Understanding why people work

Understanding why people
work

Table of Contents
Understanding why people work ....................................................................................................1
What does Motivation Mean? .........................................................................................................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........................................5
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles..........5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References ..............................................................................................................................6
Books and journal ......................................................................................................................6

Introduction
The basic motive behind working of an individual is to earn their livelihood. Without working
they are not able to earn money and fulfil their three basic needs which are food, house and
shelter. Apart from the above mentioned reason there can be other reasons too for which
individual prefer to work. All those reasons will be covered in this in this report file. This report
will also cover understanding of motivation and how it work for employees in organisation for
increasing their efficiency. Various negative and positive factor that effect individuals in the
organisation will also be included in this report. As there will negative factors effecting
individuals that is why this report will include carious strategies that can help in coping up with
these negative factors affecting individuals.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation is very important for maintaining goal and objective behaviour of individual. It refers
to taking different initiative, actions and giving incentive to individuals because of which an
individual can stick to their goals and objective and thus able to achieve and attain them timely
and efficiently (Pritchard, 2016). To understand the motivation required for individuals Maslow
hierarchy is very recognisable as it will consider all the psychological aspects that affect
individuals motivation. Maslow hierarchy of individual is elaborated below.
Theory of Maslow's hierarchy
Theory of Maslow's hierarchy was presented by American philosopher and psychologist
Abraham H. Maslow. He was best know for his Psychological theory of self actualisation. As per
Abraham Maslow human motivation is grounded on five core needs and fulfilling all those needs
boost human motivation exceptionally well. These five needs are physiological needs, safety,
love and belongingness, self esteem, self fulfilment/self actualisation (Garland, 2018). As per
Maslow these needs form a pyramid type shape and one cannot move to higher level needs
before fulfilling there basic needs. Following are the components of Maslow's hierarchy theory:
 Physiological needs:- Physiological needs is a very basic human needs of any individual
which include air, water, food, shelter etc. Thus fulfilling all these basic needs are very
important for motivating employees and inducing them for working with productivity.
 Safety and security:- Safety needs of individual basically involves providing safety to
employees in terms of job security and medical security.