Motivational Theories Assignment

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
(Motivational theories)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
Motivation and its theories.....................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Employees are the life blood of business unit. It is the responsibility of management that
to encourage people so that they will perform well in the organization. Motivation is the internal
feeling of individuals that impact on behaviour of person in enterprise. Present study will discuss
various motivational theories that are used by entities at the workplace.
TASK
Motivation and its theories
Article 1: Toward a better understanding of the relationship between transformational
leadership, public service motivation, mission valence, and employee performance
The first article has been prepared by James Gerard Caillier in the year 2014. It describes
impact of leadership on individual performance. It is the major motivator factor that impacts on
performance of employees in the workplace. Organizational behaviour is concerned with
understanding, predicting and influencing behaviour of employees at the workplace. Each firm
aims to retain its skilled people in the organization for longer duration. For that, these entities
always take care of their needs and create positive environment so that people will feel happy
and perform their duties well in the organization. Employee motivation can be defined as
creativity and level of commitment of the firm towards its workers (Kiruja and Mukuru, 2018).
In recent competitive environment, it becomes very difficult for enterprise to sustain in market
for longer duration. For enhancing profitability and gaining competitive advantages, these firms
put pressure on workforce so that they will put their hard efforts in order to accomplish goals of
organization. But too much pressure discourage people at workplace and change their attitude
towards the brand. Tesco and Asda are the successful retail firms which are conducting their
operations across world (Shields and et.al, 2015). All these enterprises always take care of their
employees and create such environment so that people will feel motivated and retain them for
longer duration. The finding of this article revealed that there are positive relationship between
leadership and employees performance. There are various theories and practices that have been
discussed in this article.
There are several motivational theories that help the organization in encouraging people
at workplace and retaining them in the firm for longer duration. Maslow's hierarchy of
motivational theory is considered as one of effective frameworks that assist managers in
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