Every individual has different motivating factors when it comes to decisions. For some, they are motivated by intrinsic factors, and for others they are motivated by extrinsic factors such as money. For example, a dear friend of mine recently was telling me about her recent experience at work. While she was going to pick up her check one day from her boss’s office, she noticed had to go through a pile of them to find hers. While doing so, she saw how much her other co-workers were being paid. Since they all work a stipend paid job, she realized that she was being paid way less than her other coworkers. In finding this information out, she was extremely upset because she has been there the longest, and is always going above and beyond. After finding this out, and reflecting she felt very defeated and almost as though her hard work was not valued, and that she wasn’t being paid equally. I believe that in this specific scenario money is a motivator because she feels as though she is not being paid fairly for her hard work. In this situation, she went to her boss and had a conversation about her work, and was given a raise after her boss did not realize that she wasn’t making more than the others.
