RE: Management is a science based on theory

["Peter Hunter" <peter@hunter-consultants.co.uk>]

Intrinsic Motivation and W Edwards Deming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzq9VOhiNQ

I have just finished listening to a recording of W Edwards Deming talking
about the difference between Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation.

Deming talks about how Extrinsic motivation, power, money, position has
replaced the intrinsic motivation that we all feel from birth, self esteem,
dignity, cooperation, curiosity and a yearning for learning.

At the beginning of our lives this intrinsic motivation is dominant but
throughout our lives these qualities are crushed and destroyed by the way we
are managed.

Deming talks about how the way to change has to be a transformation to
support this intrinsic motivation rather than what he called a patchwork
approach.

He said that if you find a fire you have to stamp it out, you can’t let it
rage, but once it is out, once the damage has been made good, have you
improved?

Or have you simply returned to the old status Quo?

The very simple message that Deming is trying to put across is that to
release the power of the human resource we have to release the power that
the workforce were born with, ignore the extrinsic motivators, and instead
nurture the intrinsic values of the workforce.

To do this we have to transform the way that we do business.

We still have to put out fires but unless we start to address the cause of
the fires then we will never progress.

Peter A Hunter
Author - Breaking the Mould