What motivates employees?

Lot of engineers are caught in monotonous jobs and employers see motivation as one of the biggest challenge. Traditionally, almost every employer is following "Higher the reward - Higher the performance". But does this really work in the modern world? MIT study has some interesting observations. Have a look at following video (Must Watch & Highly Recommended for EVERYONE) -  <div>#-Link-Snipped-#<br /><br /> <div><object id="kbvideo" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="380" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="flashvars" value="file=https://208.116.9.205/10/content/22673/450.flv&height=380&width=480&displayheight=360&displaywidth=480&frontcolor=0xffffff&backcolor=0x000000&lightcolor=0xffffff&plugins=gapro-1,/show/plugins/kb/kbsocial_1.swf&gapro.accountid=UA-3505072-1&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.tracktime=true&gapro.trackcompletes=true&gapro.trackdetails=true&gapro.trackerror=true&shuffle=false&overstretch=false&autostart=true&repeat=list&javascriptid=kbvideo&enablejs=true&customKb=true&kb_engagement_url=https://kontraband.com/videos/22673/Dan-Pink-Drive&kb_engagement_title=Dan Pink - Drive&kb_contentid=22673" /><param name="src" value="https://www.kontraband.com/show/4.5.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><embed id="kbvideo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="380" src="https://www.kontraband.com/show/4.5.swf" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=https://208.116.9.205/10/content/22673/450.flv&height=380&width=480&displayheight=360&displaywidth=480&frontcolor=0xffffff&backcolor=0x000000&lightcolor=0xffffff&plugins=gapro-1,/show/plugins/kb/kbsocial_1.swf&gapro.accountid=UA-3505072-1&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.tracktime=true&gapro.trackcompletes=true&gapro.trackdetails=true&gapro.trackerror=true&shuffle=false&overstretch=false&autostart=true&repeat=list&javascriptid=kbvideo&enablejs=true&customKb=true&kb_engagement_url=https://kontraband.com/videos/22673/Dan-Pink-Drive&kb_engagement_title=Dan Pink - Drive&kb_contentid=22673" name="kbvideo"></embed></object></div> <p> </div>