{
  "id": 18426789,
  "title": "Lead: “Motivation can be destroyed amazingly effectively”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/fuhrung-motivation-lasst-sich-erstaunlich-effektiv-zerstoren",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-06T03:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/karriere/fuehrung-motivation-laesst-sich-erstaunlich-effektiv-zerstoeren/100260478.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "A new book by organisational researcher Hans Rusinek, \"Reclaim Work\", explores why many Germans are frustrated with their jobs. According to Rusinek, around half of Germans report that their profession is the main source of frustration in their lives. He argues that leaders must create a work environment that gives people hope, and that individuals can also take steps to boost their motivation. Rusinek suggests that societal and economic pressures, such as the high taxation of work income compared to capital income, can contribute to demotivation.",
  "summary": "Many bosses discourage their employees with certain types of behaviour. Which ones those are and how we can maintain our own enjoyment of our jobs is known to organisational researcher Hans Rusinek.",
  "key_points": [
    "Hoffnungskiller, or motivation killers, systematically discourage people from being motivated.",
    "Leaders can be a motivation killer by using power to make people proactive or intimidate them."
  ],
  "editors_take": "Prioritizing performative visibility and rigid control over meaningful purpose shifts the burden of productivity from individual effort to the systemic failure of leadership and workplace culture.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}