Response to Vanderkam article "What Drives Us"

Vanderkam reviews Pink's book, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us", and thoughts in her own article "What Drives Us". The old motivation system, of working for a reward, was successful back in the day when a majority of jobs were simple factory jobs where no thought process needed to be used and muscle memory could perform assembly line tasks. However, in today's day and age, it has been discovered that intrinsic motivation, which is when people are motivated to do their work because it is fulfilling to them, is the most productive for workers. Intrinsic motivation not only takes an employee's thought process off of the money they earn per task or hour, but also allows for people to be more creative and productive because they are working in an environment that encourages them to do their personal best. Yet, even though intrinsic motivation takes some focus off of the factor of money, money is still considered an external factor. Therefore, external and intrinsic motivators have to balance to some degree. For example, Google has "20 percent time" program in which its employee's have the right to work on a project of choice one day a week. All in all, people need to be placed in a motivational environment where they can feel free enough to come up with organic, creative, ideas, and where they don't feel the pressure of a reward being at stake, in order to be the most productive.