Leading Organizations Through Intrinsic Motivation

Ehssan Sakhaee explains in his article the overwhelming role of intrinsic motivation for individuals, organizations, and leaders that promotes autonomy and describes the historical development of research on it. He shows which fundamental role intrinsic motivation takes within the 3-P-Model: convincing purposes animate and support intrinsic motivation, a mindset as travelling organization calls for autonomously thinking and acting people with high-quality motivation, and connectivity in the large networks needed is a lot more easily achieved between intrinsically motivated people who share the enthusiasm of a large endeavor. This is brilliantly stressed and made transparent in the following: in his book Influencing Human Behavior, Harry A. Overstreet states, “Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire … and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. (One) who can do this has the whole world with (them). (One) who cannot walk a lonely way.”