0 to make someone less enthusiastic about a job:
1 to make someone feel less interested in and enthusiastic about their work:
Care must be taken to avoid either setting goals which are unrealistically difficult, with potential to demotivate, or goals which are too easy to attain.
One cannot measure the demotivating effect of such decisions.
In the long term, that will mean the lowering, not raising, of standards and the demotivating of many pupils.
The publication of results will cause schools and pupils who are identified as failing in comparison with others to be demotivated and undermined.
Unless radically revised, the proposals for 1996–97 will have a demotivating impact on most authorities.
It is important therefore to motivate those children in the inner city areas who have been demotivated in the past.
This squalid squabble is demotivating people in the company from the top to the bottom.
It can demotivate staff and lead to the loss of good, experienced staff.
