International Economic Environment Defined. The international economic environment can be described as the global factors that are outside of the control of individual organizations but that can affect the way that businesses operate. These factors include unemployment rates, inflation rates, and labor costs.
Extrinsic motivation refers to the performance of an activity in order to attain a desired outcome and it is the opposite of intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation comes from influences outside of the individual.
It is tempting to think of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as two ends of a continuum such that the higher the intrinsic motivation, the lower the extrinsic motivation; however, there is no automatic relation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation (Lepper, Corpus, & Iyengar, 2005).