Analyzing Leadership's Impact on Employee Motivation in Australia

This essay examines the critical role of motivation within the organizational behavior environment of Australia, highlighting the impact of leadership on employee engagement. The paper argues that effective leadership is essential for fostering employee motivation, while ineffective leadership leads to demotivation and decreased organizational performance. The literature review explores various theories of motivation, including Herzberg's two-factor theory, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and goal-setting theory, to understand the factors that influence employee behavior and performance. The essay emphasizes the importance of leaders creating environments that encourage employee participation, provide opportunities for skill development, and offer fair compensation. Furthermore, the analysis delves into the consequences of poor leadership, such as mistreatment and lack of communication, which can result in conflicts and decreased productivity. The conclusion reinforces the significance of effective leadership in motivating employees to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review........................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The primary purpose of the paper is to focus on the issue related to the topic ‘motivation’ in the
organizational behavior environment of Australia. Motivation is crucial for every organization to
get positive outcomes in organizational behavior. It can be referred to the process that helps in
moving a person towards a goal. The primary issue within motivation is the lack of motivation
among the employees due to ineffective leadership which can be seen in the Australian OB
environment. Lack of motivation gives a negative impact on organizational behavior.
Thesis statement: “Effective Leadership is important for the motivation of employees in the
workplace and ineffective leadership cause lack of motivation among the employees.”
Literature Review
Motivation is a critical factor in organizational behavior. It mainly denotes to the direction,
persistence, intensity, and initiation of the behavior of individuals. The motivation of employees
is essential for every organization. Motivation leads an employee to perform all his or her
activities in the workplace. It also accomplishes the various goals of the employees. Leadership
is the major issue that causes a lack of motivation among the employees, and this issue is being
faced by the organizations of Australia in the environment of organizational behavior (Bassous,
2015). The leaders impose too much leadership on the employees that are the reason for
occurring motivational issues in the organization. Ineffective leadership or mistreatment of
employees cause a lack of motivation and thus, results in the ineffectiveness of the organization
(Choi, Kim & Kang, 2017). Motivation help in increasing the willingness of the employees to
work and achieve the desired goal.

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In the dynamic environment, a leader is responsible for creating an environment where the
workers are encouraged to take decisions in their work which may lead to increase motivation
level of employees and thus, improve the performance of the organization. Leaders play an
essential role in motivating employees to fulfill the objectives of the organization effectively
(Deschamps, Rinfret, Lagacé & Privé, 2016). If the employees are mistreated by the leaders, then
it causes a lack of motivation among them which results in decreasing the performance of the
organization. Motivation is a term that inspires an individual to work self-intentionally.
The motivation of employees in the organization is an important area that needs to be focused on
organizational behavior. It has been analyzed that Frederick Hertzberg expressed a theory of
motivation in finding out the aspects that motivated the employees at the workplace. The first
factor is known as hygiene factors which include the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of employees
at the workplace. Another factor is the motivator factor which shows employees are highly
motivated. The leader of the organization needs to provide effective leadership to the employees
so that the employees are motivated to do their work. Maslow’s theory of motivation is the well-
known theory of motivation and is significant to the motivation of the workplace (Deci, Olafsen
& Ryan, 2017). It expresses the five hierarchy of needs such as physiological needs, safety
needs, and social needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs. Hence, the leaders of the
company require to apply the theory of Maslow to motivate the workers in doing their work.
When the leaders of the organization do not allow the employees to work freely, the workers are
highly de-motivated and which cause less productivity of the organization as well as employees
(De Baerdemaeker & Bruggeman, 2015). The employees will be able to work efficiently or
inspired when the leaders adopt democratic leadership. There are several theories of motivation
to explain the works of motivation. Among all the theories of motivation, the basic needs model

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is the most popular theory of motivation as it is based on the needs of the human. The theory
highlights certain factors that motivate a person. All human beings have needs, and they want
that to be satisfied. One is the primary needs like water, sleep, and food that deal with the factors
related to the physical behavior. Another is the secondary needs that differ by individual or
culture. It is difficult to interpret the secondary needs as they are highlighted in various ways.
These needs are responsible for the behavior of an employee or leader in an organization.
Some of the factors that affect the performance of employees in the organization are: Managerial
standards is one of the factors that cause motivating as well as de-motivating of employees (Pink,
2019). The managers should not expect more from a worker than they are recruited for because
it could result in reducing the performance of employees. They require to keep their expectations
in line with the tasks allocated to employees. Motivation is another factor that plays a vital role
in the performance of employees. There should be effective motivation in the workplace that
increases the productivity of workers. The managers or leaders of an organization should take
feedback from the employees regularly. The leaders should not show their attitude or abuse the
workers within the workplace. Employees can be motivated by increasing participation in
various tasks. Effective leadership helps in improving productivity as well as motivated the
employees to fulfill their needs or goals (Gerhart & Fang, 2015).
The organization requires to develop proper communication between the leader and employees
to improve the performance of workers. An adequate plan of organizational behavior can be
taken by the organization to overcome the issues faced by the company. It requires to receive
regular feedback which helps in motivating the employees and thus, enhance the better
performance of the firm. Motivated employees can further assist in achieving the objectives of
the organization effectively. Lack of motivation and improper leadership cause conflicts and

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decrease organizational behavior in the organization (Wolf, Perhats, Delao & Clark, 2017).
Moreover, the employees feel free to participate in the process of decision making when the
leaders treat them well and communicate with them properly regularly.
The term ‘organizational behavior' is the study of the behavior of a human in the environment of
the company (Manika, Wells, Gregory-Smith & Gentry, 2015). A theory has been introduced by
McGregor that is Theory X and Theory Y. These theories assume that the manager controls the
behavior towards the employees and understands the capability of the staffs which helps in
creating more effective workplace. Motivation is an essential feature of the theory of
organizational behavior (|Kanfer & Chen, 2016). The issue that is being faced by the
organization today needs to be solved by motivating the employees. The leader should be active
and well-mannered towards their team members.
A leader should know the reason of causing demotivation among employees. If the workers are
continuously de-motivated, then the organization needs to make changes in the workplace. The
leader of the employees should make sure that the staffs will get meaningful work to do and face
new challenges regularly. The employees should be motivated in the organization by taking
several ways such as by offering opportunities to learn new skills, paying a fair salary to them,
setting clear goals, acknowledging the good work, and providing a pleasant environment at the
workplace. The motivation of employees helps in encouraging hard work and experimentation
which benefit both employer and employee (Singh, 2016). The success of the organization
entirely depends on the motivation of employees as it enhances the productivity of the
organization.
The manager of the organization who is acting as a leader needs to use an appropriate leadership
style to control the operational environment. If he does so, then the employees will be passionate

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to do the work and motivate themselves to accomplish the goals of the firm. One of the theories
of motivation is goal theory which assumes that the goal of people plays a vital part in the
determination of behavior. When a person set specific goals, the performance, as well as
motivation, becomes high. The theory has implications that one needs to identify specific goals
at the workplace to maintain motivation among workers and complete feedback need to be taken
to keep high performance. The goals or objectives could be determined both by the manager or
the employees as per the goal theory of motivation.
The high motivation gives a positive impact on the performance of employees but de-motivation
cause low satisfaction of work (Osabiya, 2015). The manager should provide an opportunity to
the workers to contribute their ideas to work and make an effort to improve the communication
system. The workers require to be promoted when needed as it ensures better performance of
staffs at work. The leader of the staff members should give effective leadership and decently
treat the members to motivate them to do the task to achieve the goals of the firm.
Conclusion
It is concluded that the lack of motivation due to ineffective leadership is the main issue faced by
the organization in the OB environment in Australia. The motivation is the primary factor to be
considered in the workplace so that the employees are motivated to perform their specific duties
and accomplish the desired goals. Hertzberg theory, McGregor theory of X and Y and Maslow’s
theory of motivation are used to motivate the employees. The goal theory is essential in the
determination of human behavior within the organization. A leader should be effective towards
the staff members and motivate them regularly by adopting various methods.

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