Understanding why people work

BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
Contents
Introduction 1
What does Motivation Mean? 1
The various factors which motivate employees to work
p
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles p

The negative factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles p
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees
experience as a result of their job roles p
Conclusion p
References p

Introduction
This report reflects that why people work and what are the factors that
motivate the employees in an organisation in order to attain efficiencies at work.
Motivation is an important tool that stimulates the workforce of an organisation into
productivity at work. Right motivation will not only contribute to stimulate employee
performance but also maintain positive working environment and good internal
management of the organisation, which is crucial for business sustainability. This
report defines motivation and what are different factors that motivates the
employees, the positive and negative factors of work and strategies to cope up with
the negative factors at work (Gerhart and Fang, 2015).
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation in simple language is defined stimulating the actions of an
individuals in order to attain determined objectives. There are two different types of
motivation such intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Employee motivation is an
important tool which encourages employee towards productivity and efficiencies in
the workplace (Hennessey and et.al., 2015). In accordance to Maslow’s Hierarchy
theory which defines that an individual is driven by needs which are in hierarchical
structure, as soon as one need in accomplished the individual moves to another
needs on the hierarchical need structure. Similarly, in the workplace, an employer
must analyse the needs of different individual in order to identify desired needs of
different employees which will helps to develop effective motivational tool for each
employee. Maslow’s Hierarchy theory states the intrinsic needs of an individual
which motivates and wishes to fulfill basic needs first which involves physiological
needs after that his/she needs satisfied he starts moving to the other needs in the
hierarchy which involves safety, social, esteem, self actualisation needs. Whereas,
the extrinsic needs of an individual involve recognition, rewards which motivates an
individual by external factors. Human relation management theory states that an
employee need to be rendered external motivational tools in the workplace in order
to accomplish employee satisfaction and productivity in the workplace.
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