Impact of Motivation in the Workplace: A Study on Costa Coffee

This study investigates the impact of motivation in the workplace with a particular reference to Costa Coffee. It includes a literature review, research methodology, questionnaire, results, and conclusion.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review........................................................................................................................................4
Research Methodology:...............................................................................................................................5
Questionnaire:.............................................................................................................................................6
Results:........................................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Background to the study: Motivation is the process of stimulating, inspiring and encouraging
the human resources of an organization so that they can do more hard work in order to achieve
the objectives as well as goals of the organization. With the process of motivation, an
organization can maintain employee retention and engagement within the workplace. The
respective process results in strong stability in the manpower of the company. It also provides
assistance in developing the level of confidence among the employees of the organization as well
as improves the performance of work along with securing their loyalty and reducing their
absenteeism and labor turnover (Bushi, 2021). Motivation facilitates in improving the brand
image of organization and ultimately, captures the competent personalities within the workplace.
Within this presentation, there will be an investigation on the impact of motivation in the
workplace with a particular reference to Costa Coffee.
Aim: A research into the impact of motivation within a workplace of Costa Coffee.
Objectives:
 To understand the concept of motivation in Costa Coffee.
 To determine the importance and impact of motivation in Costa Coffee.
 To identify the approaches and practices of motivating human resources within Costa
Coffee.
Rationale of the Study
The main reason behind choosing the topic of motivation is to give detailed information
regarding the respective topic as the process of motivation is becoming very popular and
effective in this modern era. It is because there are a lot of situations that occur within an
organization where the manpower of the company feels demotivated as well as restless. There
are sometimes situations that occur such as lower level of absenteeism, ineffective working
performance of the employees, ineffective customer service and many others (Jung-Gehling and
Strauss, 2018). Because of such situations, there is a need to motivate the workforce of an

organization so that they can work harder towards the attainment of objectives as well as goals of
the company.
Literature Review
Concept of motivation:
As per Shauna Kelley (2022), Motivation is described as a way in which the
administrators of an organization foster the level of productivity within their human resources. It
is considered as a driving force that impacts the selection of the alternatives in the behavior of a
person. It also helps in improving, stimulating as well as inducing the workforce that leads to
goal-oriented behavior. The concept of motivation is about the ways in which a business can
encourage its employees in order to give their best. The staff that gets motivated care about the
success of the organization as well as working better towards the attainment of the organizational
goals and objectives (Lares, Sosa-Fey and Worley, 2020). Motivation is the process that
facilitates in initiating, guiding as well as maintaining the goal-oriented behaviours. Motivation
theory is the study of gaining the understanding what drives an individual to perform its
functions towards a specific objective or goal. That is because a motivated manpower is more
productive and a more productive workforce is more effective as well as profitable. Motivation
will provide assistance to an individual in attaining its personal objectives as well as goals. In
case, if an individual gets motivated then it will have job satisfaction. The concept of motivation
will facilitate it in its personal development. A person would always gain by working in a
dynamic team and therefore will get motivated through developing self-confidence within itself.
Motivation is considered as a force that induces an individual for the purpose of doing actions in
such a way that it must ensure fulfillment of a specific requirements or needs of a person at a
time. The key objective of motivation is to create the conditions within the workplace in which
the people are willing to work with initiative, zeal, enthusiasm as well as interest.
Importance and impact of motivation
Motivation is the defining factor which turns a better idea or thought into an immediate
action. In context to a business, it turns a good idea within an organization and can favourably
impact the world (Maneechaeye and Potipiroon, 2022). The concept of motivation plays a
significant role in an organization because of the following benefits it provides:

 Motivation puts human resources into an action as in every business there is a
requirement of the financial, physical as well as human resources in order to attain the
targets of the company. It is possible through motivation that the human resources can be
utilized effectively and optimally. It can be done through developing willingness to do
the work. This will provide assistance to an organization such as Costa Coffee in securing
the best possible utilization of all types of resources. The process of motivation also
facilitates in improving the efficiency of the manpower as the level of employees or a
single workforce not only relies on the abilities or qualifications. In order to get the best
of its working performance, the gap among the willingness as well as ability is required
to be filled which will assist in the process of improving the level of performance of the
employees (Nakibuuka, 2019).
 This will help in enhancing the productivity, profitability as well as efficiency of an
organization. It will also reduce the cost of operations and improve overall efficiency of a
business.
 Another importance of Motivation is that the objectives of an organization can be
attained only when the following factors will takes place such as there is the best possible
utilization of the resources. Goals and objectives of an organization can get achieved in case if the
concept of cooperation as well as co-ordination takes simultaneously that can be effectively done
through the process of motivation.
Approaches and practices of motivating human resources
According to HRM (2022), There are a wide number of ways in order to motivate the
human resources o an organization. People behave in a way that they believe is in their best
interest, they constantly seek payment for their efforts. They expect good performance to lead to
organizational goal achievement, which in turn leads to meeting their individual goals or needs.
Then, the organization uses the rewards to motivate people (Nyinyimbe, 2020). A spot award is
one given to an employee as soon as the laudable performance is observed. These awards are
consistent with principles of motivation because they are contingent on good performance and
are awarded immediately.

Research Methodology:
Research Methodology is defined as an outline of how a particular piece of investigation
is carried out. This approach also facilitates in defining the techniques or the processes which are
used for the purpose of identifying as well as analyzing the information about a particular topic
of the research. Research methodology is also referred to the systematic theoretical analysis of
the procedures that are applied to a field of study. It also consists of the theoretical analysis of
the body of methods as well as principles that are concerned with a branch of knowledge. In the
context to Research, research methodology plays a significant role because it concentrates on the
particular procedures as well as techniques that are used by an investigator for the purpose of
identifying along with analyzing the information for a specific topic. It actually deals with the
section which permits the critical evaluation by the readers in order to authenticate the validity as
well as reliability of the project.
Within the existing research, the investigator has made use of the research onion and it
has included the strategies like experiment research, action research, interviews, systematic
literature review, surveys and many others. The researcher has chosen the strategy on the base of
the needs of the information or the data for a specific study. At this situation, it becomes
significant for a researcher to take a decision regarding the research design (Siriwardana and
Padmasiri, 2019). The investigator will use the quantitative research method for the purpose of
getting the outcomes in the form of numbers. It becomes suitable for the people in order to gain
the understanding as it consists of the diagrams and graphs that become easy for others to
understand.
Within the quantitative research method, this is essential for an investigator to make use
of the method of sampling in order to select the audience for the purpose of collecting their data
or information. The researcher has used a random sampling approach with a sample size of 20
for researching the implication of motivation within the workplace of Costa Coffee. Those
participants who are involved in the questionnaire to evaluate the consequence in the quantitative
terms include consumers, stakeholders, employees and many others.
Questionnaire:
 Q1. According to you, motivation is crucial in workplaces?

 Q2. What is the meaning of motivation?
 Q3. Is it important for organisation to use motivation techniques? Give Reasons.
 Q4. What is the impact of motivation in the workplace productivity and performance?
 Q5. What are the approaches that can be used by the organisation for motivating its
employees?
Results:
From the discussion, it can be identified that the process of motivation provides a
favorable impact on the productivity as well as performance of the employees and the
organization as a whole. This is also essential for an organization in order to understand that it
requires to give effective motivation to its human resources through providing them incentives,
bonuses, appraisal and many other rewards. This will provide assistance to the respective
organization in enhancing the level of performance and productivity of its manpower and
company as a whole.
An organization is able to attain the goals as well as objectives in an effective as well as efficient
manner. It is also identified that the organisations which are engaged in making use of
motivational techniques are found to be more successful in comparison to the other businesses. It
is also recognized that the process of motivating human resources within a company is becoming
essential for the managers of a business as every day there is a change in the nature of business
environment and it becomes dynamic and complexity for an organization.
Conclusion
From above explanation, it has been concluded that the aspect of motivation is becoming
significant in modern workplace because there are a lot of situations that occur within the
business and enhances the level of stress on the human resources of the company. It has been
also analysed that the process of motivation is directly put its influence on the performance of the
employees and organisation as a whole. There has been a favourable relationship between the
process of motivation as well as the performance of workforce because if an organization can
effectively motivate its employees then it can automatically enhance the performance of its
human resources and entire organization. The concept of motivation is applicable in each as well

as every kind of business and hence, the scope of this present project is broad because it is not
only beneficial for a single business but it is also beneficial for each as well as every sector.

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