Understanding Motivation and Factors Affecting Employee Performance

BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
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.....................................5
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
The report will start with the explanation abbot the term Motivation and the types of
motivation. It will address one of the theory of motivation given by the authors. Further, there is
a description about the factors that motivate the behaviour of employees to work efficiently and
effectively in attainment of the organizational goals. In context with the motivation, the report
will guide about the positive and negative factors experienced by them and how they are affected
while performing their job roles. Lastly, it will discuss the actions which can be used by the
employers to motivate them and improvise the negative experience employees faced.
MAIN BODY.
What does Motivation Mean?
The word Motivation is derived from 'movere', a Latin word which means 'to move'.
Motivation is termed a process of encouraging and initiating someone to work efficiently and
attain the objectives. It is the force that drives the human behaviours, it contributes in fuelling the
sense of competition among the employees. It is termed a goal oriented process because it guides
oneself towards the attainment of goals. To motivate the employees there are various ways such
as monetary and non monetary incentives which includes promotion, transfer, recognition,
bonus, and so on. The motivation is divide in two parts intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Intrinsic Motivation is the motivation that influences the person internally which means
that an employee is performing the job because it will contribute to its experience, learning and
career development. It means that it is rewarding to the employee itself (Liu, 2020). Extrinsic
motivation is influenced by the external factors that is the employees perform their jobs because
of the external factors such as rewards, recognition or sometimes punishments or penalties.
Employees work efficiently because they get motivated by the premotion policies, increased pay,
bonus, etc.
Maslow 's hierarchy needs theory is the most used theory of motivation at the workplace.
The needs are depicted in a form of pyramid on the basis of importance of the needs. It is a
model representing five needs of the humans are Self Actualization, esteem, love and belonging,
safety and physiological needs (Ștefan, Popa, and Albu, 2020). Fulfilment of needs influences a
motivation and encourage them to work. Self actualization needs means focusing on the personal
need of an employee such as his career, education, skills development, and enhancing its talents.