Motivation in the Workplace: Understanding Why People Work

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Contents
Introduction 1
What does Motivation Mean? 1
The various factors which motivate employees to work
p
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles p
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles p
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees
experience as a result of their job roles p
Conclusion p
References p

Introduction
Employees play a vital role to perform the operational activity in a company’s
functions. Motivated employees succor the firm to achieve the organizational goal as
well as maintain their decision-making function more effectively. Hence, it is the
foremost priority for the organization to improve their employee performance as well
as efficiency by creating a healthy and positive working environment in the
organization. About the above discussion, this report will include several practices
that help the organization to improve their employee work-ability and create a
favorable and productive working environment. The report will be the inclusion of
various factors which motivate employees to work as well as also reflect the positive
and negative factors experienced by an employee in their job roles. At last, a
dedicated strategy will be deployed to overcome the negative factors in job roles
(Goede, and et. al., 2019).
What does Motivation Mean?
Definition of motivation
Motivation is a process through which a person got the reason to perform such a
task more effectively and efficiently. Through such motivation, greater goals can be
achieved with the great utilization of resources. Regarding this managers of
organizations use such practices in their organizational functions to achieve better
performance.
Maslow’s Hierarchy theory; extrinsic and intrinsic motivation
In the instance of the above discussion, Maslow's hierarchy is a theory that
classified the five categories regarding the human needs through which human behavior
can be identified easily to motivate the individuals (Klein, 2019). These are the inclusion
of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation through which an individual can be motivated towards
effective work;
 extrinsic motivation- Extrinsic motivation is the practice in which an
individual gets motivated to engage in the activity for earning the reward.
About this several organizations perform such functions to engage their
employees.