So if you want productivity from your workers, motivation is what you have to foster. Individualistic needs for self-esteem, status and deserved respect. These are harder to address than simply offering stock options. Perhaps that's why workers are saying this is what they want and still aren't getting. As a result, managers and business owners aren't getting what they want, either.
Workers have minds of their own.
She acknowledges the tension between management's desire to motivate workers simply to enhance productivity and workers' perceiving productivity to be the only goal. And as a result, workers' motivation is likely at best to be shallow, uncommitted and inclined to erode. It doesn't take a behavioral scientist to see how some companies today attract, motivate and develop employees who are so dedicated they don't return calls to headhunters. The companies are addressing these human values. They offer things like generous tuition - reimbursement programs and extensive training and development.