Radical, Soulful Motivational Psychology and the 21st-century Passionate Organization
Radical, Soulful Motivational Psychology and the 21st-century Passionate Organization

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines the problem of employee motivation as it relates to job performance in a business organization. We begin the examination by presenting the situation from a recognized study released by Deloitte University Press in 2017, titled “If you love them, set them free.” It was published as a business paper addressing the problem of low worker engagement as a motivational issue of worker passion. We address the topic of leader-management motivation from the perspective of an organizational psychology. However, we argue in this essay that it is a problem beyond the meta-theory, principles, and methodology of empirical psychology. We do, however, hold that empirical organizational psychology on the subject of the relationship of leadership-management motivation and employee engagement does offer necessary ideas worthy of application; however, the meta-theoretical assumptions and applications of empirical organizational psychology are insufficient for addressing the issue of leadership-management motivation. We argue that motivation for the 21st-century passionate organization is a matter best treated from the perspective of a radical soulful organizational motivational psychology based on Aristotelian-Thomistic principles.

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