Motivation for Staff too?

Have been very busy, these few weeks. Working late almost everyday... and strangely I am not busying with my normal markings and student affairs related matters. Instead a lot of paper work and admin stuff... like organising a talk, meet parent session, competition and etc... can you imagine the kind of logistics and time i have to throw in?!!

Well anyway.. having been talking so much about student motivation. I would like turn the table around this time, staff motivation. One thing which I find which was certainly true is that praises are cheap... especially when your bosses starts singing your praises and patting your back saying how well you have performed but when comes to bonuses and promotion, it tells a different story.

What motivates us as an employee to work?
Putting the need for money for us to survie reasonably aside, is the recognition in monetary the reason behind our motivation? or is the satisfaction that we gain from our job motivates us?

Many will choose the latter... however if it is the latter why is it that we feels down or upset when we do not get our well deserved bonuses? Are we really saying what we feel we want?