Motivation and engagement:
Same or different? Does it matter?
Motivation is different than engagement. An employee might be engaged in
something but not absorbed in it because he or she is feeling a sense of
"have to." Motivation is the "why" or reason we act;
engagement is typically the "what." However, engagement can also be
an emotional commitment. Consider the things that motivate us to be engaged or
disengaged.
What motivates us to be emotionally committed to
something, like the quest for safety excellence, and what motivates us to care
less about something else? The problem is often two-fold. First, there is
rarely a documented agreement about what engagement really means or what is
should look like if it existed in employee or leadership behaviors. Second,
efforts to increase motivation tend to start with external nudges edicts or incentives - rather than looking at
the environment or identifying what currently demotivates the desired
motivation and engagement.
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