Theories of Motivation and Their Application in Modern Workplace

Assessment 2

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Motivation plays an important plays an important role in an organisation. The theories of
motivation increase spirit level of employees towards work for achieving the predetermined
goals and objectives. It is very important to have a positive motivational level in employees. The
organisation’s management has to keep a check on employee’s motivation in the business
organisation. It motivates and pushes the employees who lack motivation to work in effective
way. Motivation of employees in any organisation is key element as it helps organisation to be
present for long term in market (Goede and Boshuizen‐van Burken, 2019). Thus motivation
involves psychological factors that inspire human behaviour towards great performance. The
existing essay covers various theories of motivation and their application in modern workplace
which consists of analysis related to various motivation theories. This essay covers two factor
theory as well as Maslow need hierarchy theory of motivation. Along with this, essay also covers
importance of motivation and various theories are also discussed at modern workplace.
MAIN BODY
Motivation is process of stimulating the behaviour and attitude of individual person towards the
achievement of goals and objectives. Motivation is the inner feeling of the person which are very
helpful for them to complete any task or the project in effective manner. Motivation is one of the
important and valuable aspect for modern day business (Jeha, Knio and Bellos, 2022). There are
many companies are present in the market under which the load of work is very high which
creates tremendous level of stress in employees. The stress and anxiety disables the employees to
conduct their work with accuracy and effectiveness. The motivation of employees is depending
upon their needs and desires which the management of the organisation needs to analyse in
effective manner. If the needs of employees become satisfied in the organisation, then it becomes
easy for the organisation to motivate their employees.
There are different number of motivational theories are present in the market which can be used
by the organisation to understand the concept of motivation in effective manner. The brief
discussion related to these theories are such as Maslow's Theory of hierarchical needs,
Hertzberg's theory and many others. In Maslow's Theory, Abraham stated that there are various
needs and wants of an individual person should be satisfied then that person is motivated and
dedicated to complete tasks. There are various needs that are needed to be satisfied for an
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