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Notes on video lecture:
What Motivates Us to Do Work
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 10, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
prisoners, see, camaraderie, lower, work, build, meaning, deflated, table, new, tangible, editor, bionicals, chokes, progress, Sisyphus, demotivated, accomplishment, books, predict, mice, dismantle, consultant, four, happiness, money, meaningful, merger, joy, motivate, motivation, misery, correlation, degree, painful, cancelled, bottom
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labor and motivation
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what gets people to         
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we often think it is mainly about           
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we think more money leads to a higher amount of work
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motivation
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standard thinking is that people are like          in a maze
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we think all we care about is the particular                  reward we are getting
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there are some jobs that people do just for the money
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but human nature has all kinds of drivers that can change our                     
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completion
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connection
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goals
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pride
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reputation
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sense of purpose
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life meaning
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feeling you are doing something for the world
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mountain climbing
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when you look at mountain climbing and you read their           
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these books are often long descriptions of pure             
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frost bite
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difficult to breathe
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it's tough
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it's               
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rock climbers often don't describe their experiences as                    but they are incredibly motivating experiences
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yet people are getting some        from mountain climbing
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sense of accomplishment
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achievement
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overcoming nature
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proving something to yourself
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it would be different if
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you knew you could never reach the top
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you knew when you reached the              again, your memory would be erased
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the issue of               
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sometimes we give people money in order to                  them in another way as well
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story
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a person works on Wall street
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spends weeks preparing for a presentation for a             
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finishes with a sense of                             
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sends the presentation stack to his boss
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boss response "thank you, but the merger has been                   "
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this person feels                 
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the boss gives him a raise for the good work he did on the presentation
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person still feels                       
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his creation is never going to have any use and nobody else is ever going to        it
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he is demotivated to work on other projects
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story
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woman works at              in a university press agency
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worked on a history book for a long time
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when they handed the final manuscript out the publisher decided not to print it
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she was demotivated
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story
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many university professors spend years on works which they publish and nobody reads
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we are motivated to do things we find meaningful
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experiment
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legos and                   
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asked people to build bionicals for money
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first group
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if you            this one we will pay you $3.00
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they built it
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then we asked if they would like to build another one for $2.70
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after each of them are built, we would put the one they build under the           
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we kept offering to pay them to build these for increasingly            prices: $2.40, $2.10, etc.
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at some point they stopped
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they stopped
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reminds us of the Myth of                 
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doing the same thing again and again with no sense of progress
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if the rock fell to the bottom of a        hill, you might feel some progress, but because it is the same hill, makes the task meaningless
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doing the same task over and over without a sense of                  can be the ultimate demotivator
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guards do this to                   
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dig a hole, fill it in
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move rocks, move them back
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the uselessness of work will demotivate people
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second group
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do you want to build a bionical for $3.00 and so on lower and lower as the first group
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but we would                    them and put the pieces back in the box for them to use again
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people stop quicker building these the less meaning they see in it
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result: we can extrapolate that one needs to pay people less the                      a job is
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the                      experiment
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people would                how much people would work in the meaningful and the Sysiphic condition
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consultants predicted that those building bionicals in the meaningful condition would produce more
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but they predicted that it would be more by about one bionical but it was about         
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result: people understand the role of meaning in work, but they don't understand the              to which it is important
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another question:
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how much does one's love of Legos affect the number built?
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expected to find a positive                       
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found this in the meaningful condition
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not in the meaningless condition
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the meaningless condition              the joy even a joy they previously had

Spelling Corrections:

comraderie ⇒ camaraderie
The Simple Model of Dishonesty
Why People Cheat and Its Economic Impact
Conflicts of Interest
What Motivates Us to Do Work
The Value of Meaning in Work
How Effort Leads to Fondness of the End Result