Motivating to Be Prosocial: How Complementary Motivators Reduce the Ambiguity of Informal Rewards

Different motivators have been shown to enhance autonomous motivation for prosocial organizational behaviors. However, little is known about how these motivators interact. Our analysis of 1,523 employees in five knowledge-intensive firms show that employees who are exposed to informal rewards for knowledge sharing experience higher levels of autonomous motivation to share when they are also simultaneously exposed to job autonomy and a...