Article: 4 Reasons Good Employees Lose Their Motivation (Clark and Saxberg)

Background

The Richard E. Clark Resources page has links to 63 publications. To help you navigate them, we’ve categorized them by topic. Motivation, the first category, links to seven articles. The first one is published by Harvard Business Review, which Clark and Bror Saxberg co-wrote. In the article, the authors describe how employees can lose motivation.

Motivation: the willingness to get the job done by starting rather than procrastinating, persisting in
the face of distractions, and investing enough mental effort to succeed

Clark and Saxber

The article is divided into four traps that can ensnare employees, causing them to lose motivation:

  1. Values mismatch
  2. Lack of self-efficacy
  3. Disruptive emotions
  4. Attribution errors

With each, Clark and Saxberg propose how you can help employees out of the trap.

Link

You can find the article in the Richard E. Clark Resources Page: https://hpttreasures.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/clark-saxberg-motivation-hbr-2019.pdf

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