'the Best Way to Increase Work Motivation for an Organization Is Through Financial Reward’. Discuss

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'The best way to increase work motivation for an organization is through financial reward’. Discuss.

In view of setting-up organizations in our society, the aim of employers has always been driven towards achieving the set goals. The crucial factor of stimulating an employee’s interest and commitment to the occupation itself is motivation. According to Pinder (1998), work motivation is defined as a set of energetic forces that originally comes from both within as well as beyond an individual’s being, to initiate work-related behavior and to determine its form, direction, intensity and duration. Research evidences have linked motivation to job performance and organizational commitment (Colquitt, 2011). Employees are motivated for multiple reasons; some want to pursuit their goals while others are ambitious to getting richer and to be more powerful. To expand, every business needs to persevere in an aim to keep its employees motivated by some stimulus. It seems that the best way to increase work motivation is through financial reward. However, some theorists dispute

References: Bandura, A. (1997b). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: Freeman. Buchanan, D. A., & Huczynski, A. A. (2010). Organizational behaviour (7th ed.). Colquitt, J. A., LePine, J. A., & Wesson, M. J. (2011). Organizational behavior: improving performance and commitment in the workplace (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin. ----------------------- [1] Please see in Appendix