Motivating Employees

Motivating Employees Motivation is defined as the reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. Motivation is one of the most important factors in employee performance and in keeping a business afloat. Workers with hourly wages are motivated to work more hours because working more hours means more money in their pocket. Motivation is an abstract concept, one can not see motivation in another person, only the results of it. Why is motivation important? Well there would be no reason to perform any task ever if motivation was non-existent. Without motivation, progressing mankind would be for no purpose and we would all still be living on caves and have huge beards. If Columbus wasn 't motivated to find a faster route to the west indies, the whole course of history would be different and north America may have never been colonized. There are two types of motivation, extrinsic motivation is the motivation that comes from receiving any physical reward such as money. It can also be the benefits a company provides to its employees to work harder such as free lunch, an employee only gym, etc. Take for example, Google. Google has become one of the most successful modern business due in part to the benefits they provide to their employees. Google employees receive free food during lunch, travel insurance, an employee gym, tuition towards classes that increase your skills needed for your job and even free legal advice/services. These are the extrinsic motivators that keep employees so driven to do a good job at Google. The other type of motivation is call intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic rewards are the way one feels when they have completed a task well and become proud of what they have done. For example, when a car salesman makes a sale, he makes commission from that sale which is an extrinsic reward, but after he makes the sale he will feel good that he did a good job and feel a sense of satisfaction from doing a job well done, which is the intrinsic

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