European Journal of Business and Management ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 3‚ No.9‚ 2011 www.iiste.org Application of Frederick Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory in assessing and understanding employee motivation at work: a Ghanaian Perspective Kwasi Dartey-Baah (Corresponding Author) Department of Organisation & Human Resource Management‚ University of Ghana Business School P.O. Box LG78‚ Legon‚ Accra-Ghana‚ West Africa Telephone: 00233209621292 Email: kdartey-baah@ug.edu.gh
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for which motivation is a key factor. A motivated workforce results in a job being done excellently which can therefore yield higher profits for the company. This illustrates why motivation is considered to be highly important and most companies are trying to focus on how to get their employees motivated. In addition‚ motivation is also important because it has a strong positive effect on job performance which increases self efficacy and therefore leads to a job well done. Motivation can be achieved
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|BASIC MOTIVATION CONCEPTS | LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ students should be able to: 1. Outline the motivation process. 2. Describe Maslow’s need hierarchy. 3. Contrast Theory X and Theory Y. 4. Differentiate motivators from hygiene factors. 5. List the characteristics that high achievers prefer in a job. 6. Summarize the types of goals that
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Assignment 6 Motivation is known as the powerful force that causes the change from desire to willpower in life. Hunger is one example of motivation which creates the desire to eat. Motivation can also be defined as the procedure that starts guides and continues goal oriented actions. Motivation is generally used to explain the reason for a person’s actions. Another example of motivation is when a student is really motivated to get into medical school‚ so he/she studies every night for it. There
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Inducing Intrinsic Motivation to Explore the Enterprise System: The Supremacy of Organizational Levers Weiling Ke‚ Chuan-Hoo Tan‚ Choon-Ling Sia‚ and Kwok-Kee Wei Weiling Ke is an associate professor of operations and information systems in the School of Business at Clarkson University. She holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Her research areas are enterprise systems‚ open source software‚ and electronic commerce. Her research has been published in the Journal of Operations Management
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Motivation Introduction This essay is about defining Motivation and how it affects employees. Also an explanation of the main the types are to be given. A research on popular Theorist was done to support the definition and types. The researcher recognized what impact motivation has on the workplace and seek to discuss the importance. Theory Motivation is a psychological feature that arouses an individual to act towards a desired goal and elicits controls and sustains certain goal directed
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Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Motivation in Islam among IIUM Employees Introduction Work motivation is important to encourage a worker to improve productivity and achieve organizational goals. In Islamic perspective‚ motivation is a form of drive that can influence humans to performance act. In work place‚ employers are faced with the task which is motivating employees and creating high job satisfaction among their staff. Program and policy can develop job satisfaction and motivate
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Summary 12.1 Motivating for Performance Motivation is defined as the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal–directed behavior. In a simple model of motivation‚ people have certain needs that motivate them to perform specific behaviors for which they receive rewards that feed back and satisfy the original need. Rewards are of two types: (1) An extrinsic reward is the payoff‚ such as money‚ a person receives from others for performing a particular task. (2) An intrinsic reward is
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An understanding of the psychological theories of motivation allows one to critically analyse a total rewards approach. Motivation is seen as an important notion in psychology. Psychologically people have their own interior motivations‚ such as love‚ happiness and self-worth and they are also motivated by things outside themselves that for some reasons may cause them to take action. It is the process by which we behave the way we do and direct and make us persevere in our efforts to accomplish
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the text book‚ motivation refers to a psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction. Managers attempt to motivate individuals to pursue organizational objectives willingly and persistently and be loyal to the organization. According BusinessDictionary.com motivation is Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job‚ role or subject‚ or to make an effort to attain a goal. Motivation results from the
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