Understanding why people work

This report discusses the factors that motivate employees to work, including salary, promotion, and work environment. It also covers positive and negative factors experienced by employees and coping strategies for negative factors. Course code: PRO192, BMP3004. Course name: World of Work.

BMP3004
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 6
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job
roles 7
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a
result of their job roles 8
Conclusion 8
References 9

Introduction
As there are various sort of the reasons for which an individual work as per to another
reason for which the individual perform their work. Work offers more dependency and
control to an individual in their life. It also offers financial stability, career development,
learning opportunities to the people (Cheng, 2021). This report will involves the form of
several factors that will encourage individuals to perform task. It will also involves several
positive and negative factors that will experience by candidates as effects of their job duties.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation – Motivation will termed as the procedure that will starts, manages and guide the
targets orientated behaviour in the people. It involves emotional, psychological feature,
biological and social forces that will maintain behaviour of the individuals. Such forces will
energies their behaviour and will have an impact on orientated field of activities in the person.
Motivation in relation of work is essential that will supports to maximise the productivity
section of the candidates that is advantageous for the business of management. It will also
maximise the involvement of the individual with performance that will also decrease their
level of absenteeism in the management.
Maslow’s Hierarchy theory
Maslow's hierarchy theory was presented by Abraham Maslow in the year of 1943.
This theory will comprises with five tier of individuals requirements that involves
physiological, safety, love and belonging needs, esteem and self-actualisation (Dunton, and
et.al., 2021). The explanation of diverse requirements of Maslow's theory are as follows -
 Physiological needs - Physiological needs are fundamental desires and wants of the
individual. It involves food, sleep, clothing that are essential for survival. It is
essential to fulfil individual requirements as without satisfaction of such requirements,
human being will not work adequately.
 Safety needs - After satisfaction of physiological requirements, security desires that
are essential to fulfil. Individual in their life need varied certainty and power that
might be satisfied by social group, personal relations and management. For example,
candidates require job security that will bring stableness in their living.
 Love and belongingness needs – After fulfilment of physiological and security
requirements that are essential. Belongingness will termed to emotional requirements
that are related to association, interpersonal dealings, connection that are also being a
part of their group.
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 Esteem needs - Esteem needs are other essential requirements that are felt by
individuals that involves self-valuable of individual, respect and achievement. It
might be accumulate into two sections that involves esteem for oneself and honour for
goodwill. The individuals who perform task and get respect from their seniors, will
directly encouraged them to work.
 Self-actualisation - It is last requirement in Maslow's hierarchy that involves
realization of effective, self-satisfaction and also seeking personal development
(Peavy, and Banta-Green, 2021). It supports the individuals to gain all their
potentiality, knowledge and abilities that encouraged them to perform task.
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation Extrinsic Motivation - Extrinsic motivation will relates to the motivation through
which the individual will get encouraged to present their role of task and involve in
various actions with the purpose of earning rewards or to ignore penalization. In this
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Illustration 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy theory, 2020

present section, individuals involve in varied manner of actions that are anticipating to
get something in return not because they are managing it or determine it by fulfilling.
By this individual will get encouraged by getting incentives and bonus.
 Intrinsic motivation - Intrinsic motivation is termed as motivation in one of an
individual who are involve in varied actions when they are determining it more
fascinating. In this present situation, the individual is presenting an action as per to
their involvement or fulfillment instead of external bonus.
The various factors which motivate employees to work
Motivation is essential for the worker to perform work in the business of management
that will allow them to perform the task with faithfulness and learn new things. As there are
several factors that will motivate individual and employees to work. The factors that
encourage the individuals to work in the management that are as follows -
Salary – Salary will termed as the fixed amount that the individual will get in return of their
task from the management (Wang, and et.al., 2021). It is essential factor for the individuals as
it offers them financial stability. With it, the individual will capable to satisfy their
requirements by getting any goods.
Promotion - Promotion is other component that will encouraged the individuals to perform
task. It will supports the individuals to get career development and also offers them varied
chances to learn new form of thoughts. It offers several new set of roles to the individuals and
will also maximize their pay scale. With the promotional manner, the individual will get
respect and pretentiousness from candidates working under it.
Work Environment – Work situation will defined to a component that will consist setting
through which candidates perform task that will get effects on performance of employees. It
develops both positive and as well as negative impact on the performance of candidates. By
having in working environment is an essential factor that will encourage individuals to
perform task (Wu, and Krahenbuhl, 2021). Positive working environment will get maximize
the involvement of candidates and will let permit to create new abilities to take
responsibilities while on the other side working environment will get maximize the employee
turnover in the management. In the positive working environment, candidates are ready to
perform their work willingly for achievement of managerial targets.
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The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job
roles
As there are several positive factors that are experienced by candidates and it will
resulted of their job responsibilities. Such factors will create them satisfaction with their job
role that will maximize their involvement with work. As there are some of the factors that are
faced by the person of their job role that are as follows -
 Good relationship with colleagues - Good relationship with workers and associates
is termed as one of positive section that are experienced by candidates while
performing in the business of management. Dealings with workers is essential for
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Illustration 2: Employee motivation, 2021

workers that they require someone with whom they can interact. The individual
require to perform with diverse individuals in the management for achieving of
managerial targets (Hollingdrake, and et.al., 2021). Good relationship will supports
the candidates to be comfortable at workplace and will also concentrate on their task.
 Learning and career development - Learning and career growth is some other factor
that are experienced by the candidates at the field of workplace. It will also supports
them to learn new abilities the manner to create new abilities like encouragement,
leadership, team-performance, communication, listening and so on. The individual
will require to perform their role in the management by which they get learning and
career growth opportunity that will develop them more able and effective.
 Job security - Job security is an other component that are managed by varied
individuals to creates them satisfied. It is an authority that are granted by the business
of management to their candidates for their line of work for further. It supports the
management to create employees highly satisfied with their role that will allow them
to perform work for longer period of time in the management.
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job
roles
As there are several negative factors that are experienced by the candidates that will
have an impact on their execution (Lim, and et.al., 2021). It will maximize the involvement
of candidates in the management. Such factors will not allow candidates to perform their
efficiently. As there are some negative factors that are experience by candidates in the
business that are related to their job function that are as follows:
 Workplace conflict - Workplace conflicts are inevitable as candidates in the
management are of diverse aspects, mode who perform their work together for
achievement of managerial targets. Such issues are essential to maintained and solve
it that will develop negative impact on the management. Workplace issues will have
negative impact on the productivity of the individual.
 Negative working environment - Negative working surrounding is also termed as a
factor that are experienced by the individuals from their line of work that will
demotivates them. Negative environment will not allow the candidates to concentrates
on their activity and it will also deviate them to another actions like chitchat, political
relation. In this state, candidates are unable to focus on their task that will decrease
their profitability.
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 Poor management - Poor management is other negative factor in the business of
management. It is harmful for all the sections of life in relation of candidates and
leader relationship (Raby, and Madden, 2021). It will develop an impact on mental
state of candidates and profitability of an individual. It will effect in their work that
will relates to the stress and will not allow the individuals to interact efficiently.
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a
result of their job roles
The management adapt several plan of actions that will supports them to decrease its
effects of diverse negative factors that will also allow management to operate as effectively.
As there are varied term of plan of actions to be adapted by management in respect to
overcome its effect of such factors that are as follows:
 Provide opportunity to express opinion - Management might offers opportunity to
individuals to present their thoughts. It will develop the part of the management to
satisfy them (Gustafsson, 2021). It is essential for organization to know its effects of
several variations that occur in the management that are connected with working
hours, working situations and varied other.
 Provide trust and respect - It is essential for the management to maintain trust
among candidates and management. Such mutual trust and point of esteem develop
employee and it will also make sure that individuals are working for longer term as
effectively.
Conclusion
From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that, individuals are performing their
work in the management for diverse faculty as they require adaptability in their life and it will
also require effective control in their life. As there are diverse set of the factors that will
encourage individuals to perform their task that will develop them interdependent. Such
factors that involves salary will offers financial stability to an individual, promotional and
offers career development and working environment that will maximise the involvement of
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candidates. Candidates experience several positive and negative factors from their job role
such as job security, dealing with workers and many other.
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