BSc Business Management: BMP3004 World of Work - Motivation Report

This report, submitted for the BSc (Hons) Business Management course, delves into the critical aspects of employee motivation within the context of the 'World of Work.' It begins by defining motivation and exploring various motivational theories, including Maslow's hierarchy, intrinsic, and extrinsic motivation. The report then examines factors that motivate employees, such as salary, promotion, and a positive work environment, while also acknowledging the negative influences like stress and cultural differences. Furthermore, it provides strategies to cope with these negative aspects, emphasizing motivation strategies, culture creation, and reward management. The report concludes by highlighting the importance of understanding and managing people in the workplace to achieve organizational goals and enhance performance. The analysis uses Tesco as a case study to illustrate the practical application of these concepts.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work
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Introduction
The working of people is culture of organization that should be adopt by individual for the
purpose of managing and running a business. In each organization managing people is important
aspects which is used by business concern for running their business and attaining the competitive
advantage (Mitchell, Schuster and Jin, 2020). The present report is based on why people work and
different motivating factors that are used to influence the people and managing the all functions
and activities. This report also highlights on positive and negative factors that used to performing
specific roles.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation is the process of initiates, guiding, and maintaining the goals by getting7
the work done from all employees who works at the workplace. This is important for man
individual to have proper understanding and knowledge about how their employees will be
happy and how they can work in an organization. When number of employees works in
organization it is responsibility of managers to motivate, inspire and satisfy their employees
so they can work effectively and completes the goals. This involves biological, social,
cognitive, and emotional forces which are important to run a business and developing the
activities. There are different types of motivation such Maslow’s hierarchy, extrinsic, and
intrinsic. The Maslow theory is categorized in to psychological, safety, love and belongings,
self-actualization. In psychological management fill the basic needs of their employees such
as air, food, water, sleep. The employees get personal security, employment, and resources by
working under safety needs. The employees get friendship, intimacy, and sense of connection
under love and belonging needs. In Esteem needs employees is expected to get self esteem,
respect, status, and recognition that make happy. In self-actualization employees desire to
become the most while working which motivate them to work more effectively (Backfisch
and et.al., 2020).
Intrinsic motivation can be explained as process of doing an activity for inherent
satisfaction instead of some separable consequences. This fills the physical and social needs of
their employees who works at the workplace which can help to develop the organizational
performance. The another is extrinsic motivation that relates to reward driven behavior. In this,
management should be provide the rewards or punishment to their staff that increase the
motivation and develop the business activities.
The various factors which motivate employees to work
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Motivation is the important factor which should be use by organization for getting the
work done and managing all activities. The employer should have knowledge and skills that
states how their staff will be motivate and would work for long period. In the business
environment there are different factors which can be used by company to motivate their staff
such as:
Salary:
This can be explained as main factor for which peoples goes to work for earning money.
To live and filling the needs of employees, salary should be provided to all staff which an help to
make happy and satisfied the people. The employees who wants to get salary they needs to work
other places which can provide the money and used to live their daily life. This relates to extrinsic
motivation and safety needs under Maslow theory that can help to influence the employees and
complete the work and managing the all functions effectively. For example, management of Tesco
understand needs of their staff and give them salary which can help to make feel good and
increase productivity (Kim and Lawrie, 2019).
Promotion:
This is another factor which influence employees and getting the work done by
promoting the employees who works well and give their contribution to achieve the goals.
This means there is a risk of losing a organization’s best employees if they are not seen to be
doing good job and promoted through the company. This is management responsibility to
evaluate the employees performance and give them promotion if they work well and good.
The management of Tesco organization should be focus on employees performance and give
them promotion which can help to develop the organizational productivity and performance.
This encompasses with Taylor scientific theory that give reward and promotion while doing
good working. This can help to increase the organizational performance (Khan, Johnston and
Ophoff, 2019).
Work Environment:
This factor is existing surround the environment that states physically and non-physically
aspects that has impact on employee motivation. If there is good working environment then
employees feel good to work and comfortable which can help to increase the motivation level and
develop the business performance. In relation to Tesco, Herzberg theory is used by management
which can help to increase the organizational performance and productivity effectively. The
management create a good working environment and motivate the employees by satisfying with
working (Lund and et.al.,2019).
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The positive factors employees experience as a result of their job
roles
Employment is the important factor that should be provided by employer to employees for
getting the work done and managing the higher performance. This is the way of gaining resources
and capital for good quality of life and meeting with organizational needs which can help to
increase the business performance. Working also offers an opportunity for personal and
professional development that can be considered as positive factor which used to provide the
higher satisfaction and managing all functions effectively. The management of Tesco, use the
Maslow theory, and Herzberg theory to motivate the employees and complete the work on time
which can help to developing the organizational activities and performance by satisfying their
customers and managing the activities. Moreover, training and development is another factor
which can be used by employer to motivate their staff as it increase the confidence level and
completing the work on specified time period. This helps to attain the business goals and
objectives which are decided by management and supports to complete the task.
Employment is another factor that create a positive response and support employees to
perform their job roles effectively. This factor gives the employees a sense of identify, social
outlook, good behavior and proper arrangement of all functions which can help to motivate staff
and getting the work done effectively (Fuller and Meiners, 2020).
The negative factors employees experience as a result of their job
roles
In an organization it can be seen that there are different factors relates to negativity and
affected the organizational performance. Such as Stress is the factor that occurs between
employees who work at the organization and employees can not perform their roles effectively.
The another factor is different culture as number of employees works in organization who belongs
to different culture and expectation that create the challenges for organization to attain their goals
and objectives. The employees started to feel stress and negative that affected the organizational
performance and their workings. Some negative aspects that employees face such as excessive
demand made by organization, lack of training, cost cutting, conflicts and work stress between
employees, and improper communication that all are related to employees experience and affected
the organizational productivity (Dias and et.al., 2020).
Strategies to cope with negative factors employees experience as a
result of their job roles
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As motivation is important expectation that expects by employees entire working as it
motivate them to work good and increase the business performance. The management should
have good strategy and planning which can be used to cope up with negative factors and
helps to perform the job roles specifically (Stuchtey, Vincent, Merkl, Bucher and Haugen,
2020). The management of Tesco and other organization should be follow the motivation
strategy, culture creation, training and development, reward management, performance
appraisal, problem solving, and provide immediate feedback strategy which can be used by
employer to fill the needs of their employees and complete the work on time that can help
employees to attain personal as well as professional goals. The management should be
communicate with all employees and provide them right suggestion which can help to
maintaining higher performance and productivity at the workplace.
Conclusion
From the report it can be concluded that motivation is the motivation encompasses
through influence, attracts and managing the people at the workplace which can help to
complete the work on time and attaining the higher performance. In organization people
works by understanding goals and giving their contribution in each function and activity
which can help to complete the work and accomplish the organizational goals. Maslow theory
of motivation is used to fill basis, safety, esteem, and self-actualization needs that can help to
managing all activities and developing the business.
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