How to Motivate Your Employees

It’s an open secret really, and all it takes is five minutes. Tell your employees you value and appreciate their work, and that simple exchange is likely to dramatically increase their productivity.

Wharton management professor Adam Grant, disclosed this much-known, but hardly practiced concept in a series of research papers on what motivates employees. Grant says, “Employees who know how their work has a meaningful, positive impact on others are not just happier than those who don’t; they are vastly more productive, too.”

Forbes.com gives more results from Grant’s study.