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 ...

All consumers want to feel appreciated at work, and getting a little extra incentive can help boost morale and workplace performance. However, when some employees get more of an incentive than others, ...

Managers in the field of laboratory animal science struggle daily with issues of budgeting and cost control. Despite managers' efforts to control direct costs, an indirect cost of operating an animal ...

Motivation isn’t a character trait. It’s a state of mind. Here’s how to encourage that state of mind in your employees. That’s why a deep dive into the inner workings of motivation is the key to ...

Illegitimate tasks refer to duties perceived as unnecessary or unreasonable in relation to one’s professional role. When such tasks accumulate, employees often experience the situation as unfair.

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.

If movement is requisite for life, then absolute stillness is perquisite to death. A simple definition of “motivation” could very well be cause to move towards. If, in your day-to-day, you find ...

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." —Dwight D. Eisenhower In an era where remote work and education are becoming the norm, ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Navigating mental health in the workplace can sometimes be a challenge. In this week’s Monday Motivation, Self-Care Coach Reketta Brown with Thrive Foundation shows us ways to ...

A March 18, 2022 blog post for teambuilding.com recommends 22 motivational songs for work. (No. 1 is “Eye of the Tiger” from Rocky III.) The company’s marketing coordinator Angela Robinson says ...