For this task first you need to watch the video from the link below:
After you have watch it, let's do the following activities:
- Write 10 sentences using keywords related to the article.
- Then, answer these questions:
Do people can share the same motivations in life?
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
When you are ready, post your answers as a comment.
Due date: February 5th
Due date: February 5th
Sentences:
ResponderBorrar1- The behavior of a person can change depending on the reward.
2- It is unbelievably important to analyze the reason for our motivations and where they come from.
3- When you punish someone, you also lose.
4- The fact that higher incentives lead to worse performance it's an anomalous situation.
5- TEDEd's videos are outstanding.
6- Autonomy lead the workers to improve their creativity.
7- It's insane to think about the millions unemployed workers around the world.
8- To hear a "thanks" after finish your job is the most satisfying consequence.
9- the highly skilled workers are those who can be part of a team, giving and listening ideas from the other workers.
10- A purpose of this life is to find a job that you could confuse for a hobby.
About the question:
Although all people are different, there are still some who share the same motivation maybe because the city where they live, their economic condition, the things that happen in their families, etc.
What motivates me to achieve my goals its to prove that the economic situation of a person does not define what she or he can do in her or his life. I want to prove that you don't have to be graduated from the best high school of your country or have the most beautiful house in your city to be a person who can give a lot of good ideas and benefits to your country.
ResponderBorrarSentences:
1) The motivation of the employees is an important factor in the performance at work.
2) Good behavior at work helps to make good relationships with your teammates.
3) Famous athletes commonly receive the best rewards in the world.
4) If you do something wrong, you deserve to be punished.
5) Andrea is the best math student because she has very impressive cognitive skills.
6) To get more incentives you have to work better every day.
7) She already did all the tasks of her job.
8) Costa Rica is recognized because of their outstanding nature.
9) I want to create my own company to have autonomy in my work.
10) They were impressed by his mastery of the subject.
Questions:
R/ Yes I think they can but not all the people have to. Not everyone have the same interests or goals and that can change the way of how the people can be motivated.
R/ The main motivation for me is to remember me every day which is my purpose and why I am doing what I do. And for me, is to have a better life in the future, be successful and do something that really makes me happy. Family and friends are also good motivators.
1. Mostly organizations give rewards in order to get better results.
ResponderBorrar2. Researchers has found out money is not a real way to impulse motivation.
3. Money is given to employees in order to improve their performance.
4. People can do better things when they do it with autonomy.
5. Mastery motivate people because is the way how they can do what they enjoy.
6. Organizations are implementing differents ways to motivate rather just money rewards.
7. People and organizations have to change the ideology about rewards and money.
8. Sometimes people has ideas or goals that motivate them, is important give them a moment to work on it.
Questions
1. I think people do not share same motivation, people like differents things and when they lose some motivate they do what they like it order to feel motivation again.
3. My motivation is I know that I am not alone, mostly of achives I have reached my family has supported me and I think that is a good source of motivation.
First point
ResponderBorrar1. When the people tend to punish something get less of it.
2. If you have a challenge and you do really well you will get a large cash prize.
3. We have to ignore the low performers.
4. Usually the motivation is different in other countries.
5. Sometimes less work is a better pay.
6. If you have a salary is because you have more responsibilities.
7. Money is a motivator but if the boss does not pay enough they will not be motivated.
8. There are 3 factors lead to be better performance and satisfaction.
9. The companies wants a people with self-direction.
10. When the profit motivate becomes unmoored from the purpose motive.
Second point
1. Maybe at the same group of work. Also, is the motivation is big tend to have a group of people. But sometimes the motivation is just you and for you the in this case people cannot share the same motivation because only you feel the real feelings.
2. I think I am a simple man. The little things motivates me to keep going. The music motivates me but a big achieve need a big motivation.
Sentences
ResponderBorrar1- Science can be a bit freaky sometimes, you might find a result you didn't spec.
2- A common thought is that if offert a highly reward to someone, this person is gonna give you their best performance in the task you ask him to do.
3- People used to spec a better paidment if they do a task which involves a mechanical effort.
4- People hate to do any task that involves some cognitive skills.
5- The fact that people get worse at task if this task is paid with a higher reward is not anomalus.
6- Autonomy is when person want to something by himself.
7- When people take time to learn how to play a musical instrument it's because they wanted to mastered it.
8- Most of the people find satisfyng when thy are good at something.
9- A profetional wont do any job for free.
10- You should find a purpose for what you do every day.
Question:
1- No, it's something that we decided individually. For example, it the case of the studies, most of the people choose a career base on if they like it or not. They want to do something that they enjoy. On the other hand, there are some people who choose theyre career based on how much money are te they gonna win for it, they don't care if they liked or not.
2- They only thing that i want, the one that push me to achieve my degree, it that i ganna be an independient person in the future
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ResponderBorrar( ) Sentences:
ResponderBorrar- Science is really surprising, interesting but can get a little freaky!
- Actually, we are not as manipulable as we use to think.
- Rewarding people with money prizes is a typical motivation scheme.
- It's not anomalous to get worst performance due to high money incentives.
- For simple tasks, high motivators are outstanding.
- High motivator rewars don't work for conceptual and complicated task.
- Money works in a strange way as a motivator.
- Autonomy leads to a better performance.
- We like to be the best so we look for mastery on what we do.
- Sophisticated work can be done by rising the purpose at the companies.
( ) Questions:
- No. I think we all have different motivations because they are related to what we like. Every person has those special things that work as motivators for them.
- For me, a special think that motivates me is the fact of growing in a lot of abilities and knowledge. I found really motivating to accept a challenge, work hard and finally achieve the goal. But is not only by thinking about a goal itself, it's about all the things I can learn, improve... it's about the path and what happends there, all the experiences that lead us to the goal.
Sentences
ResponderBorrarThe employees are not manipulable only with money.
If a company gives rewards to his employees, they will work better.
When the boss punished an employee, he probably are going to get less of him.
An incentivise promoves the new ideas.
The salary influence the way that the employees work.
The organizations has to think how to get better ideas of the employees.
The test about the incentivise helped the companies.
The way that the brain process the incentives is anomalous in some cases.
The autonomy help us to have real goals and motivations.
If we had a purpose we have to do everything to fulfill it.
Questions
1) I think that in general all the people has a different goals in their lives, because of that all the people need a different motivation to fulfill it.
2) My motivation is the satisfaction that I get when I achieve something, and my family is close to me.
Sentences:
ResponderBorrar1. People would be better at their jobs if they have motivations
2. Feeling satisfice doing what you do, is the best reward.
3. People do a better performance when they are motivated.
4. A task become more difficult when it demands creative thinking.
5. Money isn´t always the best motivator.
6. Autonomy give you the capacity of run your own live.
7. Mastery is the need to be better at stuff.
8. Become better at what you are working at is satisfying.
9. More organizations want a purpose.
10. People would be happy in a job that let then be self-directed.
Questions:
• Yes, they do. I think, in some situations, people share goals and ambitions. They even can work together to make those goals come true, and they can be more motivated if they have someone to do it.
• What motivates me to achieve my goals is to feel satisfice with myself. I want to feel good with the person that I am, and achieve my goals makes me feel more motivated to keep self-improvement.
First part
ResponderBorrar1. Having worked for seven years in that company, she realized it wasn't making her happy.
2. The professor gave his students more autonomy for the final project than before and the results were marvelous.
3. It was a personal challenge for him to finish the marathon. Unfortunately, he got injured just before the half of the route.
4. The reporter chose to interview the accused despite of their bad behaviour.
5. My purpose for this year is to complete all levels of my english course.
6. An economic reward isn't always the most indicate for employees, they might need some other motivation.
7. Her performance during the games was even better than what the fans expected.
8. Looking at the children smiling was all she needed to feel satisfied about her job.
9. Nobody believed he could play the piano nicely, but it was his engagement what lead him to mastery.
10. The differences in salaries between different public employees is amazing nowadays.
Second part
1. Not necessarily. As the video suggested, all tasks required different reward to get done properly and it happens with people too. There can be, for example, people that find an economic reward to be the most satisfying reward in the world and some others which get enough with the recognition of their job at the end of an important project. There can also be special situations in which someone change his/her mind and require an extra motivation to get things done, such as a promotion after many years of doing the same job.
In conclusion, everybody at everytime have different needs and concerns that have to be taken in consideration to get great results at job.
2. The support of my family has always been amazing. I think that I couldn't have achieved many of the goals I have if it wasn't for them. It is why I want to return some of it to them in the future. I'm conscious that I have achieved important goals and believe that I'm capable of many more. Therefore, it is also important for me to prove how far I can get if I focus on what I love to do and always try hard. An special motivation for me is always to have time to relax with my family and friends after an important goal is achieved because it's usually then when I realize about the progress I've made and that I'm everytime closer to where I want to be in the future.