Knowledge Employee Motivation

Motivation , which researches how to mobilize employees enthusiasm , is a very important part in corporate management. With the development of western management science, it has accumulated a series of varieties of motivation theories. This article firstly analyzes the features of the Knowledge Economy and knowledge employees and then introduces the new development of management theory . Meanwhile it makes a introduction on the traditional motivation theories and then analyzes them. With the increase of the quantity of knowledge employees and the weight they occupy, the end of this article puts forward a modern motivation theroy and method in the light of knowledge employees. The remarkable characteristic of the knowledge economy era is that knowledge has become the main capital in the economy development , the corporate productions and the corporate operations. But who really grasp the knowledge are the employees in the corporations .This kind of knowledge employees are totally different from the common employees before. They have a lot of new features, for instance, they are their own master ;they work with great creativity; the course of their work is difficult to supervise and control ;their working results are also difficult to measure; they have strong attainment motivations etc. Therefore, the motivation for the knowledge employees should emphasize particularly on their self-development and put it in the first place. The corporations should let their employees become the main body of the motivation and take care of their growth and development and let them accomplish their work in that atmosphere. This article puts forward an available motivation method in the light of knowledge employees which plays a positive role to improve corporate management.