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2 Forms of Motivation

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Chris Crouch discusses motivational strategies in his article. In COMM 292 we learned about all the motivational theories and the benefits and drawbacks of each method. Crouch analyzes these theories and discovers that they each fall into one of the two categories. The categories he introduces are controlling strategies and autonomy supportive strategies. Controlling strategies are motivation theories that encourage people through offering rewards or threatening punishment (Crouch 2017). These theories are best used on those who are extrinsically motivated. Also, they only produce short-term results for companies because in…read more

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