Understanding why people work: A study on motivation and strategies to cope with negative factors

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Contents

Introduction 3
What does Motivation Mean? 3
The various factors which motivate employees to work
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The positive factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles 6
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles 6
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees
experience as a result of their job roles 7
Conclusion 7
References 8

Introduction
Motivation can be defined as the framework that initiates, maintain and guide
the goal oriented behavior of the individuals in an organization. It is a important point
that helps the managers to apply in the company so that they can guide the actions
of the employee towards the goal (Alsawaier, 2018). Motivation helps to increase the
efficiency of the employees that helps the organization achieving the productivity in
the products and services. In this report there will be the discussion on the Maslow's
hierarchy theory of needs that helps to better understands the wants of the
employees. Along with that there will be the evaluation of the various factors that
motivates the employees. This report contains the brief discussion on the positive as
well as negative factors that employees faces during their jobs. At the last of this
report, various strategies have been discusses to cope up with the negative factors.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation:- Motivation is an internal process of the body that focuses on to
satisfy the various needs and wants of an individual. This concept is highly used by
the upper level of management to converts the actions of the employees towards the
goal in a effective and efficient manner. Motivation includes various types of needs
whether they are the basic needs or the needs that helps to achieve the growth and
success in the future. For example, Unilever have professional people in the
company who contiguously determines the needs of their employees (Dörnyei,
2020). They keep on satisfying from basic to self-actualization needs of the
employees through which they remains more focuses towards the goal the company.
Concept of Motivation are mainly discussed under the two elements that are as
follows:
 Extrinsic motivations:- This motivation can be defined as those needs and
wants that are comes from the outside of an individual and it is generally not
considered as the inner desire. This types of motivation includes praise,
respect, money etc.
 Intrinsic motivations:- This motivation can be referred to as the needs and
wants that arise inside the individuals. This type of motivation includes the
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