Understanding Why People Work

World of Work
Understanding Why People Work
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
What does Motivation Mean?..........................................................................................................1
The several factors which motivate employee to work...................................................................1
Positive factors employee experience as a result of their job roles.................................................2
Negative experience employee experience as a result of their Job roles.........................................3
Recommendations and Strategies to deal with the negative factors employee experience as a part
of their job role.................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References:.......................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Personality of an individual reflects the thoughts, beliefs, behavioural patterns and stable feelings
which gives an understanding of how people is likely to react and feel in a particular situation
over a period of time. Organisational culture is composed of different values, beliefs, attitudes,
opinion and behaviour of a person which helps the organisation in understanding the dynamic
and nature of their workforce (Cuesta-Briand and et. al., 2020). Below mentioned report is based
on the IOM Electronics owned and regulated by an Individual John, with the objective of
detailed understanding of what encourage employees to work along with positive and negative
experience people have while working in the company.
What does Motivation Mean?
According to the view point of Cherry, 2021, Motivation is the combination of words
“motive” which means wants, needs, desire and drives within an individual acquired through the
influence of external factors culture, society, lifestyle and through internal factors, own
willingness. People are motivated by the several factors, which initiate, guide and control the
purpose driven behaviour of an individual, to achieve their goals and ambitions and these factors
are termed as extrinsic (external) and intrinsic (internal) factors. External factors may be basic
needs, social needs, safety and security, self-esteem needs etc., and internal factors are the
desires and wants of an individual (Vargas and et. al., 2020). In the work related context, people
are driven by several factors and these factors help the business firm to encourage them to work
so that both individual and organisational goals and objectives are achieved.
The several factors which motivate employee to work
 Rewards and recognition: Rewards comes abreast with recognition, recognition start
losing its impact over employees if it is not accompanied by the good rewards.
Exceptional quality of work needs to be recognised and an efforts behind that work must
be rewarded to boost the morale and motivation level of employees.Bonus, paid holidays,
Incentives, sponsored trips to foreign, hike in salary and promotion are the few examples
that can boost the confidence level and encourage the employees to work with equal zeal
and commitment (Dengel and Mägdefrau, 2019).
 Personal satisfaction and meaningful work: An individual tend to more inclined
towards the type of job which add more value to their life and what impact does the job
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