You made a great link between the field of industrial/organizational psychology,
employee motivation, and the Grand Narrative. The sentence where you
mentioned intrinsic and extrinsic motivation led me to think about Herzberg's
motivation-hygiene theory. Frederick Hertzberg developed this Two-Factor Theory
by defining motivation and hygiene factors (Miner, 2005). Motivation factor differs
from person to person, and they represent intrinsic elements such as recognition
and acknowledgment (Senyucel, 2009). The hygiene factor describes the state in
which the work is performed and represents extrinsic factors such as
compensation, work conditions, and job security (Marshall et al., 2015; Senyucel,
2009). Both motivation and hygiene factors can positively or negatively impact the
employees' motivation and, therefore, job performance.
d d d d Herzberg's motivation factor highly depends on what the individual naturally
attribute value to. This factor is a good representation of God's given free will and
the influence of nature in our decisions and choices (Wolters, 2005). On the other
hand, the hygiene factor can be seen as an environmental attempt to nurture the
employee-employer relationship. In this case, a connection can be made with the
fall where the serpent influences Eve to eat the forbidden fruit (Wolters, 2005).
The major distinction relates to the goodness, or lack of, of the outcome
promoted by the environmental influence.
References
Miner, J. B. (2005). Organizational Behavior. d M.E. Sharpe.
Marshall, T., Mottier, E., Lewis, R. (2015). d Motivational factors and the hospitality
industry: A case study examining the effects of changes in the working
environment. Journal of Business Case Studies, 11(3), 123-132.
Senyucel, Z. (2009). Managing the Human Resource in the 21st Century.
Bookboon.com.
