Based from the title is shown that if managers want to get the best performance from their staff, they need to reward their staff intrinsically. From the research that has been taken part in this topic, intrinsic rewards are one of the methods that can be used to motivate your staff means that the staffs are motivated by rewards that are largely intangible. This means if we are the staff, we place more value on outcomes that are sourced from within ourselves, rather than from external factors. It is also can be linked to our feelings. Such as, feeling satisfied and capable, enjoying a sense of challenge, re-enforcing self-esteem, satisfaction at accomplishments, general enjoyment in our work, feeling appreciated, satisfaction at realizing our potential and taking pleasure at being treated with care and consideration (Anon, 2007). On the other side, other methods are extrinsic reward which it refers to motivation by external or tangible rewards. We are motivated to perform by things or factors which come from other people or organizations. Typically these include increasing of salary and bonuses, fringe benefits, promotion and its trappings, and condition of work (Anon, 2007).
McShane & Glinow (2009), Maslow’s hierarchy is closely related with extrinsic and intrinsic rewards and the extrinsic rewards are related to physiological needs and safety needs while intrinsic reward are linked with needs of love and belonging and the needs of self-esteem as cited in (Anon, 2012). Furthermore, the concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are cardinal concepts in social and humanistic psychology, and represent distinctive mental processes that interact in specific ways that can in turn be observed through observation of individuals in work, school, and other institutionalized settings (A. J. Marr, 2001). In occupational side, a study of over 2,000 employees by the Gallup Organisation, for