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Assignment on Organizational Psychology

   

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Running head: ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

1ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYWhile working at a firm in my internship years, I came across a large number of positiveand negative aspects which helped me to enrich my experience. These experiences would helpme in my future endeavors and I will be able to take proper decisions about how to motivatemyself as well as my fellow colleagues for better productivity. Motivation is one main drivingfactor that infuses zeal and enthusiasm in every working professional to not only meetorganizational goals and objectives but also to develop oneself for better career progression andto be an expert professional (Olafsen et al., 2015). While working in the organization, there weremany factors which motivated me to work more efficiently and be more dedicating to thecompany. At the same time, on many instances, I also developed feeling where I completelylacked motivation and felt that I am not eligible to carry out the assigned responsibilities.Researchers over the years have stated many theories which describe the factors which eithermotivate or de-motivate us. The assignment will highlight those theories in describing therationale of my feelings of motivation and de-motivation and will thereby help me to preparemyself for overcoming any barriers that come my way in the future.I joined the association as a member of the team which was mainly based oncommunicating globally with another overseas branch of the multinational organization and fixmeetings, collect information and data from them and thereby help in calculating the overallproductivity of the MNC. As I was new to the organization, I was quite nervous. Since, I had avery friendly manager, my work became much easier. He trusted me on my ability andcontinuously encouraged me to do better. He provided me many motivational quotes which Ipasted in my cubicle which gave strength to me every time I feel down or tired. He never used tocriticize me but in turn motivated me if I failed, telling me that failures are pillars of success. Ibecame so motivated by him, that I often did extra hours at work along with overtime to help

2ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYhim meet the goals. However, the salaries that were paid to me did not accompany the incentivesfor my extra hours at work. Rather they used to deduct salary even due to minor excuses forwhich I was getting agitated. The company policies were strict and did not allow me any sickleaves which affected my salary. They deducted salary on my minor issues even if I was oneminute late to enter office. This stringency was making me highly demotivated as they weretotally overseeing the effort which I was giving at work. There was a strict formal environmentwhere the organization did not allow talking to the fellow colleague on anything informal. As aresult of lack of informal communication within colleagues, none were able to connect with eachother and develop strong pressures. As a result the work burden became stressful. However, theritual to have standing ovation for the best employee with highest productivity helped us tobecome motivated and try our best. One another factor of de-motivation was the long workinghours and the short number of breaks. The breaks were really small and could not help theindividual to refresh his mind. Overall several factors for motivation and de-motivation prevailedin the workplace and it was necessary for the organization to develop the organizational culturefor motivating employees.A number of theories will now be analyzed sequentially in order to shed more light on the abovementioned factors and how they would enhance of reduce productivity at workplace –Hertzberg’s Two-Factor Theory:The first motivational theory is called the Hertzberg’s Two Factor Theory. The firstfactor is the set of motivational factors which include those factors that result in developingsatisfaction and also help the employees to work harder. These mainly include enjoying thework, feeling recognized and also career progression (Alshmemri et al., 2017). Here I noticed

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