MOTIVATION Concept of Motivation: Motivation is a psychological concept which acts as a force that propels a person to act or not to act in a certain way. Robert D. Irwin defines motivation as “Motivation means a process of stimulating people to action to accomplish a desired goal”. A manager needs to coordinate several factors of production and these factors can be classified into non human and human factors. The efficiency of non human factors such as material‚ machine‚ etc depends on the technology
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Buchanan defines motivation. ‘Motivation is a decision-making process‚ through which the individual chooses the desired outcomes and sets in motion the behaviour appropriate to them’ Buchanan‚ D. & Huczynski‚ A. (2004) Organizational Behaviour An Introductory Text‚ 5th Ed Motivation is a desire to achieve a goal‚ combined with the energy to work towards that goal. Employees who are motivated have a desire to complete the requirements of the task at hand. Motivation is a key element in
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Motivation Motivation is a person’s internal disposition to be concerned with and approach positive incentives and avoid negative incentives. To further this‚ an incentive is the anticipated reward or aversive event available in the environment. While motivation can often be used as a tool to help predict behavior‚ it varies greatly among individuals and must often be combined with ability and environmental factors to actually influence behavior and performance. Because of motivation’s role in influencing
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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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study Many researchers and authors have defined the concept of motivation. It has been defined as: * The psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction (Kreitner‚ 1995) * A predisposition to behave in a purposive manner to achieve specific‚ unmet needs (Buford‚ Bedeian‚ & Lindner‚ 1995) * An internal drive to satisfy an unsatisfied need (Higgins‚ 1994) * The will to achieve (Bedeian‚ 1993). Motivation is defined as the inner force that drives individuals to accomplish
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Motivation Motivation Definition Motivation can be defined as the process that accounts for an individual’s intensity‚ direction‚ and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.11 Intensity is concerned with how hard a person tries. The effort has to be channelled in a direction that benefits the organization. Persistence is a measure of how long people can maintain their effort. There are two major categories of motivation theories (1) Content theories and (2) Process theories. Content
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Motivation A motive is a reason for doing something. Motivation is concerned with the strength and direction of behavior and the factors that influence people to behave in certain ways. The term ‘motivation’ can refer variously to the goals individuals have‚ the ways in which individuals chose their goals and the ways in which others try to change their behavior. Motivating other people is about getting them to move in the direction you want them to go in order to achieve a result. Motivating
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Using Rewards to motivate employees MOTIVATION Some individuals are driven to succeed. A students who struggles to read a textbook for more than 20 minutes may devour Two States in a day. This document tries to put perspective into the reasons behind these varying degrees of motivation. Remember than the levels of motivation varies both between individuals and within individuals at different times. There are three key elements that define motivation‚ namely‚ Intensity‚ Direction and Persistence
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Motivation Every Individual has specific goal to achieve. These goals are only achievable if the individual is enthusiastic about the goal. One of the most key factors that lead one to their goals is the drive. This drive is also known as Motivation‚ a process that starts with a physiological or psychological need to do an aimed task or it can be said as the reason for doing something. Though motivation is essential in our life it cannot be purchased like we purchase other necessities. But luckily
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A happy or satisfied worker can have many reasons; he/she can have a high salary‚ good working hours‚ bonus holidays‚ or an excellent position in the company. Every individual is satisfied differently. But do happy workers stay over-time or perform better than unhappy workers? According to the book‚ Organizational Behavior‚ organizations with more satisfied employees tend to be more effective than organizations with fewer satisfied employees. Happy workers are now related to organizational
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