Motivational Theory and Factors Affecting Employee Performance

This report examines the motivational theory and factors affecting employee performance. It discusses the positive and negative aspects of job roles and strategies to cope with negative factors. The report also highlights the various factors that motivate employees to 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.....................................4
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.....5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Business management is the process of operating then business enterprise in order to lead
domestic as well as international market. It gives assistance in managing and operating,
coordinating ad cooperating the business in effective as well as efficient manner (Graham, 2020).
The present report will examine the motivational theory which is utilized to boost the
performance of the workers. Furthermore, the report will highlight the positive and negative
aspects that individual person face while performing the job role.
MAIN BODY
What does Motivation Mean?
The Maslow’s hierarchy is the theory of the needs which stated that a human is influenced
by fulfilling their demand at workplace. The need consists of five element such as psychological,
Safety, love and belonging desires, esteem need as well as self-actualization needs. These
desires can create internal pressure that encourage individual behavior to work in effective as
well as efficient manner. At the workplace it is essential to motivate the person in order to boost
the productivity of the organization. Moreover, the motivational theory is bifurcated into two
parts which is mentioned as follow:
Extrinsic motivation: it is the essential part of the theory which play crucial role in identifying
the behaviour and act of the organization’s worker. It drives the external factor which includes
rewards, bonus, commission, health as well as financial benefits. The salary is not the only factor
which influence the workers to work. In order to acquire the benefits, the members of the
organization enhance their skills and knowledge at workplace (Ryan and Deci, 2020). The
employees of the organization expect something in return of providing effective as well as
efficient manner.
Intrinsic motivation: this kind of motivation is considered is the most effective as well as long
term method for accomplishing the goals of the organization. It gives assistance in completing
the desire of individual weather it relevant to personal as well as professional. The intrinsic
motivation is concern with reverence and self-actualization need of the person. Due to this

encouragement the people utilized individuals’ creativity as well as high quality of learning.
Performance of the task included in in intrinsic because it provides rewarding to the employees.
The various factors which motivate employees to work
Salary: it is the essential element for which the individual person works for as it fulfills the
financial need of a workers. It provides security as well surety to the working people along with
feeling of accomplished. The individual person enhances the living status and skills to work in
adequate method (Schunk and DiBenedetto, 2020). The high salary delivers job satisfaction to
the person who is serving the organization and helping to achieve the goals of the organization.
Promotion: employee’s promotion plays crucial role in motivating the employees of the
organization. It provides career advancement to the workers of the organization. The company
deliver high scales of the responsibility to the employees of the firm which give the feeling of
being assets of the organization. Furthermore, the employees improve the skills and knowledge
as well as creativity in order to lead the people in the organization. In the modern era everyone
willing to acquire the promotion and desire to operate the firm individually. It gives feeling of
being asset of the organization rather then being liability for the company.
Work Environment: the poor environment is the only thing which demotivate the
employees of the organization. It improves the well-being of the person who willing to maintain
the life in unique manner. In the work environment proper availability of the resources or the
equipment encourage the employees to enhance the productivity of the organization (Maslow,
2019). The positive vibes of workplace decrease the stress of the individual as well provide good
health to the people.
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
The positive experience at the workplace enhances the performance of the individual as
well as of the organization. It gives assistance in improving the working condition within the
institute. The coordination and cooperation among the people are the essential factor that the
workers faced as the result of the job role. When the workers of the organization experience the
positive vibes, they boost the productivity of the company which satisfy the consumers and
increase the presence of brand in the marketplace. The training and development program is
another factor by which the employees feel accomplished and willing to continue their job roles.
The training and development program help the individual to increase employee’s skills as well

as knowledge which is the element the people willing to work for (Kabaso, 2018.). The positive
feedbacks from the manger or the leader of the organization deliver the positive experience to the
employees as they are appreciated on the regular bases. The physical as well as metal work
environment ensures that the workers are secured and feel engaged within the organization. The
workforce deserves the save environment as they are serving the organization because the
employees are those asserts of the organization which represent the value of the company in the
marketplace and assist in building impression in front of the consumer or the buyers. In the
positive experience the employees ensures that the work they are doing in the firm is worthy for
the industry as well as for individual increment. The transparency between the employees and
the organization creates positive impact on the employees and enhance the performance as well
as the experience. As the manger or responsible person provide positive direction toward the
same or the common goal of the organization to the people affect the engagement in appropriate
manner (Dhamija, Gupta and Bag 2019). The following of the modern trend is the element which
deliver the message of being updated to the time period and trained them to face the forthcoming
challenges in effective as well as efficient manner. The communication and remuneration deliver
the optimistic experience to the workers as this satisfy the financial needs of the individual
person.
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
When the employees of the organization face the negative factor, the performance of both
the employees as well as organization is decreases. Furthermore, it affects the atmosphere of the
organization too and consumer avoid to prefer the services as well as the product of the
company. The low salary is the major factor that the people face within the organization because
it will not satisfy the need and wants of the workers neither encourage them to work in effective
and efficient manner (Warr,2020). When the employees have the less salary, the individual
person avoid to serve the company with full energy which decrease the productivity of the
company along with the business enterprises loss the brand value in the domestic as well as
international marketplace. When the other members of the firm do not support each other, the
individual not find cooperation among the people of the organization.

Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
For the better performance at the workplace, it is essential to increase the experience of the
employees. The organization need to improve the job role of the employees for the welfare of the
company. The individual person needs to have control over their job role. The manager can
provide the possibility to the employees to make decision and control the proper function of the
organization (Supriyanto, 2018). Along with that the leader need to provide a chance to express
the opinion which the company considered as the aera of the improvement. Beside this the leader
allow effective and flexible hours to the workers of the organization. In order to boost the
employees, the responsible person provide fair treatment to the workers as well as need to
provide the trust and respect to the worker. Therefore, by utilizing this plan of action manager of
the organization encourage the workers and enhance their performance.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it will be concluded the the employees of the organization need to
be motivated in effective as well as efficient manner to enhance the value of the brand in the
marketplace (Ekhsan, et.al 2019). This will give assistance in leading the global as well as
international market. The present report highlighted the theory of the motivation and provide an
idea how an individual person can motivate the workers of the organization. Furthermore, the
report highlighted the plans of action to enhance the job experience of workers in the company.

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