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Argues that employers need to find a way to satisfy the basic need to innovate, achieve goals, master skills, work with a team, and feel protected in order to motivate workers and promote optimal employee productivity and provides proven techniques and strategies for fulfilling those needs.

In Not Just For the Money Professor Frey challenges traditional economic theory and argues that people do not act in expectation of monetary gain alone, nor do they work solely because they are paid. Furthermore the author claims that higher monetary compensation as well as regulations crowd-out motivation in important circumstances. Offering higher pay may make people less committed to their work and may reduce their performance. They thus behave...