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Motivation at workplace

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTIONMotivation in work place is defined as a resource which every organisation manages bysatisfying individual needs of every employee in order to achieve organisational goals. In thisreport Walmart will be chosen for assessment. Walmart is a public American Multinational retailcompany. It runs as a chain of departmental stores whose revenue is US$500.374 billion.Organisation has its headquarter in Arkansas, United States. Organisation was listed on Newyork stock exchange Company is owned by Walton family, so it is a Family oriented businessorganisation. This report will focus on different motivation theories that are used at a work placeto motivate employees. Theory given by Maslow Hierarchy of needs and Herzberg's two factormotivation hygiene theory will be explained in brief. Furthermore, Hygiene factors andmotivators will be explained in brief to make understand Herzberg's two factor motivationhygiene theory of motivation. Need for achievement, Affiliation motivation and PowerMotivation will be explained in detail to get detail knowledge of McClelland – Need forachievement, affiliation and power. MAIN BODYMaslow's hierarchy of needs theoryThis is the most famous theory of motivation which is given by Abraham Maslow in theyear 1954. The base to this model is that there are five stages of needs of every human being.Every person has some needs which gets increased according to the priorities in life. This theoryis adopted by companies to motivate its employees because Maslow's theory concentratesmajorly on needs of employees who work for the establishment (Kuvaas Buch and Dysvik,2018). It places this needs at five levels and are categorised in decreasing order as per thepriorities of workers. He follows the fact that once a level of need is attained then that can nolonger motivates a person. Next level of wants should be used to motivate a person. Below areall the levels of Hierarchy of needs.There are the basic needs of every human being which includes food, water, shelter andbasic essentials of life. These needs are used for daily survival in life. Once these are attainedthan employees are required to be motivated by next level needs. For example: An employeedoes not have place to live and food to eat than company will motivate that work man to workfor his living rather than working for a secured job (Tatum, Formica and Brown, 2017). Safety1

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