Motivation Theories in Human Resource Management: A Case Study of Tesco

Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Motivation...................................................................................................................................3
Maslow's hierarchy theory of motivation. ..................................................................................3
Herzberg's two factor theory.......................................................................................................5
Company background.................................................................................................................5
Steps of motivation.....................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journal............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Human resource are those Assets of the organisation who perform, assist, work in order
achieve organisational objective. They are employees, stakeholders and managers that make their
contribution to convert physical input into practical output. Human resource management is an
essential activity of management which drives HR manager to conduct various task and
formulate strategies to manage employees, staffs, recruit and hire qualified individual which
could take the organisation to the success. Human resource manager enable functions of
employees welfare, provide training and development and prepare them for building career
within the organisation. Moreover, a human resource manager is entitled to create organisation
culture with some values, ethics and norms that regulate into overall operations so that work
would be done into well manner (Sumah, and Baatiema, 2019). The case study is about Tesco, a
leading firm of London, United kingdom specialised in selling home, grocery and consumer
products. The assessment will show managers contribution in motivating their employees with
some relevant theory.
Motivation
Motivation is an important part of management activity that guide, initiate and maintain
goals initiative so the employees would not lack with dedication towards work. Motivation
could be provide by effective techniques and understanding human behaviour as what they
expect with the organisation. It enhance employees interest and make them keen towards
achieving goals and set targets. In order to motivate employees effectively, there are relevant
theory that drives human wants and employees into systematic manner (Rockett, and.et.al 2017).
Maslow's hierarchy theory of motivation.
Maslow provides an effective framework of stages that an individual desires and upgrade
with the level of their achievement. This theory provides a need to understand human behaviour
in order to make them influenced about work ans its benefits. The theory gives 5 motivational
stages that is described below:
Physiological needs: at this stage of an individual life, it desires to have basic needs for
basic survival such as food, clothing, place. An individual wants a minimum pay to to fulfil these
desires while working within an organisation (Mendy, and Rahman, 2019). company need to
provide a fixed pay so that worker could settle and survive into inflationary market.