The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation

Business research and practice have emphasized the value of intrinsic motivation for over 50 years. In this paper, I argue that valuation can unintended negative consequences employees. Specifically, suggest employees may internalize ways their colleagues, leaders, organizations, society come to associate it with superior morality. conceptualize process as moralization describe how shapes employees’ judgments behaviors toward others themselves in domains performance appraisal, cooperation, engagement. This contributes management literature by investigating (a) social nature motivation, (b) intrapersonal interpersonal outcomes our long-standing emphasis on (c) relative disadvantages who do not—and cannot—experience motivation. end discussing role business education potentially reducing its impacts.