Motivators are a collection of learned attitudes and beliefs. They provide an individual with information regarding which motivators are most important to him at the present time. There are many attitudes and beliefs. This report provides feedback on motivators identified originally by Edward Spranger and additional research by Gordon W. Alport and Philip E. Vernon. Individuals and corporations use motivators for goal setting, management development, team building, decision-making, and other important areas throughout an organization. Recent studies indicate that motivators are flexible. As a result this allows employees to adapt to the motivational system of an organization.

 

There are six motivators in this model: 

1. (Conceptual) 

2. (Aesthetic) 

3. (Economic) 

4. (Power & Authority) 

5. (Social) 

6. (Doctrine). 

These Motivators, like behaviors, can be viewed in degrees of intensity. Your personal motivators are reported here on a 100- point scale.

The intensity of each motivator is determined by the importance placed on it by our personal priorities. Motivators can be flexible and will often change throughout our career and life. As an individual’s situation changes, the priorities of their motivators tend to change also.

The closer individuals motivators are to the norm, the easier it becomes for individuals to understand and appreciate the motivators that are charted on their graphic scale.The further an individual’s score is from a specific motivator’s norm, the greater emotional investment individuals have in that particular motivator. Having a motivator with a score below the 50th percentile on the graphic scale does not necessarily indicate an individual has little interest or emotional feeling invested in this motivator, but that at the present time it has a lesser priority. Individuals will often have more difficulty understanding the motivators of others that are very different from their own.

Since motivators are judgment free, they are suggestive of what we hold as individuals to be important. They are what give us a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Motivators add depth and dimension to behaviors by providing insight into “why we do what we do.” Psychologists often refer to the motivators as the initiators of behavior.