Theories of Motivation and Application in the Modern Workplace

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Topic: Discuss theories of motivation and how to apply them in the modern
workplace
Motivation can be defined as an internal part of the organisation that helps form and
motivating the individuals and improvising their functioning. Motivation is an inner feeling
of an individual that drives a sense of working within a person to perform on a particular job
and achieve the results by fuller utilisation of the capabilities (Lee, E. and Seomun, G., 2021).
In the context of organisational motivation, it acts as an important aspect for the business firm
to motivate the employees and improve productivity to maximize profitability. In the context
of recent time, it is identified that most of the organisations are using different kind of
motivational theories about the work done by the employees. These theories are effective in
boosting the sense of motivation with employees and encouraging them to achieve results in
an effective manner (Zlatev, Jacobsson and Paju, 2021). Theories of motivation can be
defined as those frameworks that are developed by particular authors to identify the concept
of motivation within the organisation and utilising it for the benefit of the form full star the
most effective theory which is well known and widely used by the organisation is Maslow's
need hierarchy theory for Star as for the Maslow's theory of motivation act as that part of the
organisation which enable the firm to utilise the human resources ineffective enough and
boosting the sense of working within them. As for the motivation theories, Maslow
developed the five basic needs that have to be followed by the organisation and must be
fulfilled to achieve the sense of motivation within apply. The files basic needs are related to
human wants that must be satisfied to increase the motivation of an employee (Ekkekakis and
Brand, 2021). Maslow follows a hierarchical structure that consists of a paramedical
approach to utilise the theories of motivation. Divided the theory into five different livers
these are psychological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs, self-
acquisition needs.
Fulfilment of this need is a must within the organisation for increasing the employee
motivation for starting the first needs are related to psychological needs that included within
the Maslow hierarchy theory. These needs are related to the basic human survival needs that
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