Importance of Motivational Theories in Managing People and Systems

Managing people and
systems

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Motivational theories.......................................................................................................................3
Maslow Hierarchy of Needs........................................................................................................3
McClelland need theory...............................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books & Journals:........................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Every organisation knows that they have to manage staffing people in the workplace
environment properly so it has to manage activities of the company (Leroy and et. al., 2018).
This is the reason that every organisation is focusing on motivating their employees but they find
that it can be more effective if they are using motivational theories for them. Motivational
theories give motivation to the employees in order to enhance and encourage towards
organisational goals and objectives. This report is critically analysing the importance of
motivational theories with the help of some examples. It shows that how organisation use
motivational theories.
MAIN BODY
Motivational theories
Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow need hierarchy theory is one of the most widely used to motivate in the
workplace environment as it is easy to apply and effectively in order to motivate employees
towards organisational goals and objectives (Mahto and McDowell, 2018). There many
multinational companies which use Maslow’s Hierarchy of need motivational theory such as
Tesco, Cadbury, Sainsbury, Unilever, etc. It consists of 5 important stages of this theory which
are very well explained through below mentioned points:
Physiological needs it is the first stage of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in which
organisation need to focus on fulfilling the basic necessities of employees. The first motive of
every employee is to fulfil their basic necessity such as food, shelter, clothes, etc. There are
many organisations which fulfil their physiological needs by providing wages and salaries to the
employees which is fixed. For example, Unilever provide minimum wages to their employees so
that they can meet their basic necessities. It is really helpful to the employees in order to
motivate towards organisational goals.