Employee Motivation and Factors Affecting Job Performance

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Factors that motivate employees to work....................................................................................3
Positive and Negative Factors that employees experience as a result of their job roles..............5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
In this report importance of employee motivation and factors through which employees
are motivated will be highlighted. The report will discuss the various factors that arises in the
performance of job roles of employees and their positive and negative impact on the employee
performance. Further the report will also cover the various strategies that an organization can
adapt to nullify these negative effects.
MAIN BODY
Factors that motivate employees to work
Employee motivation is an internal feeling of an employee facilitating employee to put
necessary required efforts towards the accomplishment of organizational goals (Hanaysha and
Majid, 2018).
Abraham Maslow's need hierarchy theory is referred as the best theory in the field of
motivation. Through his theory Maslow states that there are certain physiological needs of a
person, fulfilment of which motivates the actions of the person.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is bifurcated into five parts. It is assumed that people are
motivated by a series of needs that are universal (Ghatak and Singh, 2019). And, a person tends
to shift upward towards the series provided that the lower tiers are fully satisfied.
Physiological needs: These are the basic minimum requirements that are essential for the
survival of an individual. Fresh and clean air and water, balanced diet, shelter, sound sleep,
clothes and reproduction are the basic needs of an individual.
Safety Needs: After the basic requirements are made constant in the life of an individual,
he seeks the need of being secure. Personal and family security in terms of security of
employment, resources, health and property.
Love and belonging: Now that the person is getting basic survival essentials along with
security, the next thing the individual crave for is friendship, sense of connection and intimacy.
Self Esteem: The fourth level of satisfaction that the individual want to have is to have
respect, status, recognition, strength and freedom in society.
Self-actualization:The last level of satisfaction, for the achievement of which makes a
person motivated is the feeling of self-actualization. It is the feeling in oneself of being and
doing the best one can.