I'm selfish as fuck hahahaha
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Maybe it's just me but I think a lot of big think videos don't make a point. Like you don't get much value from it. I expect much better from a scientific channel. There lot of regular you tubers making much more coherent videos that give you value for the time. Again maybe I think it's just me misssing the message
i can't listen to that horrible accent