The Magic of Motivation in Business Organizations

Research Paper (undergraduate) , 2018 , 15 Pages , Grade: 1

Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance

Motivation refers to the encouragement given to employees in order to improve their performance or accomplish specified objectives. Motivation can also be defined the power that gives the route to behavior, strengthen or trigger the tendency to work hard (Manzoor, 2012). According to Manzoor (2012), motivation refers to forces within an individual that can affect his/her intensity, persistence of voluntary behavior and intensity. Direction refers to the path while the intensity is the amount of effort allocated towards achieving a certain goal. Motivation is also an internal drive exerted to satisfy an unsatisfied need.

Lack of motivation is manifested by low productivity, low morale, and high incidences of absenteeism, a high number of accidents, tiredness and increasing number of defective products. Based on the above definitions, employees must be satisfactorily energetic with cut objectives. Effective motivation must stimulate both the psychological and physiological want for certain objectives. Motivation must be able to support goal-oriented behaviors. Various theories have been developed to explain motivation in an organization. For instance, the natural versus model tries to explain whether human cognition is related to natural forces such as needs, desires, drives or any kind of rationality.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Employee Motivation

Benefits of Motivation

Types of Motivation

Relationship between Rewards, Motivation, Performance and Employee Turnover

Theories of motivation
Instrumentalist Theories
Content Theories
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs
Cognitive Theories
Goal Theory
Vroom’s Expectancy Theory

Relationship between Motivation and Equity

Relationship between Motivation and Organizational Justice

Conclusion

References

• Grade: 1
• Author: Caroline Mutuku (Author)
• Publication Year: 2018
• Pages: 15
• Catalog Number: V429854
• ISBN (eBook): 9783668733114
• ISBN (Book): 9783668733121
• Language: English
• Tags: magic, motivation, business, organizations