Understanding Why People Work: Factors Affecting Motivation and Strategies to Cope with Negative Factors

This report discusses the meaning of motivation and the various factors that motivate employees to work, including salary, promotion, and work environment. It also covers positive and negative factors that affect employees and strategies to cope with negative factors, such as using polite language and rewarding employees. The subject is World of Work, and the course code is BMP3004 for BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
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World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Contents

Introduction 1
What does Motivation Mean? 1
The various factors which motivate employees to work
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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
Motivation in work inspire the employees to act in ways that help in overcome from
obstacles, achieve objectives and happiness etc. motivation on works means of
improving the individual meaning of life and fulfill the basic need of life such as house,
food, health care and cloths. The report will cover the discussion about motivation mean
along with various ways to motivate the employees to perform the job. In addition to this,
analyses the positive and negative factors that affect the employees as well as tool and
strategies that help to manage the negative experience of employees.
What does Motivation Mean?
The motivation is a process that guide the employees to achieve different goals
of personal and company as well. The motivation involves emotional, cognitive force and
social etc. Motivation is refers to self push to accomplish the desire and satisfy the
willingness. The strong motivated employee will soaring the output of employees but
negatived motivated employee will decline its performance. (Bushi, 2021).With the help
of motivation, The company encourage to employees to give their best performance and
help to accomplish the company's goals
Maslow's hierarchy theory refers to define human motivation that based on
different stage of desires. The Maslow believed that individual accomplished the one
level and begin continue with further level. The motivation begin with bottom most level is
physiological needs after-that second level of motivation is safety and securities.
Moreover, the third level of motivation is belonging needs and love in which interaction
with other, the desire to give and get loves from other. The next fourth level of motivation
is esteem needs in which individual satisfy the status, feel respected and gain
recognition, The final and fifth level of motivation is self-actualization needs in which
person have to realize the full potential such as seeking happiness, pursuing life dreams
and obtaining skill.
Intrinsic Motivation refers to individual's behavior gets motivation from inner
inclination to attain objectives in which thought of satisfaction and achievement. (Evans
and Mason,2018)Extrinsic motivation determines kind of motivation in which
individual motivate from external factor such as increment, grades and appreciation etc.
that push to perform something
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The various factors which motivate employees to work
Salary: Salary play a crucial in motivation for employees as it help to employees to
perform in productive manner so that organization meet their objectives, For example
TESCO, The TESCO hires professional employees in globally with offering high salary
that helps to acquiring quality candidates..
Promotion: Promotion refers to increase salary and rewards that creating a ways to
meet organization's goals. The main reasons of promotion, people want to make money,
make social bond and social identify. For example TESCO, (Lazar, 2019)The respective
company use promotion strategy that help to increase the retaining employees and
reduce the employee's resignation..
Work Environment: The good environment of organization encourage employees to
do work hard and freely communicate with senior and perform the tasks with full-
dedication For example TESCO,the given company provide healthy environment to
fresher employees such as focusing on development and learning and celebration of
employee's birthday that help to increase the self-value and esteem in employees.
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles
The employees experience of positive factor in her or his journey in particular
organization. The positive factor involves culture, workplace and technology that are
important elements for employees.(Hsie and et.al., 2018) Engaged employees are high
productive for organization as they more focus on workplace and improve the retention
level. The good management important for organization as the employees feels more
secure and safe in difficult times in workplace. Healthy management lead to different
mindset of employees turn into team with help of positive factors as It main focus on
teams goal. The employees increase the quality work in specific hours if organization
maintain the work life balance. The positive salary structure help to organization to allure
the best candidates for joining the organization. Organization main aim to provide
learning and development program to existing employees so that they do their best in
workplace. The honest communicate with between senior and subordinate in
organization that help to maintaining the harmony in staffs. The individual gives full
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potential if company allows rewards and incentives to their employees . The company
create endorphins in workplace as sometime employees get frustrated form workplace.
The healthy management emphasis on family and health the organization offers health
insurance for employee and his family, prohibited smoking in working area, provide
exercise equipment. The positive management allows appreciation to employees
and eliminate the sexual harassment, inequality and bullying in work place. For example
TESCO, The respective organization provide advanced technology and tool to their
staffs that help to easily perform the difficulty task in job roles.(Michailidis, Kapravelos
and Tsiatsos, 2022) The respective company encourage employees to take different
breaks such as annual leave, sick leave and lunchtime etc. that help to eliminate
employee's stress.
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles
The negative factor affect the employee's future and organization's goals as
well. The poor management destroy the attitudes, performance and morale of the
employee in work place.
Lack of communication: The employees face difficulty in dealing with taking
decision in which involve risk factor due to poor communication. Sometime,
employees misinterpret the information and irregular of feedback that it has lead to
failure in work.
Ineffective leaders: The company's growth directly depend on effective
leader that provide a provide direction to employees to meet the organization's goal
so that ineffective leaders lead to organization not meet the its goals.
Poor policies: The company face issue if they have not maintain healthy
polices for employees as they serve resignation and not maintain the discipline or
harmony in workplace so that company not accomplish the organization's objectives
Excess work pressure: The high work pressure trend to make employees
worst experience in job role as employees loss interest in work it has lead to
increase the resignation and reduce the retention level of staff. The employees get
depressed or irritate in workplace if company increase the intense work load.
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Poor discipline: The poor discipline in organization lead to non adherence
the safety regulations by the employees. (Setiawan, 2021August) The employees
provide fake medical , expense claims and travels bills to company. They easily
refuse and deny for job's task and training session that make huddle for organization
to fulfill the organizational goal.
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees
experience as a result of their job roles
Use polite language: The manager use polite language in their workplace
that improve the healthy communication between seniors and subordinate.
(Zakharov, 2018) Good language help to cope with negative factor that affect staff's
emotion and physical. The senior and subordinate have to use soft language so that
It improve the positive environment in office
Organize the leadership: The effective leader motivate the employees to
perform in effective manner and explain the path to achieve the personal goals with
help of organization as it help to cope with negative factor. The good leader delegate
the power and responsibility to subordinates according to the capabilities.
Motivate the employees: The motivation tool help to reduce the negative
environment In organization as it increases the level of energy, creativity and
commitment in employees. The motivated employees gives 100% in their tasks and
accomplish the personal and company's goal.
Moral value: The manger increase the moral value such as respect, peace,
honesty and self respect etc. among employees as it help to remove the negative
environment in the organization. The Morale help to employees to perform the task
in outstanding ways to meet the organizational goal.
Reward and incentives: The manger use this tool that help to eliminate the
negative impact in organization as it boost the motivation, teamwork and morale
value among employees. (Warburton and et. al., 2021) The reward and incentives
push the employee to do work to meet the organizational requirements.
Appreciation: The manager should appreciate to employee for effective
performance that increase the self value in employee as they are valuable part of the
organization and remove the negative impact in the organization.
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Conclusion
The above stated report concludes that motivation is very important for an
organization development and growth as well. It has been concluded that The
motivation encourage the employee to perform in well manner. In addition to this, the
motivation help the organization to eliminate the negative impact of organization so
that organization maintain the peace, increase the retention rate and easily achieve
the organizational objectives and personal objectives as well.
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