Understanding Why People Work and What Motivates Them: A Study on Positive and Negative Factors Experienced by Employees

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Contents
Introduction 1
What does Motivation Mean? 1
The various factors which motivate employees to work
p
The positive factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles p
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their
job roles p
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees
experience as a result of their job roles p
Conclusion p
References p

Introduction
Motivation define as a strategic tool that is used by manager to encourage
employees for attaining targets on time frame. It is various number of factors that
motivate workers to continue the job roles (Suchman and Trigg, 2020). The report
demonstrate an understanding why people work that and what motivates one to
achieve the targets on time. In this organization need to emphasis on understand
the behavior, actions of people so that they easily encourage staff members to
accomplish the goals on time. Hence, this report undertake the explanation of
motivation along with several aspects that encourage employees to work within an
organization. Further this report includes positive and negative factors which
employee experience as a result of job roles. At last it includes strategies to cope
with negative factors at job roles so that targets are attained on time.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation refers to a process that guide, initiate, maintain goals-oriented
behavior of individuals at workplace. It involves individual emotional, social, cognitive
forces that is used to activate the behavior. Motivation is of two types intrinsic and
extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is the one where individual accomplish the goals
without getting any external gain (McNeil and et.al., 2020). On the other hand
external motivation is one where employees are getting motivated to receive external
appreciation. Both these type of motivation are linked with the maslow need
hierarchy theory. Therefore to effectively understand employees intrinsic and
extrinsic needs maslow theory is presented below:
 Psychological needs- It is expressed as core needs that represent as
extrinsic needs because in this employees desire to receive external benefits
such as basic pay. To get basic salary workers are emphasis to attain targets.
 Safety needs- It involve safety and security that that is a part of intrinsic
needs where individual motivates to attain goals to receive safety and
security.
 Love and belonging needs- It involves also intrinsic motivation where
human work when they feel connected and act as a part of team. This intrinsic
motivation encourage staff members to accomplish goals properly.
 Esteem needs- This particular need include confidence, self belief, personal
and social acceptance etc. therefore mainly human behavior are driven by this
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