Motivation and Leadership

Abstract

This study attempts to explain the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation at both the motivational and leadership levels and use it as a guide to enlighten leaders on how they should build and motivate their team members. The study will investigate the motivational factors and leadership factors separately through interviews. The research revealed that intrinsic factors are the main motivators for young people to continue working, while extrinsic factors have more of an impact on older people. Meanwhile, leadership, as an extrinsic factor, has an important impact on team members, with good leadership tending to meet the intrinsic needs of team members and bad leadership generally ignoring the extrinsic needs of members. Research has concluded that leaders should choose to motivate people who are already motivated as they are more valuable and more likely to be motivated. Also leaders should establish motivational environments where a good extrinsic environment will promote motivation among team members, as opposed to a bad environment that negatively affects productivity.