Theories of Motivation and their Implementation in Modern Businesses: A Case Study of Tesco

Individual Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Theories of motivation and how modern businesses implement them at work place............3
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................7
REFRENCES..................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Motivation refers to the process of forcing someone in positive way to perform and desired
a manner so that they can achieve goals and targets. Every organisation stimulates their
employees so that they can develop desires and needs to perform in effective manner (Wardani
and et.al., 2020). It is very important as it results in improving quality and productivity of work
which directly increases revenue generation. This report is based on Tesco which is a
multinational groceries company which is headquartered in England, UK. It was established in
1919 and founder of this company was Jack Cohen. This report will include about motivation
and theories of motivation along with the evaluation of how modern workplace adopt these
theories for enhancement of their profits.
MAIN BODY
Theories of motivation and how modern businesses implement them at work place
Motivation is very important part for each and every organisation as it guides, initiates and
assist in maintaining goal oriented attitude and behaviours of their employees. It involves
emotional, biological, cognitive forces, social which activates behaviour of employees in
organisations. Motivation also helps in increasing the innovative ideas, commitment and energy
of employees at work place so that they can contribute their efforts in improved manner (Hattie,
Hodis and Kang, 2020). Managers of Tesco uses various methods to motivate their employees
using monetary and non-monitory factors which are according to the preferences of their
respective employees. It is the responsibility of managers to identify the factors which motivate
their employees to great extent so that they can influence and guide them in desired manner.
Modern organisations like Tesco can use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Which consist of five
levels of needs which should be fulfilled according to their pyramid. This theory was developed
by Abraham Maslow in 1943. Organisations should adopt this theory which proves effective in
analysing the needs and fulfilling them according to the preference of employees.
The first need from the hierarchy is physiological needs which consist of basic needs of an
individual. These needs are necessary for the survival of human being which consist of air,
water, food, clothes and shelter. Tesco focus on these needs on prior level because without