Motivational Theories for Employee Satisfaction in Tesco

TASK 3

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Motivational Theories ................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
In an organisation, the aspect of motivation plays a significant role as it is regarded as a
process of stimulating an individuals with an aim of empowering them to put their best
contribution towards an accomplishment of pre determined goal in an effective manner. Along
with this, the term motivation has been categories into two primary types i.e. intrinsic ( internal
positive values) and extrinsic ( recognition, rewards, money). However, motivation is viewed as
an integral element within any form of organisation as it lead them to obtain increased level of
employee engagement, enhance productivity ratio, generate better working culture and many
more (Abbah, 2014). This report is based upon Tesco which is one of the branded and well
established company within UK retailing industry. It operate its services across the globe by
maintaining high quality in its managerial activities. However, as per the current market
condition Tesco has taken a initiative to expand its market division by introducing new discount
stores which is named as 'Jack' in order to gain competitive advantage among its competitors i.e.
Aldi and Lidl. Hence, for attaining sustainable growth in Jack store, Tesco put is more focus on
employee satisfaction which assist them to improve its overall productivity in an improved
manner. Hence, this report covers various motivational theories which provides the detailed
understanding about the importance of manpower satisfaction inside business premises for
achieving company's purpose.
MAIN BODY
Motivational Theories
In current globalised world, one of the primal component which empower an
establishment to reach its objective without any hindrances is that increased level of employee
satisfaction. This is because, such working culture benefits an establishment in various aspects.
Some of them are it help company to enhance its market share or size, can easily improve
overall sales performance, enlarge productivity ratio and many more. In addition to this content,
it has been signified that for acquiring increased level of employee satisfaction, the concept of
motivation plays an important role in achieving the same in an improved mode (Lee and
Raschke, 2016). However, considering the importance or significance of manpower satisfaction
within an organisation, there are different types of motivational theories which provides the clear
direction or guidance to managers in terms of leading or motivating personnel in putting their
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