Factors that Motivate Employees and their Positive and Negative Experiences at Work

This report discusses the various factors that motivate employees at work, including Maslow's Hierarchy theory, salary, rewards, and working environment. It also covers the positive and negative experiences employees have as a result of their job roles, such as skill development, bias, conflict, and excessive workload. Strategies to cope with negative factors are also discussed.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Various factors that motivate the employees to work ................................................................1
Explain positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles .......3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
People belong from distinct cultures, religions and background work together at a place is
known as organisation. People perform several of economic activities for the purpose of earning
money to survive in this world. A person have several of neds and demand, so they have to do
the work for the purpose of fulfilling their all necessities. While doing any work, an individual
face several challenges at work place. It is necessary for people to effectively face all those
challenges and improve their performance. For the purpose of facing the specified challenges,
people are required to develop their skills and learning (Al-Dubai, M.M. and et. al., 2019). It has
been also found that the continuous learning is essential for individual to improve the
performance. This repost covers various factors which motivate the employees at work place. In
addition to this, it also deals with the positive and negative factors of employee experience as a
result of their job role.
MAIN BODY
Various factors that motivate the employees to work
Motivation refers to the the some total of all those activities which are performed for the
purpose of providing guidelines and initiating the employees at work place so that they can
perform well and help the management in achieving the organisational goals and objectives. It is
described as a continuous process which influence the people to do work. Various of factors have
been identified which motivate the people to do the work at work place in an effective and
efficient manner.
Maslow's Hierarchy theory: It is also defined as the model or theory of psychology
which motivate the people to do more effective work so that the individuals can fulfil their needs
in a pre decided manner (Fallatah, R.H.M. and Syed 2018). This theory has divided the human
needs in five stages in the shape of a pyramid. This theory plays an important role in motivating
the people to do the work for the purpose of moving up to the next level of motivation. Physiological Needs: It is most lowest stage in the pyramid of Maslow which include the
basic needs of human. Food, cloth and shelter are consider as the basic needs of
individuals. Mostly people work only for the purpose of satisfying their basic need for
livelihood.
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 Safety Needs: Second phase of Malow's need Hierarchy theory is safety needs under
which people work for the purpose of feeling safe. Safety of individual become the most
important need in order to live with their loved ones with happiness. Love and belongings: Human beings are living in a society. Hence, they want to be
socialized which is possible only by developing a relationship with others. At this level,
people work for making good relationship with other people at work place and in
personal life. Esteem needs: It is a stage under which people work for gaining self respect and esteem
(Fan, J. and et. al., 2021). These needs are being classified in two categories which
include esteem for oneself which include dignity, mastery independence and second one
is the desire for reputation or respect from others.
 Self Actualization: It is the top most level of motivation in the pyramid of Maslow under
which the people develop concern with their personal growth and show less concerned
with the opinions of others.
Factors that motivate employees to work Salary: basically people work only for the purpose of earning money to satisfy their own
needs with their families. People get remuneration or pay in the exchange of doing work.
It is not consider as the long term factor of motivation but it provide short term
satisfaction to the people. It is consider as the basic need of people while doing work.
Hence, it can also be said that the people get motivation with the amount which they get
from employer for doing work. It may improve the performance of employees on
temporary basis. Rewards and recognition: If the employer provide several rewards and recognition to the
employees for their extra efforts at the work place. Getting rewards for their performance
motivate the employees to do the work by putting more efforts. Rewards can be provided
in financial or non financial terms (Walumbwa and et. al., 2018). The environment of
demotivation may arise at work place, if the employees will not get rewards or
recognition for their extra efforts which they put towards achieving the organisational
goals and objectives. It is necessary to provide some extra incentives or promotion to the
employees on the basis of their performance as it will highly influence the employees top
work more effectively.
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 Working Environment: In the process of motivating people at work place, working
environment plays an important role. It is necessary to have positive working
environment as it encourage the people to work with more efficiency and effectiveness.
Working environment has been develop with the nature and behaviour of staff members
(Wijewardena, Samaratunge and Härtel 2019). If the nature of senior management is
employee oriented, it will highly influence the people to improve the working
performance at work place.
Explain positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
Employee experience summarize what an individual encounter and observe over the
course of their tenure at an organization. Positive work experience of employees develop feeling
in them as they are important part of organisation and this feeling result in the higher
motivational level in the individuals which also bring improvement in the performance. Some of
positive and negative factors of employee experience as a result of their job roles:
Positive Factors Skill development and growth opportunities: For the purpose of growing the skills and
learnings, employees want to perform new tasks at work place. Several training and
development sessions are being arranged by the management of business organisation
which develop the specified skills in the employees and make more specialist in a
particular field (Lee, J.W., 2019). This act of business management develop a positive
and good relationship with their employees which also result in the improvement of
performance at work place. Modern Performance management: The business organisations are adopting various
modern techniques for the purpose of keeping an eye on the operations being performed
by the employees. Tracking all the activities of employees may leads to the improvement
in the working performance of employees working in the organisation. For the same
purpose, it is necessary for the management to provide accurate feedback on time by
maintaining the transparency in communication.
 Meaningfulness: The business operations performed by the employees are important to
the organisation. It develop the feeling of meaningfulness in the employees which help
them in focusing on the achievement of organisational goals and objectives. Hence, it is
consider as a positive factor of employee experience.
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Negative Factors Bias in the work place: Discrimination at work place effect employees negatively. It
effect the performance of employees which is not as per the standard for achieving the
organisational goals and objectives. It's effect can be seen on the several decisions made
by organisations such as recruitment and selection, promotion, performance
management. Hence, it implies negative work experience of employees. Conflict at work place: Raising of conflicts among the employees or employees and
management at work place is a normal aspect because of dissimilarities in the culture,
profession, qualification and thoughts (Luo, J.G. and et. al., 2019). It directly effect the
employee experience negatively. It has been found that more than 25% of total time, the
management of business organisation is engage in resolving the issues which are being
raised at work place.
 Excessive work load: Extra work load create stress and anxiety which implies effect on
the performance of employees. It is very difficult for employees to handle the work load
as it result in the reduction in the productivity of employees. Excessive work load effect
the physical and mental health of employees.
Strategies to cope with the negative factors employees experience as a result of their job
roles Work with leadership: Application of effective leadership style at work place help in
removing the negative employee experience. As it develop several of strategies at work
place which help the management in accomplishing the mission, vision and objectives of
organisation.
 Opportunities to express opinion: The management of organisation can bring employee
oriented culture at work place which implies all the strategies develop for the benefit of
employees (Nabirye, G., 2019). The management also provide the opportunities for
expressing their views while taking any decision.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that that people work in an organisation only
for the purpose of satisfying the needs and demands of themselves. Maslow's Hierarchy Theory
of motivation establish several stages of motivation which motivate the people to do work.
Several of factors of motivation have been analysed at work place which state the reason of
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working of people. The employee experience have both positive and negative factors which are
explained in the above report. The working performance of employees can be improved by
motivating them to work and providing some extra incentives or promotion. Some of
motivational activities also result in the development of personal skills and learning of
employees.
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