Non-financial motivation in the workplace

Non-financial motivations have been found to affect worker responses in experimental labour environments. Theory as well as empirical research have examined social-preference motivations— distribution of pay-offs, competitive preferences, and reciprocity— and when they matter in the workplace. Other non-financial motivators studied are respect, symbolic rewards and the role identity. The studies demonstrate that accounting for non-financial motivation in the workplace can improve performance of the workplace and employees. However, they also show the influence of motivational factors is strongly context dependent.