Employee motivation is at its lowest point in years. According to Gallup’s 2024 report, only 31 percent of U.S. employees are engaged in the workplace, marking the lowest engagement level since 2014.

The authors recognized what video game designers had already learned: that people are motivated to make progress—to reach ...

If you’ve ever been stuck in a job with no direction or motivation and have felt extremely discouraged, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, there are many employees who find themselves caught in the same ...

Human resources development refers to the management, training and improvement of employees. The end goal is to sharpen current skills and teach new ones to increase efficiency. When addressed ...

Recognition isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s a psychological imperative. Discover research-backed ways to recognize and ...

Motivation in the workplace is defined as “the willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual needs” (Robbins in ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but we can assume the actual builders of the eternal city wished that it had. An admirable achievement, whether that be the construction of a great feat of architecture, or ...

Using process theory, a type of scientific observation, individuals measure how events in a specific process lead to an outcome. According to this theory, when a company wants to reproduce an outcome, ...

So much has changed in the world of work during the past few decades. How we work looks different now, and these changes have only accelerated in the past two years as the pandemic abruptly altered ...

For good things to happen in your workplace—teamwork and collaboration, productivity, trusting relationships—people must be motivated. As we explored in a previous column, motivation is much more ...