Theories of Motivation and Their Application in Organizations

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Motivation is refer as encouragement to complete an action which can drive workforce of
an organisation to fulfil their personal as well as firm's overall objectives. It is key to enterprises
success as it brings the highest level of commitment and energy in firm's staff everyday. In the
absence of motivation companies can suffer low productivity, reduced outputs and may not
achieve specified goals on time (Beckmann and Heckhausen, 2018). It allows people to choose
specified set of behaviours among the many alternatives they have. The value of motivation in
organisations is that it creates sense of job satisfaction and plays major part in achieving goals.
Effectively applied motivation theories in organisation can assist management to have enthusiast
and skilled staff that will increase company's performances.
MAIN BODY
Theories of motivation allows organisation to understand what stimulates an individual to
work towards certain target or objective. These can be applied to anywhere in a society but it is
essential for business and management as a motivated employee is extra productive. But major
challenge presented in motivation theories is that every individual is different and not everyone
responds in same ways in particular conditions (Fellmeth, 2021). Organisation can understand
the diverse characteristics and needs of its employees so that they use it to incite them, improve
employee engagement and their motivation level. Motivation theories are divided into parts
which are content theories that explains what motivation is and process theories which states
how motivation occurs. Some of the content theories of motivation are explained below:
Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs
This theory describes motivation by fulfilling the needs of an individual positioned in
hierarchical order. Maslow's vision is that people have different motivation systems which does
not get impacted from the appeal of rewards. This theory focuses more on the unfulfilled needs
of a person which drives them to do more in life. The various needs in hierarchy are described
underneath:
Physiological- These needs are associated with survival and maintenance of human body
which includes food, drinking, shelter, clothing etc (Hartnett, 2018). The primary reason of every
employee to join an organisation is to fulfil these needs. In modern world, if these needs are
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