Understanding Why People Work

This report explores the factors that motivate employees to work and the positive and negative factors they experience in their job roles. It emphasizes the importance of motivation in the workplace.

UNDERSTANDING WHY
PEOPLE WORK

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Several factors that motivates employees towards work..........................................................................3
The positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job role..............................5
CONCUSION..............................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
There are several types of people who work for fulfill their responsibilities, for love.
Motivation is one of the main reasons for people to work in the organisation. Motivation is a
word that simply means needs, drives, wants, needs within an individual person. It represents the
process of people that stimulate their actions towards attaining the goals (Weng and et. al.,
2020). This report undertakes the several factors that encourage employees to work within the
organisation for attaining the goals and objectives within specified time period. In this it also
inculcates positive and negative factors that employees experience while working as a results of
their job role.
MAIN BODY
Motivation defines as a process of guiding, maintaining and initiating goals focused
behavior. This mainly represents psychological and mental force that mainly directs the nature of
group of people (Anderman and Anderman, 2020). There are two types of motivation factor such
as internal and external motivation. In terms of internal motivation people are motivates towards
work internally as it is a type of psychological concepts. Further external motivation is a factor
that motivates employees from outside the individual in several manners such as money, praise,
rewards and recognitions etc.
Several factors that motivates employees towards work
Motivating employees towards work is highly crucial and does not difficult or costly the
earth as it helps in developing balance in various factors. There are several factors that are
presented below:
 Salary- It is one of the best factors that motivate employees towards work. Receiving
constant payment especially with the reference of permanent employees salary is
considered as a basic need that is highly satisfied the workers for sustain within the
company to a longer period of time. Therefore salary is termed as short term satisfaction
that enhances the performance and promise of getting rise in pay frequently (How Can
Salary Influence a Worker's Performance in an Administration?, 2021). It represent the
basic need under the maslow’s need hierarchy theory due to which workers are working

with satisfaction and firm will enjoy long term profitability within marketplace. If the
salary is lower than the expectation of employees that is could cause dissatisfaction and
disengagement. Therefore getting equitable salary is not motivating employees to show
their performance in better way but it would reduce the feeling of frustrated within the
particular job. For instance- MOMA foods is an organisation who focus on offering
regular salary to their employees as per their job role and working criteria that helps in
encouraging performance better so that high objectives are attained on time.
 Promotion- This factor is another way to motivates employees towards work so that
effective working is performed by employees within the organisation. However,
organisation are not affording the risk of losing experienced and talented employees
within the company and due to this they do promotion in various manner such as offer
transfer to employee to work in native region, compensation, promote to higher position
as per employee capability so that remarkable performance is performed by firm in their
long term survival (Top 9 Factors That Impact Employee Motivation, 2021). Hence, it is
a best and long term factor that motivates employees towards effective working. For
example- In case of Marks and Spencer, manager is highly focus on promoting
employees as it is one of the crucial factors to motivate workers towards working. It
mainly represents the esteem stage in employee life as it also offers safety and security to
employees within the working environment.
 Work environment- This is another factor that highly motivates employees towards
working. Therefore employees are encourages to work efficiently and effectively when
they get the positive working environment within the workplace of company. However, it
mainly represent physical environment such as office working space, interior and non-
physical environment like collaboration and positive connectivity among team mates,
supportive nature of employees etc. all these helps in encouraging employees towards
effective working (Huang and Kuo, 2020). To positively stimulate workers to work
productivity team lunches and dinners are to be done along with several festive occasion
parties. For instance- Microsoft is a leading company that offers employee’s suitable
working environment in which number of festive parties and dinner are also organized
that helps in motivating employees towards work and attains them for a longer time

period. Due to this employee feel fresh and calm that support company in encouraging
employees towards effective and efficient working.
The positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job role
Positive factors that employees experience as a result of their job role
There are several positive factors which the employee experience while performing the
particular job role (Nakkula and Toshalis, 2020). Therefore, it is very essential for organisation
that employees are experiencing satisfied atmosphere at their job so that they will retain for a
longer period. However, employees enjoy an integrated experience with professional, financial
and emotion support. Several factors that positively impact employee experience are presented
below:
 Good and attractive pay- It represent an effective and remarkable factor that represent
positivity in employees experience as a result of job role (Huang and Chang, 2020).
Within an organisation if top authority cannot offer deserving pay to candidates as per
specified job role than it negatively affects the employees and they also experience
negatively within the result of their job role. Attractive pay in terms of regular salary,
promotion, compensation helps employees to experience remarkable within particular
organisation. For instance- Tesco is a multinational grocery brand who highly focuses
on offering good and attractive pay to their regular and talented employees that represent
as a positive factor that worker experience in the job role.
 Friendly and supportive co-workers- This is another positive factor that employee
experience while working under the specific job role within an organisation. In an
organisation if working atmosphere is friendly where co -workers are also very
supportive in completing the particular assignments than individual employees feel
satisfied and secure at the presented job role. For example- In case of Rio Tinto,
management follows supportive and friendly culture to maintain decorum within working
environment due to which every individual employee perform their task effectively and
productively (Foster and Williams, 2020). These also feel comfortable and secure due to
which particular job targets are attained on time. This positive factor is experienced by
workers at the results of their particular job role.
Negative factors that workers feel as a result of their job role

Negative factors are those factor which affects employee morale and satisfaction level
due to which overall task achievement is also affected in negative manner. There are various
negative factors that employees experience within their particular job role is discussed below:
 Work related stress- The negative factor that employee experience is reflect the stress
that employee face during work for a longer time period. Stress within work affects
employees working practice due to which their overall productivity is to be slow down.
Therefore this affects the company revenues; sustainability and profitability because of
this firm face major loss in competitive business industry (Song, Gu and Zhang, 2020).
For example- In terms of Marks and Spencer, if top authority creates more work pressure
on employees on their specified job role within limited salary pay that they cannot
perform well and also experience insecure and frustrate due to which overall
requirements of task are also not fulfilled. Pressure under work creates several types of
causes that employee expeirnce lifetime while working that are:
o Lack of training and development session
o Face insecurity under particular job role
o High demands are needed by company from employees that creates pressure on
employees
 Manager show ignorance towards the new ideas- It is another negative factor that is
experienced by employees while doing particular job role. In this when manager or a
leader cannot give more attention to the employees ideas, suggestions and issues that they
does not give productive results to company as by not fulfilling their prescribed job role
on time (Thorpe, 2020). For instance- In case of Waitrose plc it is to be identified that
manager adopts the autocratic style of leadership where they only provide guidance to
employees related to completing the work and because of this employees feel less value
and it will creates negative experience among employees. Due to this they cannot
perform their particular job role in effective and efficient manner. To overcome with this
negative factor companies need to implement participative and democratic style of
leadership where every employee feel satisfied and experience positively.

CONCUSION
From the above report it is to be concluded that motivation is a significant term within the
business industry to attract and encourage people towards effective working. This particular
study helps in understanding the various aspects that motivates employees towards work so that
organisation would enjoy large amount of profits along with longer sustainability within the
marketplace. At last it demonstrates the positive and negative factors that workers feel in their
particular job role.

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