The Motivation Toolkit: How to Align Your Employees' Interests with Your Own - Hardcover

With characteristic rigor and insight, David Kreps explains the foundations, both economic and psychological, of the relationship between employer and employee, and provides the serious leader with a flexible toolkit they can tailor to their situation.--John Donahoe, CEO of ServiceNow and former CEO of eBay Artfully details the enormous complexities involved in achieving employee alignment, and provides a variety of situation-dependent tools to help ensure that an organization's human capital is empowered to meet its long-term objectives.--Steven A. Denning, chairman of General Atlantic This short book is quite long on practical advice about motivation, a complex subject that is often oversimplified. Drawing on his comprehensive expertise, as well as revealing studies of how high-performing executives and ambitious MBA students respond to various motivators, David Kreps gives managers a number of thoughtful tools.--Gene Sykes, managing director at Goldman Sachs and CEO of LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Bid Committee

Employee motivation is one of the cornerstones of any successful firm, yet it can be devilishly complex to nurture in a consistent and constructive manner. In The Motivation Toolkit David Kreps distills decades of experience and research to highlight the elements of employee motivation. Kreps begins by walking readers through leading economic and psychological theories of motivation, from the economic theory of incentives to the social psychological theory of self-determination. He then shows how to successfully navigate between these theories. Kreps challenges managers (and aspiring managers) to think rigorously about their specific organisation, and shares enduring insights into effective leadership and organisational prosperity.