Movie Moneyball review and relationship with motivation theories
II. Motivation
The movie “Moneyball” based on true story of the General Manager of the Oakland A’s, Billy Beane who decided to challenge the conventional wisdom in the professional baseball which selection and purchasing of players should rely on their performance rather than public perception of a player. Together with a Yale graduate, Beane looked at data on actual performance, not public opinion which real possibilities emerged for players that had been overlooked and underpaid. Beane exchanged some of his highly paid players with undervalued new ones, and began to win the record for the most successive wins in baseball. All the reason why he was willing to rethink the system of rewards, based not on tradition, but on math and hidden performance of the players which is basically relied on motivation of the undervalued players.
Moneyball is a movie about a great leader, who could organize a comparably low cost team while motivating the players who are undervalued by public and encourage them by giving freedom and a chance to compete against big rivals. In the movie, there are excellent examples of motivating a team towards the success. What we can learn from the film is players need to call for opportunity to growth, display their achievement and be recognized by staff in the company and public as depicted in Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory as motivation factors. One of the most impressive lessons by Billy Beane is that he hit straight to a distinct human motive which can be distinguished from other needs that called need for achievement. Every low valued player eagers for significant accomplishment, mastering of skills, control, or high standards. Beane created such environment to get opportunity of beating against giant competitors and guided average profile team to get record success result in twenty consecutive games. In the motivational point of view, he proved that need for achievement is more than just money rewards as also described in McClelland's
The movie “Moneyball” based on true story of the General Manager of the Oakland A’s, Billy Beane who decided to challenge the conventional wisdom in the professional baseball which selection and purchasing of players should rely on their performance rather than public perception of a player. Together with a Yale graduate, Beane looked at data on actual performance, not public opinion which real possibilities emerged for players that had been overlooked and underpaid. Beane exchanged some of his highly paid players with undervalued new ones, and began to win the record for the most successive wins in baseball. All the reason why he was willing to rethink the system of rewards, based not on tradition, but on math and hidden performance of the players which is basically relied on motivation of the undervalued players.
Moneyball is a movie about a great leader, who could organize a comparably low cost team while motivating the players who are undervalued by public and encourage them by giving freedom and a chance to compete against big rivals. In the movie, there are excellent examples of motivating a team towards the success. What we can learn from the film is players need to call for opportunity to growth, display their achievement and be recognized by staff in the company and public as depicted in Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory as motivation factors. One of the most impressive lessons by Billy Beane is that he hit straight to a distinct human motive which can be distinguished from other needs that called need for achievement. Every low valued player eagers for significant accomplishment, mastering of skills, control, or high standards. Beane created such environment to get opportunity of beating against giant competitors and guided average profile team to get record success result in twenty consecutive games. In the motivational point of view, he proved that need for achievement is more than just money rewards as also described in McClelland's