Understanding why people work

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Contents
Introduction 1
What does Motivation Mean? 1
The various factors which motivate employees to work
3
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles 4
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles 4
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees
experience as a result of their job roles 5
Conclusion 6
References 6

Introduction
Motivation basically refers to the process that initiates, guides and direct a
goal oriented behavior in the employees. Thus, having high level of motivation is
important and vital for all business organisation as it supports higher efficiency level
and employee performance to achieve set organizational goals (Pink, 2021). The
current report comprises of a discussion about the meaning of motivation along with
Maslow’s hierarchy of need theory. Further, a discussion about the various factors
which motivate employees to work along with positive and negative experience in job
role is also made.
What does Motivation Mean?
The definition of motivation comprises of an instance or providing with a
reason to someone to act in an efficient and certain way to achieve the set goals and
targets (Susana, 2021). The three most important words that comprises within the
definition of motivation are needs, value and goals. Thus, the process of motivation
within a firm comprises of identifying the needs of employees along with the
analyzing their values and most important things that creates a driving force to act
and move towards the accomplishment of goals and desired outcomes. Further, an
analysis can be made out that the concept of motivation is important and crucial for a
business organisation as it allows employees to have a change behavior and
develop positive competencies in them which comprises of creativity, growing
interests, developing talents and boosting engagement which are vital for better
accomplishment and achievement of set organizational goals (Nickolauson, 2021).
Maslow’s Hierarchy theory
The first and foremost step of motivation comprises of identifying the needs
and expectation of an individuals. The Maslow’s Hierarchy theory was given by
Abraham Maslow who was a well-known American psychologist and has developed
the hierarchy of the needs which explain the human motivation in a systematic way.
The Maslow’s Theory has suggested that all people used to have a large number of
the basic needs which must be effectively met to motivate and direct an individual’s
towards improved performance by the way of pursing social, emotional and self-
actualizing needs (Ning, 2021). Discussion about these five categories of needs
provided by the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs which plays a vital role in directing and
motivating employees towards a set organizational goals are provide below:
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