Reflection on Motivation at Work and Leadership

This paper reflects on the concepts of motivation at work and leadership and their importance in organizational behavior.

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Introduction
The given paper is based on the reflection of the terms which are recognised as
Motivation at Work and Leadership. In this connection, the term motivation at work is
defined as the synergy of controlling the job in a working business organisation that is
inspired by the factor of motivation (Kanfer, Frese and Johnson 2017). The same is known to
include the components related to the ability of the senior-level managers to have a powerful
impact on the decision as well as the setting of the bright and measurable goals for the
organisation to be accomplished by the employees. Leadership is defined as the functional
skill area that is known to encompass the agility of a person to lead, support and guide other
people or groups and organisation (Wilkinson et al. 2019). Concerning these ideologies of the
two variables stated as Motivation at Work and Leadership, I reflect my viewpoints on this
topic of my interests with the medium of this paper.
Motivation at Work
I firmly believe that the synergy of providing the aspect of motivation at work should
be considered as an integral part of the organisation which should be fostered in the working
environment of firms on a daily basis. This is because motivation at work is considered as a
vital part of the organisational behaviour connected to every business entity (Thompson
2017). When coming into context with the aspect of motivation, my real-life experiences
have proved me that motivation helps in the encouragement of an individual to work in an
effective and efficient manner. Motivation also helps an individual to have self-realisation to
work and perform their tasks in a more dignified manner (Bendassolli and Tateo 2018). I
have indeed realised an essential factor in the concept of motivation, which brings in light the
idea that the motivation provided to the individuals should always be a positive one in nature.
The same is also relevant in the case of Herzberg Dual-Factor Theory of Motivation which

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defines the manner a working business entity should motivate its employees so that the
organisation is benefited by the work of the employees (Judge et al. 2017).
The Herzberg Dual Theory of Motivation is known to be sub-divided into two parts,
mainly as positive motivation as well as negative motivation (Kerr 2016). The positive
motivation states that the employees should always be focused on providing a better working
environment with the active synergy of performance appraisal to the employees. This will not
only help the firm to motivate the employees to work harder, but the employees will also be
sustained in the firm for a more extended period of time. In lieu of this, the negative
motivation is that aspect which dissatisfies the employees to work harder and continue their
term period in the organisation. This negative motivation comes up in light when the
employees get a terrible infrastructure of work and an unhealthy as well as the biased
working environment.
In consideration of learning the aspect of the dual-factor theory, I felt that the synergy of
providing motivation at work is crucial for every productive business organisation because it
helps the organisation to receive a better performance level and earn better employee loyalty.
When employees are sustained in the business organisation for a more extended period of
time, the cost of frequent recruitment and process will decrease for the organisation thus the
same will be able to make a higher level of profit as the cost of operations would also get
reduced in return (Greenwald 2018).
Leadership
Considering the concept of leadership, I have come into a context that the synergy of
Leadership plays a highly significant role in the implementation of the substantial and ethical
process of work in a business organisation. This belief of mine has also been signified with
the help of several research studies. In this consideration, it was analysed that the context of

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leadership helps the individuals as well as the group of individuals working in a team for a
particular organisation to understand their part of the job and work accordingly with the
instructions provided by the leader (Katzenbach and Smith 2015). The organisation works
effectively only when a leader is known to be efficient in managing its team and other
individuals of the organisation. As stated by Sosik and Jung (2018), the followers are known
to follow the footsteps of the leader and gets influenced and encouraged by the manner the
leaders perform their job.
Thus, in connection to the behavioural theory of leadership, it can be stated that the
aspect of leadership is that ideology which proposes the specific behaviour of an effective
leader to an individual who is a non-leader (Alvesson, Blom and Sveningsson 2016). The
above-stated theory clearly signifies that the pattern of the actions and activities carried up by
the different individuals is what determines the leadership potential of the same. It also states
that the behavioural approach of the leaders towards the work is what influences the team to
work. Therefore, the leaders of a business organisation should be competent enough to
manage their work as well as guide and support the team to work harder and with better
efficiency (Bryson 2018). In light of this, it can be stated that the organisation should choose
its leaders with prior responsibility and cautiousness so as to ensure that the work of the
organisations is carried on a continuous and profitable basis. In case, that the leaders of an
organisation are ineffective and insufficient in fulfilling their tasks and motivating the other
causal employees to work harder, the same will affect the entire working condition of the
organisation and the desired goals and objectives of the firm will result to a failure (Jordan et
al. 2019).
The study concerned to this ideology of leadership made me realise that an
organisation needs to have proper leaders in their working conditions so that the desired level
of result is achieved in the business context and processes. This study made me understand

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the fact that a real leader is not the one who creates the number of followers, but a real leader
is considered to be the one who creates a better amount of effective leaders.

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