ABSTRACT
How can a manager, a consultant, or an individual begin to improve motivation? Using what we understand about motivation, we first diagnose problems and opportunities in the current situation and then determine appropriate solutions. We can do this for a work group or for a single individual. Unlike the car analogy where very little is known about why the car won’t start, we have now learned quite a bit about how the motivation process works and can identify the likely source of a problem.
