Understanding Why People Work in an Organisation

This report explores the different factors that motivate employees to work in an organisation, including feeling a sense of working in the right organisation, salary, non-monetary incentives, company culture, and personal life. It also discusses the positive and negative factors that employees experience in their job roles, such as friendly co-workers, good management, wages too low, and biases. The report concludes that organisations should provide an effective working environment to gain the advantages of human resource capital.

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World of Work
Understanding why people
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body ......................................................................................................................................3
The various factors which motivate employees to work.............................................................3
The positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles...............5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References .......................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
An individual carry a number of qualities at their work, based on personalities and skills.
When an organisation start and recruit the employees, then the employee's stable characteristics
affect the behaviour and performance in an effective way. Moreover, most of the companies
recruit people with the expectation to complete work and make expectation for certain skills,
abilities and based on the major personalities. There are different reason that is helpful for
understanding about why people work in an organisation. Money, Having independence and
work with community are the three main reason for work in an organisation (Agrifoglio, Metallo
and Di Nauta, 2021). As after Covid-19, many of the people understand the value of money,
work style and having independence in their own life. This report consists the different factors
that motivate the employee for work. Another section will discuss the positive and negative
factors that an employee may experience while working on their different job roles.
Main Body
The various factors which motivate employees to work
There are different factors of motivation, that play an important role within every
business or organisation. It would be helpful for using organisational functions in an effective
and efficient ways. People who are looking for the new job are looking forward for the
companies that may provide them work satisfaction (Factors That Impact Employee Motivation,
2021). As it will be helpful for them to gain their future opportunities. Some of the factors are
explained below:
 Feeling a sense of working in right organisation: As per the research, this is related to
explain the employee who are looking forward for more meaningful organisation and that
have some purpose in their professional life styles. After facing the impact of pandemic
people seeing their heroic efforts from their mental and physical impacts. As it will be
helpful for the employees to feel motivated and productive within the organisation. While
having the organisational development and different learning opportunities within the
company attract the employees and make right organisational function (Aboli Mande,
2021). This factor may become the cause of job dissatisfaction and decline the personal
development of an employee. So, it is important to the employer and employees to build
a strong working environment within the organisation.
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 Salary: Salary is the factor that make a positive impact on the employees performance.
Receiving regular payment to the employees is considered for the basic growth and need
to be work in an effective manner by the employer. Salary is the factor that actually
satisfied an employee for the short term period. For the longer satisfaction salary isn't the
factor but the increased performance and a promise for getting rise in frequently.
 Non-Monetary incentives: There are different non-financial rewards that satisfied the
employee's ego and need as per the demand of market. Some of the other non-monetary
incentives are related to acknowledge the extraordinary performance, recognize the
performance and achievements. Further, it will help the employees to increase their
morale and create a positive work environment and motivate for working with high
efficiency (Putra and Ruslan, 2021). As per the research, most of the organisations,
attract the non-monetary rewards for the growth of organisational objectives and make a
low cost with the growth within the company. With the use of non-financial incentives
make executed with immediately to make financial rewards to make effect on the
productivity of the company.
 Company's culture: This is the main reason for staying or leaving the organisation.
Employees are very conscious about their company's culture and achieve organisation
goals within the company. As this is the main function and motivational factor for the
employees to make effective company's culture to become more happy, achieve better
result and fulfilment in the different tasks. Having any lack of belief or misunderstanding
to the employer's objectives may cause for the low job satisfaction, negative attitude and
low commitment values. So it is important for the growth of the employee's progress and
build an effective company's culture. This include the good working environment,
company's appropriate mission, values, ethics, expectation and make goals. Culture is the
set of effective riles for accepted behaviours to employees to make decision on the daily
basis.
 Personal Life: The employees spend their one third of the employees at workplace. So it
is important for the managers to support their team in their tough time (Sitopu, Sitinjak
and Marpaung, 2021). Having patience and understanding nature towards the team is
helpful for generating the motivated factors within the employees. This is very important
for the growth to achieve work-life balance and help the different situation to build the
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trust and loyalty with the change. It will be helpful for managing the company and work
for considering the right source at their personal life.
The positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
When an employee start working in an organisation, then they faced different experience
in their job roles. As the working in an organisation is an important aspect for different
employee's lives and spend a large number of working at their work place. With the help of
effective understanding factor and development in job satisfaction with crucial for improving
employee's performance (10 positive and 10 negative factors, 2021). There are some positive and
negative factors that actually experience by the employees while working at their job roles.
Positive factors:
 Friendly co-workers: It is essential to the employees with good working environment
and a friendly co-workers for the growth. The employees may need for the growth and
make environmental aspect for the effective caters to make a both personal and
professional development in the company. As when the employees get the friendly
working environment, then their productivity increase (Hu and et.al., 2021). Whereas,
when the working environment is poor then it will leads to the difficulties to get different
things done.
 Good management: Individuals growth is related to the effective promotion and fair
treatment within the company. Having a good management system and appropriation is
related to the growth in management. Having effective management system within the
company is helpful for getting more productive and efficient employee's performance. It
could be useful for the employees to perform in a happy environment and achieve the
organisation's objectives in appropriate time.
 Variety of work: There are different factors that affect the employee's productivity
within the organisation and one of them is having varieties in the work culture. As the
more challenging environment in the company create the more associated nature of the
employee with ability and capabilities (Leyer, Reus and Moormann, 2021). So, it will be
helpful for the company to work and make systematic changes in different challenges
with appropriate job satisfaction and automatically raises up within the organisational
sector.
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 Feel the contribution: Most of the organisation are helpful for generating the different
motivational factors to understand the fundamental factors. As having the feeling for
work in the team and stay motivated by having promotion or successful in achieving
tasks. If an employee feel the important part of the organisation and belong for the
growth in higher chances of job satisfaction.
Negative factors:
 Wages too low: The wages and salary are treated to work in significant nature and make
complex behaviour for the growth of the company. It will be helpful for generating the
multidimensional factors for getting higher job satisfaction. As the need of money doesn't
help the basic need of the individual but grow the upper-level of need satisfaction within
the company (López Bohle and et.al., 2021). This factor become the negative point for
the company and decline the growth and productivity within the organisation.
 Lack of fringe benefits: These are the benefits that are related to the non-monetary
payments. This may include pension plans, profit sharing programs, vacation pay and
many others hat are granted to the employees by their employers. When the company is
not able to pay these benefits then the employees may feel demotivated and result in
declining their performance.
 Less personal development: Personal development always helpful for change their life
in a good way. It will allow the employees to flourish and live the moment with more
effective ways. But when the organisations are not able to pay and make succeed within
the organisation.
 Biasses: Having inclusion in the workplace is the significant goals within the
organisation and make difficult choices for the growth to achieve appropriate ways.
Biasses within the organisation may decline the trust of employees (Farivar and
Richardson, 2021). Moreover, this factor demotivate the employee and decline the
performance report of the employee at their chosen work role.
Conclusion
From the above report, it is concluded that the company should provide the effective
growth within their workplace. As, it help the company and their employees for growing in
market and retain them for the longer period of time. The reason for choosing different factors
and characteristics to join the organisation and work with sufficient culture. Further, this report
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show about the positive and negative factors that actually faced by the employees while working
in the company at different job roles. All of these show that an organisation should follow the
right and effective working environment to gain the advantages of human resource capital.
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