Understanding Why People Work: Factors that Motivate and Affect Employees' Performance

This report discusses the different factors that motivate employees to work and the negative and positive factors that affect their job roles. It also highlights the importance of understanding workplace values and the impact of leadership, career advancement, work environment, recognition, and clarity on employee motivation.

Understanding why
People Work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Various Factors which motivate the employees to work .......................................................1
Negative and Positive factors which employees experience as a outcome of their job roles 3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Working plays a really important role in the life of individuals and also offers more
control over the life of individuals. When a person works, it helps in getting more skills, learning
new things and also making friends with individuals whom you met in a job life. For people, it is
important to be a part of communities and society. The present report basically focuses on the
discussion regarding the employee's attitude towards work and also the different factors which
can motivate the employees and also the negative and positive factors that are experienced by
employees as a result of their job roles.
MAIN BODY
Various Factors which motivate the employees to work
Understanding Workplace values: The workplace values are generally the guiding principles
which need to be carefully known for the objective to do at the workplace. The individuals uses
different principles in order to analyse what is right and what is wrong in order to carry out
further decisions(Schroeder, 2021).
Few of the examples of understanding the values at work includes the following:
 Paying emphasis on each and every detail.
 Being accountable
 Making a difference
 Meeting the set deadlines
 Being honest towards the company Offering Best quality work
The workplace values of the company are basically the ones which motivate the individuals to
work as they adopt the company's culture. For individuals working at a organization, it is very
important to have deep understanding about the core values of the company.
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Factors which motivate employees at work
In order to have a deep understanding about the concept of why people work, it is very
crucial to have a deep understanding about what stimulates them to work. In reference to various
companies, there are different motivational books used as a tool for the purpose to boost the
employees performance. For a leader, it is very important to establish a relationship with the
staff as it will lead to increase in overall output for both the organization and employees (Huang,
and Chang, 2020).
Below are few of the factors which could contribute in motivating the employees at the
workplace:
Development of Trustworthy Leadership: In organizations, when the company develops a health
relationship with the employee, they are more likely to get motivated and can show more interest
in the work. Therefore, after analysing the requirements of John, it is very crucial to develop a
better relationship with the company's employees in order to actually motivate them (Papouli,
2019).
Advancement of Career: Another important factor basically comprises of career advancement.
With the help of advancement, employees will be more motivated. It generally involves having a
better understanding regarding the opportunities involved. For a leader, it is very important to
sustain level of motivation from the employees so the employees could avail more opportunities
for advancement of career.
Work Environment: Surroundings of the company could allow in boosting motivation to the
employees. The more individuals relax at workplace, the more it results in increasing their
efficiency at the workplace. Also it results in creating a work life balance which is considered as
another significant factor which can motivate the employees. Through work life balance, it could
support the employees in creation of work balance among the personnel life and working life as
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it offers employees, some more flexibility and extra autonomy and also helps in developing a
healthy working environment.
Recognizing good work: As per various researchers, the individuals get motivated when they are
recognized by the managers. In organizations, the employee put up a lot of effort in completing a
project and therefore, they need a certain recognition in the company (Tang, 2021).
Providing Clarity: For the objective to understand the objectives and goals of the company, it is
very important to motivate the employees. It is essential to offer transparency with the aim to
motivate the employees. It is highly important to have a concise and clear mission which could
help in boosting up the employees motivation level.
Sharing Positive Outcomes: For managers and leaders, it is very important to offer them a sense
of security through boosting the level of motivation and creating a sense of security. Such kind of
process and tools could be used for the purpose to increase the level of motivation for the
employees.
Negative and Positive factors which employees experience as a outcome of their job roles
In case of individuals, the influence of job over the individuals could be either negative or
positive.
As per the survey, there are Different factors which could have a positive influence over the
individuals at work:
 Personal Resources basically comprises of the self respect or self confidence, all these
factors can actually correlate in positive manner with the health and well being outcome,
according to the research carried out, the high confidence could result in threatening the
employees thus having a low degree of impact as the individuals will make a individual
to achieve something which is tough (Orgambidez and Benitez, 2021).
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 In reference to transformational leaders, such type of managers helps in expressing vision
for the company which results in creating a positive influence on the employees working
capability and overall well being (Wolff, 2018).
 In the workplace, the perception of support could actually allow in boosting employee's
working efficiency and also contributing towards performance of employees.
 Self respect and self confidence, such type of personal resources could actually correlate
positively with health and well being as per the various research.
 The trust factor and Team Spirit could support in boosting up the employees motivation
level and could result in positive influence over the employee's behaviour. With the
support of mutual dependencies, it helps in boosting up people's working efficiency
which could be very helpful for the purpose to carry out future objectives.
All the above factors could result in creating a positive impact over the employees
performance as such kind of factors are a part of the job which also results in communicational
skills and employees working efficiency within the company which could offers them different
advantages in order to achieve a certain objective which could lead to positive influence the
employees behaviour (Leonardi and Staley, 2018).
There are few factors which could result in creating a negative influence over the employees
performance and could result in affecting the productivity:
 Work and stress performance could impact the motivation level and performance of
employees. There are various factors which could lead to increase in the work stress level
which comprises of heavy workload, lack of job security and conflicting working roles,
all of these are considered to be the common factor which decrease the productivity of
employees and can lead to stress.
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 In case of engagement of Employees, it could result in having both negative and positive
influence over the employee's performance.
 Due to poor techniques, inefficient process and workplace practices could result in
creating a negative impact on the employee's behaviour.
 Due to lack of workplace balance and flexibility, it could result in decreasing the
motivation level of employees.
 When it comes to factors, uncomfortable working conditions could result in creating a
negative or direct influence on the employees performance. If a person is not satisfied
with their incentives, salaries and time it could result in directly affecting the
performance level (Järvensivu, 2020).
 The culture of the company plays a very important role and if the culture and
surroundings of a workplace are toxic, it could influence the employee's performance.
All the above factors are considered to be the main factors which could affect the productivity
and performance of the individuals at the workplace and could result in demotivating the
employees at work.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that it is very important to have deep
knowledge about the different factors which could result in motivating the employees to work
and also it involves the different negative and positive factors that are experienced by the
employees as a result of their job roles. Also it helps in deep understanding about the company's
factors which could improve the overall performance of the company and can motivate the
individuals for performing better job role in the company.
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