Understanding Why People Work: Motivation and Factors

This report discusses the concept of motivation and the various factors that motivate employees to work. It covers Maslow's five-tier model of human needs, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and factors such as salary, promotion, work environment, and personal life. The report also discusses negative factors such as workplace conflicts and poor management, and strategies to cope with them.

UNDERSTANDING
WHY PEOPLE
WORK?

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: .........................................................................................................................3
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................3
what does motivation means.......................................................................................................3
The various factors which motivate employees to work: ...........................................................4
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job roles:...................................5
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles:..................................6
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles:....7
CONCLUSION: ..............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION:
This is a very common and at the same time very crucial question that why do people work
Everyone in the world is dragging themselves out every morning to the work station. The
simplest answer for all the questions would be that everyone has a living and every person wants
his life to be more better than yesterday. And the only thing that can fulfil all the wants and
needs is money and it basically come when you work. So it can be said that it is a circle that
regulates life and all the activities that has been performed. Hence, in this report how can people
be motivated to their works to complete that circle has been discussed.
TASK1
what does motivation means
Motivation basically can be defined as the process or act to give someone the strength or a strong
mindset or give someone a reason to complete their task by giving their best and with full
efficiency in order to accomplish the organisational goals (Pidduck and et. al., 2022).
MASLOW'S HIERARCHY THEORY:
In this theory of motivation in the subject of psychology, Maslow's introduced a five- tier model
which describes the human needs and describes an individual's behaviour and how they are
motivated to do their work in a hierarchical levels with the help of a pyramid diagram. The
model has been described as follows:
 PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS: Physiological needs can be defined as the basic need that
every person needs to have in order to survive which are air, water, clothing, food and
shelter. In addition to this ,Maslow also included the sexual relationships in the hierarchy
since it is an important part to survive and to promote the species.
 SAFETY NEEDS: These needs can be defined as the environmental, physical and
emotional safety. People like to have control over their lives and they want it secured it
from all the directions like financial, health and job securities. This however motivates
people to be back on their work.
 SOCIAL NEEDS: Maslow defines social needs as the acceptance, love and
belongingness. These are the basic needs which a person needs for his emotional needs.

Social needs can include friendships, family, relationships or any groups which helps to
get motivated for the tasks they have been assigned.
 ESTEEM NEEDS: Respect and appreciation is the thing which everyone wants from
others. This however plays an important role in one's motivation level. Then
automatically the person will start to complete their task and fulfil the organisational
goals to be recognised and set as an example in front of the society. This also helps the
employees to know their worth for doing a task.
 SELF- ACTUALISATION NEEDS: An individual always desire to become what he
thinks he is capable of. It can also be defined as the full utilisation of capabilities,
potential and talents. It not only help them to complete the goals and make a successful
career for themselves but also show others what they are capable of (Marasco and et. al.,
2022) (McKee, 2022).
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION: It can be defined as if the person has been motivated by any
other outer factor which in result will enhance his performance and help to accomplish the goal.
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: It can be defined as the process of completing a task without any
external factor affecting or he is motivated by the inner him itself and then do better in any task
allotted.
The various factors which motivate employees to work:
 SALARY: A regular coming income is all an employee want and is considered a basic
need in everybody's lives. Also, a person will want that if he is willing to do his work
with full potential, he will expect in return a good payment which is actually the only
basis in between. It then becomes like a motivation for the people to work constantly with
a positive environment as in return they know they will be getting a reward in the form of
salary.
 PROMOTION: Every employee desires to get promoted to a more higher position in the
workplace in return for the efforts and time he has invested for the company. Therefore
the companies always try to give its employees a chance to do better in their career lives
and the employees always appreciate them. Promotion however not only meant in terms

of monetary value but also to enjoy some privileges in the organisation like expense
accounts, paid off, company cars, insurances and many more.
 WORK ENVIRONMENT: Work environment thrives the employees to be motivated
all the times. It is divided into two categories of physical environment which includes
surroundings and the non-physical includes communication between the co-workers.
Giving regular feedbacks and creating an environment where people can freely ask
whatever they want.
 PERSONAL LIFE: People work in order to fulfil their personal needs and to give a
better life to their families. However there is a lot going on in a person's life which make
them thinking about it too much and they can't be able to work efficiently. Company
however can do the first step by being patient and understand the situation (Hansen,
2022). This shows that the organisation really cares about its employees and an help them
to maintain a work-life balance. This also keeps the employees motivated to give back all
the efforts to the company by achieving the organisational goals.
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job roles:
 TRUST IN LEADERSHIP:
One of the positive factor that employee often experience as a result of their job roles is that in
every organisation they see their employees as an assets and enhance their leadership qualities
and promote every decision and ideas they make. They will not give the importance to the people
who are in the organisation for a longer period of time. This however also motivates the person
as it is a positive factor in the journey of his job (Ha and et. al., 2022) .
 GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES AND SKILL ENHANCEMENT:
It is applicable for all the people working out their that no one wants to be doing the same work
for a very long time. Everyone wants to be promoted in a way that is both financially and on a
high hierarchy position. This is considered as the very best positive factor while gaining the
experience and at the same time it always make the people to be motivated in order to get the
higher position with handsome amount of salary and experience with reputation at the same time.
And at an individual level it also makes the person knows of what he is capable of.
 MODERN PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:

Every employee in the organisation wants to be appreciated of the work he is providing with his
full efficiency at the given particular time. This again is a gesture which keep the employee to be
motivated all the time and hence resulting an inner desire to do good for the company itself
(Getzen and Kobernick, 2022). No only appreciation, the faculty should also give very frequent
feedbacks to the employees which will result in the better quality of their work and
understanding and at the same time it will make the work environment which however is
considered as the hidden factor of getting the people motivated and excited about the work and
the firm.
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles:
 WORK PLACE CONFLICTS:
Work is a place which is meant to be professional and healthy, if talking about he environment.
Generally it has been seen that the employees evolve in the bad thing of gossip which can
internally create many differences among the thought process of the people (Beissinger, 2022).
Hence, people will try and do conspiracies to each others and this will lead to the breakdown of
trust and unity among team mates, which is not good for the organisation at all as this will lead to
mismanagement and decrease in the revenues and production of the firm.
 POOR MANAGEMENT:
Bad management can be defined as making an environment that can lower the moral of the
employees. The major negative point is this only as management the only thing whop assist the
work to the people and keep them motivated, however if the management is poor and not treat
employees they way they should be treated will be a major fail for the firm.
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of
their job roles:
 RECRUIT WELL: Human resource in the firm can be play a major role in coping up
with the negative factors by recruiting the right people with the right skills and are
recruited for the right job which can help the firm to do good in future.
 COMMUNICATE: Good communication between the staff and the mangers has always
resulted in the best results. So by communicating to the employees about the problem and
can get to a mutual solution will help both the parties.

 SET CLEAR GOALS: Management changes itself due to being dynamic in nature and
it should set the goals that can be actually achievable in the real world and employees can
also adapt themselves in the environment.
CONCLUSION:
From the above report named understanding why do people work, motivation has been discussed
which states that it is an act of giving some mental strength to any person and give him a reason
to do his work more efficiently. Maslow's five tier model has also been discussed which shows
the needs of humans. It includes self-actualization, esteem, love and belongingness, safety and
physiological needs. The various factors which motivates employees to work has also been
discussed. The positive and the negative factors that the employees experience as a result of their
job roles has also been discussed and lastly, the strategies to cope up with them is also their in
the respective report.

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