In an article titled, “What Really Motivates Workers” in the January-February 2010 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Amabile & Kramer (2010) invited over 600 managers from dozens of companies to rank the impact on employee motivation and emotions of five workplace factors: recognition, incentives, interpersonal support, support for making progress, and clear goals The #1 ranking of the managers was “recognition for good work.” However, and this surprised me, from their mu