| Session Name: | Production Essentials Summit: Intrinsically Motivated Teams: The Manager's Toolbox |
| Speaker(s): | Alexandre Moufarek |
| Company Name(s): | DeepMind |
| Track / Format: | Production Essentials Summit |
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| Overview: | Managers are involved in various tasks every day - planning, hiring, team organization, communication, giving feedback, performance evaluation etc. - but how can we tell what will have a positive or a negative impact on our team's motivation? Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2000) can help with that. SDT is a macro theory of human motivation that emerged from the research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and identifies three universal psychological needs that, if satisfied, enable optimal function and growth: competence, autonomy and relatedness. In this talk, Alexandre Moufarek introduces SDT and gives practical examples taken from a manager's day to day tasks and discusses what can facilitate or undermine a team's motivation (supported by research findings). Happy game developers make happy gamers is not just a saying. It's science. |
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