Understanding Why People Work - Factors, Positive and Negative Experiences, and Coping Strategies

This report discusses the factors that motivate employees to work, positive and negative experiences they have at the workplace, and strategies to cope with negative experiences. It also highlights the importance of motivation in generating work from employees and for the success of the organization.

Understanding Why
People Work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
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..................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Motivation is the Procedure that initiates, conduct, maintains aim oriented behaviours. Its the
process that influence people to act in accordance to accomplish the goals. Its a very important
function of management that makes and create keenness amongst the workers to perform their
best within their abilities. There are various ways by which a company can stimulate motivation
on employees such as their need for money, want to get recognition, for the success of business,
for job satisfaction and many more. Organisational environment and social context also plays a
major role in inner motivation. There are various types of motivation from which employees get
motivated it includes Intrinsic motivation, Extrinsic motivation, Competence motivation,
Attitude motivation, Achievement motivation, Physiological motivation, Fear motivation, Power
motivation and many others. A strong motivation will enable employees to get increased output
that will also help in performance growth(Alhassan and Greene, 2020) . The aium of this report
is to highlight the factors that motivates employees to work and to get positive and negative
experience that an employee get at workplace.
TASK
The various factors which motivate employees to work
Motivation at the workplace can help in influencing workers to work more hard and remain
dedicated towards work. Its not only help in getting speed in productivity but also push
employees to produce high quality work (Anguelov and Angelova, 2021) . There are various
factors which motivates an employees to work on targeted goals some are discussed below:
 Development in career- Every employee wants an advancement in their career for
growth and by providing various development opportunities at workplace can boost the
motivation of an employees. Giving ongoing career development and industry related
skills for enhancement is what an employee needed.

 Gaining power- There are a type of people who want to get power and position in the
company to achieve targeted goals. By working hard an employee can get that authority
in the organisation to use it for the benefit of the business.
 Be in the competition- An opponent sometimes help to influence others to work hard. A
sense of competition make them to perform better in different departments and
encourages employees with the motivation to perform better.
 Monetary needs- By working hard to achieve desired aims results in higher pay scale
which is the prime key of why an employee is working in the organisation. Money can be
prove to be the most effective motivator in terms to generating targeted work from
employees.
 Receiving Recognition- By being recognised for the contributions that an employees can
make in building organisation and in increased productivity is the best way to boost
intrinsic motivation (Handayani and Daulay, 2021) . Appreciated for the abilities and
efforts and offering them rewards and incentives for their actions will help in getting
organisational goals faster.
 For the success of the business- Those motivated by the success of the organisation gives
them a clear goals to work and it also gives them accomplished once they achieved their
assignment. Success play key role in running an organisation and to maintained that one
needs to work harder.
 Organisation positive culture- Company culture help very much in driving employee
motivation, it is founded that those who are working in organised and healthy culture
will have higher productivity compare to those who doesn't have nice culture to work
(Razak, Sarpan and Ramlan, 2018). Improving company culture certainly results in more
output.
 Job security- By securing their job in future can help in motivate the employees to
perform better. Job fluctuations is the reason why many workers left job or doesn't give
desired output but by assuring them for their future growth motivates them to give their
best in work.
 Giving them constant feedback- By constantly checking employees in terms of their
performance and giving them continuous guidance about their working is helping
employees to get better and faster results.

The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
 Psychological safety: It is the one of essential factor to have optimistic experience in the
job. Psychological safety refers to the freedom to share your opinions in a meeting having
the conversation with fellow colleagues without demonizing each other. All this will
make the employee valued, protected, cherished and respected (Soliman and Altabtai,
2021). This safety is quite important in workplace as safety gives you the mental stability
and enhances your work productivity.
 Knowledge and Development: A workforce is much more than the showing up 10 clock
in the morning and leaving at 6. To have the phenomenal experience in the work it is
important to have flow of communication and exchange of ideas. It is a human behaviour
that they are filled with curiosity and they want to learn new things and dump their mind
with the experiences and reach their utmost goal which is career progress for instance :
educational programs , workshops and team building activities.
 Independent : It is important to maintain a friendly culture in the company and give the
autonomy to the company employees. It improves the company culture as well this in
dependency will boost the leadership qualities among employee moreover this will give
the greater sense of value to the company employee.
 Adaptable working environment: If company has work – life balance it makes the path
become quite easier for the employee as the balance in work and life gives maintains the
mental state of well being. As the every individual has the life outside the company and
satisfied with their work in this they can maintain the higher contentment in their life.
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
 Paucity of challenges: The employee experience gets negative as there are not much of
challenges and the boredom is intensified. The lack of problem solving and critical
question makes the employee laid back and the zeal of working reduces their
productivity and to do work progressively.
 Lack of recognition : When the employee do not get accoladed for their work it adds
into their negative experience and saddens the individual. When their contribution is
never acknowledged by senior and the higher authority it declines their spirit to
achieve their targeted goals and the spirit to give their best shot in a work however it

drains their energy emotionally and mentally (Teneqexhi and Dollija, 2021).
Simultaneously they start losing out their connection with their fellow employee and
with the community.
 Workplace conflict : The one of the factor for declining motivation of the employee is the
conflict in the company between team mates or the with supervisor. As it is said you
passes your energy and positivity if any of the employee lacks the sense of ambition and
maturity the passes the vibe to fellow individual and it may start creating the discord
between the employees. It becomes difficult and tenuous task for the company to dole the
motivation among all the employees to stop the conflict and provide the better and clash
less surroundings.
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles
Negativity is an increasing problem in the workplace which affects the performance of workers
negatively and overall affects the profitability of the organisation to tackle this problem, there
are some strategies to cope up with negative experience that employees had at workplace;
 Create a learning culture- By creating a learning culture in the organisation where an
individual entity face new challenges and develop their leadership and functional skills
can help in setting up future success for employees as well as organisation.
 Provide career support- Unexpected loss of job can be stressful and difficult for an
individual to work, working in an organisation which provides an opportunity to show
their strengths and clear their goals works as an effective strategy.
 Open and honest communication- By structuring the environment which is open and
honest and add transparency in communication can build trust between leadership and
employees and prepares them for future opportunities.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that motivation plays a key role in generating work from
the employees and for the success of the organisation. There are factors of motivation that is
responsible for employees better performance in business. It gives the reason why people want to
work. The factors that motivates employees to work harder and to improve their performance are
career opportunities, giving them rewards and recognition , filling their monetary needs,
assigning them authority, the healthy culture of organisation and many more. It also explains the

positive and negative experiences that employees have in the organisation and strategies to
reduce them.

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