Understanding why people work

This report explains why people work and different theories and approaches that describe the concept and significance of motivation. It elaborates on the key factors that motivate employees to do their best within the organization, the positive and negative factors experienced by employees, and strategies to cope with negative factors. The subject is Business Management with Foundation, course code BMP3004, and the course name is World of Work.

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work

Contents
Introduction 1
What does Motivation Mean? 3
The various factors which motivate employees to work
4
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles 5
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
6
Conclusion 6
References 7

Introduction
All people around the world work for the eventual aim of seeking a improved lifestyles.
It is wisely evaluate that an individual work exclusively for money. But in today's world rather
than for wealth, people are still motivated to do work for many reasons, including to realize and
fulfill their duty in society, to avoid thriftlessness, and to keep their mind progressive (Guda,
et.al., 2020)..
In this report will explain about why do people work and different kind of theories and
approaches that will describe the concept and significance of motivation. The key factors that
motivate employees to do their best with in the organization. Further it will elaborate the
pros and cons components that has been faced by the employees while working in the
company.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation is the activity that boost, advice and maintain goal oriented action. It is a
powerful factor which encourages an individual to give their best performance which help an
organization to achieve their goals, the term "motivation" is often used to driving the force
behind human actions (.Chou, et.al., 2018).
Maslow's hierarchy theory is a classical description for motivating human. This is a
pyramid of 5 needs that analyize the basic and interpersonal needs of an individual. This five
needs are as follow-:
▪ Physiological needs- These are common requirement of an individual which
includes water, air, food clothing and shelter. No one can live without these factors
so it is important to fulfill these needs.
▪ Safety needs- After satisfying the physiological needs these desires arise. It
includes physical, environmental and emotional safety and protection. These
must be fulfill in order to have a long term sustainability.
▪ Social needs- after satisfying these two needs these wants arises that includes
the need for love, warmness, precaution, belongingness and friendship. These
makes the person stress free and mentally stable.
▪ Esteem needs- as fulfilling all the needs this needs of self esteem arise that
include the want to be respected by the peers and colleges. The esteem need is
further divided into two parts internal and external esteem needs.
▪ Self-actualization need- This is the final want of the person that includes the self
satisfaction and desires to be respected with in the surrounding where the

person is working. This include the motive of an individual that what they can
become according to their ability and capacity. It view the needs for development
and self contentment.
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations are two types of behaviour input. Extrinsic is the
stimulation of behavior through external factors and intrinsic is a behavioral catalyst driven by a
desire of personal satisfactions. Both of these can effectively impact human's behavior.(
Iavicoli, et.al., 2018).
The various factors which motivate employees to work
Salary:
It is the most primary element used to motivate the employee even though salary is not a
motivator. It can becomes an issue when perceived lower than the salaries of other that are
performing similar jobs in same organization. With the compensation peoples are never
completely satisfied and always requires more. The assumption that money motivate an
individual is supported by pay for performance schemes and general setup of payment plans
(Balfe, Sharples, and Wilson, 2018).
Promotion:
It is a technique which promotes the person to higher designation or position in an
organization. It creates a development in the interpersonal skills of an individual that makes them
feel respected by the pears and mates. It is basically manage to a worker who has shown a better
performance or developed the ability and knowledge essential.
Work Environment:
A poor work surroundings can have a harmful consequence on workers presentation and
well-being. By developing the different working environment it encourages the employee's to do
work in new ways which helps the firm in achieving their goals effectively and efficiently. .
Organization should regard the employee expectation by making several areas,in which the
employee's are allowed to relax their mind and body.
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
The experience of work enjoyed by a worker in result to their interactions with the
system. There are many different areas where an organization can concentrate on rising the
employee experience-:
Meaningfulness- Employees should have the complete knowledge of their work, and
they should know their share in that project. With the proper conversation between worker and
management this factor could be accomplish.

Work space- The physical and psycho social work environment play an important role in
employee attitudes towards their work and organization . They deserve a positive environment
where they are treated with honor, there hard-work should be recognize and they receive help and
sympathy during tough time. (Dulac-Arnold, et.al., 2020).
Modern performance management- By giving the power to staff through which they
can have the potential to talk to their project leaders or management. The company should
develop free engaged transparent and people oriented culture for their employee's.
Growth opportunities- Every employee wants to upgrade their ability .Different
employees have respective skills that should be honed and celebrated. The firm should organize
multiple training programs to keep employee's update in their specialize field. (Khalid, et.al.,
2019,).
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
Conflicts and unpleasant interpersonal interactions- This relates to annoying action or
situations directed at an employee by fellow workers, managers, supervisors or customers. These
circumstance involve communication trouble, assertive communication, lack of fellow feeling
and awful mood behavior.
Job stress- When employee's are not happy to work in a particular firm, then the stress of
work will be experienced by the employee. An individual who are enjoying their work are much
less likely to report feeling stressed out by their job.
Threats to self-efficacy and performance- This element refers to personal trouble or
weakness that in some way threaten an individual's self-efficacy and negatively influences
employee's behaviors, attitude and action towards the organization.
Failures, interruption and annoyances- The circumstance or state originate from work
that in some manner strike the individuals daily work. For example, someone in the team making
a error, being off-and-on during a project or arriving late for work (Liu, et.al., 2019.).
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
Provide trust and respect- Treat the employees as they are trustworthy. While hiring a
new employee the position of trust is essential which can be verified by execution, honesty and
effort to know their original position.
Focus on creating solutions- The organization should focus on developing solution to the
problems which motivate employee's in performing well rather than focusing on negative or
wrong employee's outlook or action. These helps in creating positive morale's for employee's and
co-workers.

Target punishment and rules- It is not required to create rule for every employee when
only few of them are violating the norms. The number of rule can be minimize for guiding the
action of individual at work.
Opportunity to express opinions- In the firm opportunities should be provided to
employee's for expressing their thoughts regarding rules and process. The impact of changes such
as work hours, pays, benefits assignment of overtime hours, dress code and office locations must
be recognized as all these factors are close to an individual. (Rémillard-Boilard,Buffel, and
Phillipson,2021).
Conclusion
It is concluded from above report that people works for living and satisfying their needs and
wants. Motivation plays a critical role in individual life to accomplish set goals. Maslow's
hierarchy is one of the best theory of motivation and further it is apart into 2 parts extrinsic
(external factors) and intrinsic(internal factors). The various cause that motivate employees are
salary, promotion and work environment. There are some positive as well as negative factor that
people experience in their job. In this report there some strategies like (opportunity to express,
target punishment and rules etc.) which can help an organization to tackle negatively affected
employee's.

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