Motivation and its components

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BEHAVIOUR

Motivation and its components
Motivation is the foremost element of any organisation to boost productivity confidence
within individual all employees of any organization. All the aspects related to any individuals at
workplace depend on the level of motivation and its extent of suitability provided to them
(Kanfer & Chen, 2016). Motivation is a component that directly drives employees’ interest
towards organisation and their level of productivity. This report tends to focus on some
motivational theories and its application at workplace with the description to forms of
motivation.
One of the renowned theories is the Maslow's theory of motivation which has a great
extent of suitability to any organisation or workplace. As per the theory, the organisational need
of an employee for individual varies in a certain format or hierarchy. In the year 1940, Maslow
presented a triangular of needs that have different stages required by an individual throughout his
work life (Acevedo, 2018). First stage is the psychological needs which comprises of all the
basic components that highly required by an employee such as food, shelter, clothes etc. The
next stage comes in the form of safety needs which includes all type of securities that are
required by an individual in terms of any physical and emotional harm (Hennessey et.al. 2015).
The hierarchy further proceeds with social needs which comprises of affection,
acceptance, belongingness and similar components. Completion and provision of social needs
highly influence that level of motivation and make an individual feels involved (Bammens,
2016). After this, the pyramid ranges to “esteem” which relates with immediate personal and
external factors such as self respect, achievements and status, attention, recognition. The last
stage is self actualization, the highest order needs concluding the needs hierarchy with the aspect
of self fulfilment and achieving life goals etc. (Kacprzak-Biernacka, et.al. 2015). Hence, these
components of hierarchy needs must be fulfilled in a certain time period to provide adequate
motivation at a particular workplace.

Figure 1: Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
(Source: Maslow’s Hierarchy Theory, 2019)
Another important theory of motivation is the Herzberg two factor theory, which states
that there are two certain elements that determine the level of motivation in any organisation.
First element is the hygiene factor which comprises of working condition, organisational
behaviour, job securities and all the influencing policies of a company (Cook & Artino, 2016).
The second element is the motivator, which includes factors such as level of participation,
recognition, respect among subordinates etc. According to the theory, an individual can be
effectively motivated by the provision of motivators at workplace such as promotional and
personal growth opportunities, providing them responsibility and suitable amount of recognition
will certainly be helpful in attaining highest level of motivation among employees or an
individual (Hur, 2018). Therefore, as per the theory providing sufficient amount of motivators to
employees or individual imparts a great effect on motivation level of employees or workforce or
an individual.
One of the considerable examples of motivation can be taken from Google, which has
been proved as best motivator for its employees. In the year 2014, fortune defined Google as the
standardized place to work because of the fact that it mainly focuses on hygiene and motivator
factors to thrive motivation of employees. The workplace included considerable hygiene factors
such as development of suitable culture and working environment. Inclusion of effective perks
such as financial, health and vacation packages for employees turn to be the most influential