{"id":601,"date":"2011-06-01T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=601"},"modified":"2016-01-24T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:50:08","slug":"leaders-cannot-motivate-their-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Cannot Motivate Their Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Dranitsaris is a &#8220;corporate therapist, author and creator of the Striving Styles Personality System&#8221; whose website can be found at http:\/\/strivingstyles.com\/the-art-of-not-demotivating-your-employees\/<br \/>\nSo far, so standard. Except, Ms. Dranitsaris has an intriguing theorem. She believes that leaders cannot motivate people, more specifically their employees.<br \/>\nInstead, she advises leaders to refrain from demotivating employees. Imagine that, in one fell swoop she dismisses bonuses, Christmas parties, designated parking spots, Hawaiian shirt days* and&#8230; well, I am exaggerating (probably), but her notion is extraordinary and brave.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Dranitsaris&#8217; assertion is that motivation an emotional issue and not a rational decision. As such, it is impossible for a leader to make or create motivation. Moreover, motivating employees creates dependence.<br \/>\nInstead, she advises leaders to not demotivate employees by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not overwhelming employees with work and not set an example of living (overstaying) in the office<\/li>\n<li>Showing appreciation for employees, but not to be patronizing.<\/li>\n<li>Not micromanage. Nit-picking leads to anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>Not devalue. Cut back on the sarcasm and do not summarily dismiss ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Do not allow employees to feel helpless. Nepotism, old boys network, favouritism and even fostering of competition are upsetting to employees. This last notion jives somehow with Daniel Pink&#8217;s assertion&#8217;s regarding employees and allowing them freedom, but one wonders how much Ms. Dranitsaris&#8217; ideas coincide with Pink&#8217;s ideas that differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, she insists that employees need to know what they are doing and what is expected of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How controversial is the notion that leaders cannot and should not try to directly motivate employees and that motivation should be self-directed within the right environment?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>*Things That Need To Go Away: designated parking spots and Hawaiian (or any theme) short days &#8211; unless a sales team actually wants them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Dranitsaris is a &#8220;corporate therapist, author and creator of the Striving Styles Personality System&#8221; whose website can be found at http:\/\/strivingstyles.com\/the-art-of-not-demotivating-your-employees\/ So far, so standard. Except, Ms. Dranitsaris has an intriguing theorem. She believes that leaders cannot motivate people, more specifically their employees. Instead, she advises leaders to refrain from demotivating employees. Imagine that, <a href='https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=601' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Ali Ghaemi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}