Motivate Employees in an Organization - Assignment

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ENGLISH ESSAY
How to Motivate Employees in an Organization
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How to Motivate Employees in an Organization
As a branch of social science, human motivation is a vital aspect of an organization.
Motivation simply is the inner driving force that makes an individual to achieve specific goals
and objectives. It is the role of the human resource department to ensure that all the employees
are well motivated in specific workplaces (Mansaray, 2019). There are three forms of
motivation: intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and addiction motivation. Extrinsic
motivation depends on external factors to attain motivation. These factors include awards,
money, recognition or praises. Intrinsic motivation, on the other hand, relies on personal values
to achieve an affirmative reaction. Addiction motivation lastly, encompasses both internal
feelings and external rewards to attain motivation (Sale and Jones, 2018). For an employee to be
effectively motivated there needs to be a blend between both intrinsic and extrinsic rewards to
accomplish a goal or a mission. This paper, therefore, seeks to elaborate on the means through
which an organization can effectively motivate its employees.
The working environment of an employee plays an important role in the employees' need
to meet set goals and targets. For an employee to be more motivated at the workplace, the
employer needs to provide a conducive working environment. As most of these employees spend
most of their time in the offices, their working environment should be one that encourages
working at ease. Such an environment will ease tension and increase productivity. A good
example of making the working environment conducive to work is by encouraging the
employees to share their knowledge and information as well as involving them in the decision-
making process. The managers, in this case, should be open-minded to create freedom within the
employees. Employees should as well be encouraged to own up their mistakes without feeling
any form of humiliation (Anitha, 2014). This creates a free-person out of the employee. Lastly,

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in trying to make the work environment conducive, the employees need to be given achievable
targets that switch them out of their comfort zones. By this, the employees will choose to step up
and prove that indeed they are capable of achieving the targets. A conducive working
environment fosters teamwork, working as a team, in turn, improves on the creativity and
productivity of the human resource of the firm.
Additionally, the management of the firm should recognize its employee’s contribution as
well as team contribution, both privately and publicly. The firm should not just wait for a big
event to recognize the efforts of their employees. Employee recognition should be regularly, as
this stirs up the need for recognition by each employee. For a firm that works in shifts, it will be
in order if the firm recognizes the efforts of the best team (Bradler, Dur, Neckermann, & Non,
2016). This can be done by organizing paid lunch out, trips and excursions. By this, the
employees will feel that their efforts have been noticed and someone is rewarding the good work.
Personal praises from colleagues, managers or clients about an employee should be made known
to them via calls, emails or word of mouth. This as well makes the employee to give his or her
best in the duties performed since they feel that their efforts are not in vain. Recognition as well
should not only be made on huge achievements, the firm should strive to recognize small
achievements like beating the deadline (Hannam & Narayan, 2015). Much as it is an obvious
thing, some employees cannot do it while others can do it. Lastly, to feel as part of the firm, the
managers need to hold special days where they become the servants to the rest of the employees.
This can be simply by holding a luncheon for the firm where the managers will serve the
employees. This is a cool move for a role reversal as it makes the employees feel honored by
their supervisors. The management needs to build the notion that their success is as well the