Concept of Intrinsic Motivation and Its Motivation : Assignment

LITERATURE REVIEW

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Literature review..............................................................................................................................1
Motivation...................................................................................................................................1
Concept of intrinsic motivation...................................................................................................1
Benefits is intrinsic motivation...................................................................................................2
Some example of intrinsic motivation........................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Motivation is the process where the individual energy and desire is stimulated by some
internal and external factors so they can be committed and interested regularly to any subject,
job or role in order to make potential efforts to achieve the goal. For this literature review,
intrinsic motivation has been selected to highlight the effect of intrinsic motivation on the
performance of employee in the organisation. Intrinsic motivation is the process by which the
behaviour of the individual is driven by the internal rewards of the company.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Motivation
According to the view of Livingston and Sadoff, (2016) Motivation is the word which
derived from the word motive which state wants, needs and desires. It is the way where the
emotion of people is stimulated into action in order to attain the goal. There are several factors
which stimulates the behaviour of individual such as need of money, recognition, success,
team work, job satisfaction etc. The important function of the management of any organisation
is to create the ability and willingness in all the workers so that they can perform in the
effective and efficient way with their abilities. So, it is the role of the leader to generate
interest in the employees for the work so that they can complete all the task in the motivated
way. Motivation is done when the employee fell for the need, that need is created in
motivation and then that helps to satisfy the need of employee and company. On he other hand
of Gottfried and Plank, (2016) have stated that Motive is the impulse which help the person to
act in the effective manner. Motivation is the internal procedure that makes the individual to
move towards the particular goal. It is like intelligence which cannot be observed but can be
observed by noticing the individual behaviour. There are several theories which are given by
the various authors such as Maslow's need hierarchy, drive reduction theory etc. which help
then to satisfy their desire
Concept of Intrinsic Motivation
According to the view of Menges and Grant, (2017) intrinsic motivation is the
motivation which is derived from the internal rewards, in simple words it can be said that
intrinsic motivation is arrived when the individual is engaged in the behaviour because it is
naturally satisfying them. It is implimented when there is no act of external rewards or the
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