Understanding Why People Work - Factors that Motivate and Impact Employee Experience

Understanding why
people work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Factors which motivate employees to work................................................................................3
Positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles......................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Working facilitates them to live independent life as well as provide opportunity to learn
various new things that enhances their skills and competencies. People work to earn money in
order to fulfil their as well as their family needs and requirements such as food, shelter and
clothing. Motivation is defined as the process of initiating, guiding and maintaining goal oriented
behaviour that helps to achieve defined goals and objectives in desirable manner. Motivation
plays important role in enhancing the willingness among employees to perform their work in
beast possible manner and accelerates employees efficiency towards achieving organisational
objectives. In this report factors that motivates employees to work as positive and negative
factors that are experienced by the employees due to their specific job role are mentioned.
TASK
Factors which motivate employees to work
There are various factors that in business environment that motivates employees to work
to attain determined goals and objectives in best possible manner. Organisation maintains
effective and positive working environment that influence employees to contribute in achieving
business objectives. Employees engagement as well as commitment towards work facilitates to
organisation attain business objectives with efficiency (Bouncken, and Aslam, 2019).
Organisation develop various policies and strategies to enhance employees motivation level so
they can contribute in business success and development. Some factors that motivates
employees are mentioned below:
Rewards and recognition: Rewards and recognition are the factor that motivates
employees to retain with organisation for long period of time and perform determined operations
in best possible manner. Organisations provides recognition, monitory as well as non-monitory
rewards to employees for their extra work and efficient work that motivates to work harder to
achieve business goals and objectives (Chalmers, 2019). The main objective of providing
rewards to employees is to encourage employees to perform in appropriate manner and promote
their positive behaviour towards work. For example, Marks& Spencer provides rewards and
recognition to employees that motivates them to enhance their productivity, performance as well
as retain for long period with organisation.