Motivation and Organizational Behaviour: History, Advances and Prospects; Theory A for Managing People for Performance

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Article 1: Motivation in organizational behaviour: History, advances and prospects
1. The motivation as the organizational behaviour is concerned with the energetic forces
which originate within and beyond a person’s which influences the direction,
initiation, concentration and duration of the action.
2. The motivation in the organizations served as umbrella for the goal selection and
decision making process. The Meta framework has been procreated in the article to
precise measurement and understanding of a person, social and contextual influences
and the behavioural intentions.
3. The major advances in the motivation concerning work and organizational behaviour
has been reviewed. The foundation principles in motivation as a part of review have
been analysed. The organizing theory has been also used viewed along with the
scientific efforts in the motivational psychology.
4. The need approaches have been used to focus on organizing several motives which
characterize human striving and brings several needs. Both of these issues were
addressed by the Maslow’s need hierarchy theory. The modified theory was also
propounded to address the criticism faced in the Maslow model. This theory is
known as Alderfer’s.
5. The approaches used for the motivation in the mid twentieth century are intrinsic
motivation, goal construal theories and why approaches. The social environment
approaches contributing to the individual environment are job design, equity
approaches, ‘social influences of teams and leaders’ and ‘where and when’
approaches.
6. The advantage of understanding motivation in the organizational behaviour helps in
dealing with the human behaviour in the organizational environment. Understanding
organizational behaviour can assist to the managers and executives to understand
their co-workers and channelize skills to attain goals of the organization. the
motivation as a part of organizational behaviour leads to the organizational
development which in turn creates team spirit. The employees also got motivated to
attain organizational goals.
Reference
Kanfer, R., & Chen, G. (2016). Motivation in organizational behavior: History, advances and
prospects. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 136, 6-19.