Understanding Why People Work

UNDERSTANDING WHY
PEOPLE WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Meaning of Motivation...............................................................................................................3
Factors which motivate employees to work................................................................................4
Positive factor which motivate employee to work......................................................................4
Negative factors employees face because of their job role.........................................................5
Strategies in order to overcome the negative experience............................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
For a person to have a good life it is essential that they have a good position to work
within the corporate world. This is pertaining to the fact that when the people have a good job
then this increase their interest in working in proper and effective manner and earn a good
livelihood. Hence for working in proper manner the most essential aspect is the motivation.
There are many different factors which motivate the employee to work and it includes positive
and negative factors. The present report will also include the positive and negative factor which
employee experience because of their job role within the company.
MAIN BODY
Meaning of Motivation
Motivation is a powerful factor for enthusiasm, performance and goals. The demands, wants
and desires may be acquired through influence of traditions, way of life, civilization and usually
nature. An individual motivation may be stimulated by outside forces. In order to explain the
concept of motivation in detail, many researchers describe the motivation thought with the help
of various theories. Such as Maslow’s hierarchy theory which described as a five tier model of
human needs and desires often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. From the bottom
of the model with going upward, the needs consist of: physiological needs which includes food,
clothing and shelter requirements of an individual, next is safety needs which involves job
security in order to sustain their life in better way, next is love and belonging needs which are
the interpersonal relationships in order to motivate behaviour of an individual, fourth level is
Esteem needs which can be divided as esteem for oneself and desire for reputation, and the
highest level of need is self-actualization needs which refer to the realization of person’s
potential (Kanfer, R., 2017).
Another is extrinsic motivation theory which is described as reward driven behaviour of an
individual in order to motivate their staff members. In this approach, rewards or other
promotional kind of incentives such as praise, money, award, fame has been given in order to
motivate for specific activities. While intrinsic motivation approach is an action of doing
something without any external or extra rewards. Staff members are ready to do any tasks