Motivation issue in G11n group

Many young people don't want to do testing because they think coding is
more challenging or interesting, and many people don't want to do
localization because they think localization is mainly about
translation, is very repetitive and also not technical, unfortunately,
both of these happen in Globalization group, most of our day to day
work is about localization testing, so, how to motivate people in such
a group?



According to Herzgerg's two factor theory, Hygiene factors are sources
of job dissatisfaction while Motivator factors are sources of job
satisfaction, the Hygiene factors or dissatisfaction factors are
associated with the job context or work setting; they relate more to
the environment in which people work than to the nature of the work
itself.  While the Motivator factors are associated with the job
content or work itself - if you want people to do a good job, you
should give people a good job to do.

Improving a hygiene factor, such as working conditions, will not make
people satisfied with their work; it will only prevent them from being
dissatisfied, a low salary makes people dissatisfied but that
paying them more does not necessarily satisfy or motivate them.



So let's take a look at the Motivator factors: Achievement,
recognition, work itself, responsibility, advancement, growth, as what
I said at the beginning, work itself in G11n group is not very
interesting to many people, so we have to think more about how to
improve the other factors ... (To be continued)

Posted at 08:59AM Oct 29, 2006 by byuan in Leadership  |  Comments[0]