What are the most effective methods of motivating IT staff?

A lot of work, research and articles are devoted to staff motivation issues (including IT). For someone, the financial component is a powerful incentive, someone is motivated to move forward with the desire to improve themselves, their skills, or the desire to reach the top of the career ladder ...

But Dale Carnegie also wrote: “In the world, there is only one way to encourage someone to do something ... And it is to make another person want to do it. Remember - there is no other way. ”

Perhaps many will disagree, saying that intrinsic motivation is not always the strongest. However, in most cases, it is she who is the lever that encourages us to action.
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Of particular importance is the internal motivation of staff in the field of IT. It is representatives of technical specialties who are more likely to refuse good earnings if they are not interested in their work.

In order to clarify public opinion on the issue of motivation in general (for employees in different areas), I decided not to interview representatives of the personnel department, but those who are the direct object of motivational schemes. To this end, I conducted a survey on facebook .

In total 1074 answers were given (1 person could choose several answers) . Variants of answers were offered by survey participants independently.

Here are the results:


The three leaders were led by the following incentives: interest (28%), good team (16%), pleasure (13%). No less significant for people are factors such as lack of control and pressure, drive and deep moral satisfaction, the prospect of the case, its usefulness, self-realization and the need for creativity.

It is interesting to analyze the motivation of people in the field of IT and share insights.

Dear Habr readers, what motivates you most of all for productive work in the project? Please share your opinion in the comments.