Understanding why people work

Bsc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
What does Motivation Mean?................................................................................................3
The various factors which motivates employees to work......................................................4
The positive factors employees experience as a result of job roles........................................4
The negative factors employees experience as a result of job roles ......................................5
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a result of their job roles 5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
People work in an organisation in order to gain money and recognition. In an
organisation, manager motivates their employees to work in order accomplish the task and goals.
Motivating employees is considered as the most challenging for job for a manager. IOM
Electronics Ltd is taken as base company. It is a UK based company which deals in electronic
goods and services and working with 200 employees. In context to IOM Electronics, this report
cover about motivation theory which helps managers in motivating and inspire its employees and
factors that help them to do the work and achieve the organisational goal. It also covers the
positive and negative factors that employees experiences in job role and the strategies to cope
with negative factors and they are mentioned below-
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation is considered to be a key element in an organization. Mangers motivate their
employees for getting work as achieve the goals ad objectives of the organization (Bessant,
Farthing and Watts, 2017). It refers to as a force which is applied by the manager to their
employees in maintaining the competition. It includes biological, emotional, social and cognitive
forces that uses by manager to motivate its employees. Manager uses both intrinsic and extrinsic
motivation for employees. Intrinsic motivation is used inside the organization where employees
perform activities in the organization for their satisfaction. The manager motivate its employees
for performing activities for their personal rewards. There are different types of motivation
theory such as drive theory, instinct theory and humanistic theory which is also known as
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. Intrinsic motivation has a direct relationship with Maslow's
Hierarchy theory which includes 5 needs starting from to satisfying the basic psychological
needs, safety needs, belongingness needs, esteem needs to self-actualization needs where the
person work for satisfying the potential growth and identifying the purpose of its life. Extrinsic
motivation are those which focus on activities which are performed outside the organization. The
manager motivate its employees get external rewards for performing activities in the
organization (Blee, 2017)(Buheji, 2018). Goals of extrinsic motivation is to not satisfy the basic
needs but it involves gains such as fame, money, power and many more.