Nonfinancial incentives

Nonfinancial incentives can be such things as the use of praise, knowledge of results (output), competition, experience of progress, experience of achievement, or granting a request. Some of the most powerful motivators are achievement, recognition, a person s work or task, responsibility, and growth potential. 

These motivators can become functional by giving workers more control, while at the same time holding them accountable. You can make them more accountable by making them responsible for a discrete outcome, or allowing them additional authority. You will also be more successful if you personally keep the people you are trying to motivate informed instead of through someone else. Challenge them with more difficult tasks and allow them to become specialized in a certain area. 

Communications including interpersonal relations, employers or supervisors, promotion or recognition, work conditions, and status are some external factors 

FIGURE 6.1 Safety and health poster. (Source Courtesy of the National Mine Health and 

It is evident that we spend a large portion of onr lives either motivating ourselves or trying to motivate someone else. Hopefnlly yon have gained some insight into ways that you can be more effective at motivating yonrself and others. In summary, some of the key traits believed to be critical to understanding how to motivate people are 

Nonfinancial incentives can be such things as the use of praise, knowledge of results (output), competition, experience of progress, experience of achievement, or 

Communications including interpersonal relations, employers/supervisois, promotion/recognition, work conditions, and status are some external factors which motivate people. The personal or internal motivators are those things which give more fieedom of choice of activity, freedom fiom criticism, work environment choice of peers, fewer status factors, less supervisor or employee conflict and more opportunity to be oneself. 

What people do seems logical and rational to them. 

To each individual, the most important person is one s self 

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