Understanding Motivation and Factors Influencing Employee Work

BSc (Hons) 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
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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
Main objective of this report is to better understand the concept of motivation and
various factors which assist in improving the efficiency and experience of their
employees. It play an essential role in encouraging and developing new talents by
providing them potential job offers. There are various type of factors are available which
are contribute in the work of workers such as basic pay, additional benefits, organisation
culture or work climate and so on (Agnihotri and Tsui, 2021). All these factors will create
a favorable impact on the efficiency and productivity of workers. It will also provide
various options to employees to boost their knowledge and experience. This report is
based on an analysis by John, who want to analysis that which factor will motivate
employee most to do work with their full efficiency. This report will include the concept of
motivation, Maslow’s Hierarchy theory & extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Other than this
it include various motivational factors and positive & negative factors which employee’s
experience.
What does Motivation Mean?
It refers to a process that help an organisation in initiate’s guides and maintains
goal-oriented behavior in their employees (Epler, 2021). It will include various biological,
emotional, social and cognitive forces which assist in activate the behavior. This word will
define certain requirements and desires of employees working in an organisation. By
fulfilling these requirements an organisation is able to motivate their employees towards
achievement of organisation goal. There are mainly two type of motivation which are
discussed below:
Extrinsic motivations- It refers to those type of motivational factor which are arise
from outside of the individual. This will often involve rewards such as money, social
recognition and trophies.
Intrinsic motivation- It refers to those motivational factor which are arises within
the individual. For example- organizing a difficult crossword puzzle mainly for the
personal gratification of solving a problem.
Maslow’s Motivational theory- This theory of motivation is based on five important
needs of a human being which motivate a person most. Which are discussed below:
 Physiological needs- This factor will define the biological requirements of human
survival such as food, cloth and shelter (Goltl and et. al. 2019).
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