Understanding Why People Work

Understanding why
people work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Factors which motivate employees to work...........................................................................3
Positive and negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles.................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Work plays very important role in persons life, work is not always related to money it provide
Independence and freedom in life. Work create a balance in life and also give some purpose in
life. People do work because of many reasons and every individual has different reason to do
work (Alonso and Kohen, 2022) . Money is always the one of the biggest reason of why people
work but apart from money their are also many reasons of people doing work like work provide
social recognition to the individual, while working individual get chance to show its skills and
knowledge and may also enhance its skills and talent at work place, work provide a sense of
satisfaction and respect to the individual and along with all above reasons work also provide
security for the future. Above mentioned are the reasons why people do work. This report
includes the various factors which motivate employees at work and positive and negative factors
employees experience as a result of their job roles.
Factors which motivate employees to work.
Salary- It is the biggest factor which motivate employees to do work. When employees
receiving the regular money in form of salary than employees feel motivated because through
that salary employee is able to fulfil its basic needs (Arney, 2022) . To keep employee motivated
their should be regular increment in the salary because at a point of time employee may feel
dissatisfied with the regular salary and only with some amount of increment in salary employee
again feel motivated towards the work.
Non-monetary incentives- Apart from money non financial factors can also motivate
employees to do work. In an organisation some employees are their which are not feel motivated
by money but apart from money other factors motivate them at work place like appreciation at
work place, when manager recognise their work in front of everyone, opportunity to get higher
position etc.
Relationship with colleagues- Employees spend a large part of a day in office so
relationship of employees with each other define their motivation level. If an employee have a
good relationship with its colleagues than its attitude towards work is positive and work
environment of office is also satisfactory. Good relationship build strong and cooperative team
which help each other to complete the tasks. To maintain this positive environment in
organisation and keep employees motivated towards the work company organise many activities