Employee Motivation In An Organization

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Employee Motivation in an organization Motivation: This is the willingness to exert high level of effort, or factors that stimulate desire in people to be continually committed to a job. Motivation is a crucial element in setting and attaining goals; it is either intrinsic (internal) or extrinsic (external). Internal motivation is the driving force from within a person to achieve a certain goal because of personal satisfaction or desire such as curiosity, control, competition or recognition. Extrinsic motivation refers to tendency to perform activities for known external rewards such as praise, fame, money or simple appreciation from others. Motivation only works when a person has the effort, persistence, direction and a certain goal or objective. …show more content…

Needs, Behavior and satisfaction. Starting with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory; which states that people will not achieve a higher need until the basic needs are satisfied, which he arranged in a pyramid from starting from bottom to top are; physiological needs, safety, social needs, esteem and self actualization. Next is Alderfer’s ERG theory in which he classified employee’s needs into physical needs, relatedness needs and growth needs, saying that a higher need can be achieved even if a basic need has not been achieved depending on the level of priority. Also Herzberg’s two-factor theory: states that only two factors affect motivation, which are Hygiene factors and …show more content…

Financial incentives such as money, prizes and discount or non-financial incentives such as gratitude, appreciation letter and praise. Which one do you think is more efficient?
Money can be very tempting and hard to resist, but some employees usually care more about their self-esteem more than their salary, in this care respect and appreciation have more power than bonuses or prizes. Every employee wants to be known by the manager, no matter the post he has. Rather than paying all the employees who contributed which might cost a lot, a simple appreciation letter might do just fine to boost their motivation.
3. How does extra activities like employee trip, sports week and cricket tournament help motivate employees?
This gives employees a chance to have some time off and make new friends in the organization. It also encourages them to have that desire to give the organization something in return.
4. What are the major issues managers faces on motivating employees? It is very hard to understand how different employees are motivated, and how to approach them. Other than that a manager has to cope with an employee’s behavior either his poor performance or lack of ethics and

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