Question

Can an employee be effective even if he/she doesn't receive high reward levels? Is it difficult for an employee to go the extra mile and perform at the highest level without receiving a reward? How do intrinsic rewards align with meaningfulness and choice? Please explain?

Answer 1

No, I do not believe that an employee could be effective without the person recieving any good or high reward levels. Reward, being either at an extrinsic factor like salary or bonuses or intrinsic factor like job satisfaction, appreciation, culture etc plags a very important role in making the employee ho an extra mile to achieve and perform at the highest and the greatest level. Both these kind of awards play the role of motivators. These motivators are used to persuade the employee for being greedy and win the reward. This persuasion would then turn up and make the employee perform more than its capacity and motivate him to give his best to achieve the best. Thus, I would say yes it is difficult for an employee to work better and go extra without recieving any reward.

How do intrinsic rewards align with meaningfulness and choice? Please explain?

The intrinsic factors which would talk about the self satisfaction, the achievement of purpose and their value would give meaning to their purpose. It would allign with the meaningfulness of their purpose as intrinsic factors would help in determining if their purpose for the job is being or getting achieved or not and how relevant it is for the employee to achieve it or not. Intrinsic factors like the organisational culture and also the satisfaction level would also help in alligning with the choice as it tells about the degree of choice the employee would have for doing the things the right way in their job.