Report on Employee Motivation: Factors & Positive/Negative Experiences

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors that motivate employees in the workplace, examining both positive and negative influences on their job roles. It highlights the significance of a positive organizational culture, regular feedback, training and development opportunities, and career advancement prospects in fostering employee motivation. The report also delves into the positive experiences that enhance employee engagement, such as health and safety measures, work flexibility, cooperative work environments, effective leadership, learning opportunities, and open communication channels. Conversely, it addresses negative factors like heavy workloads, conflicts, job-related stress, task-related hassles, and interruptions that can hinder employee performance and overall job satisfaction. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of understanding these dynamics to create a supportive and motivating work environment.

UNDERSTANDING WHY
PEOPLE WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
1.Various factors which motivate employees to work.............................................................................3
2. Analyzing the positive and negative factors which employees experience while performing their job
role in workplace.....................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Working is very important for the survival in life. It aids in making money which gives
life a meaningful way of living. Working helps in building the self-confidence and aims for
making an independent person by supporting the living. Work is very important in life as it aids
in getting various experiences, identity, and gives better control over living. Various individual
work in life as for developing skills, gaining knowledgeable abilities, for better understanding
the world which benefits an individual activity in future growth. This report will provide details
relating to the employee’s attitudes towards working by concerning various factors which
motivates employees for working. Lastly, the positive and negative factors which employee’s
experiences while performing their concerned job roles.
MAIN BODY
Motivating is being regarded as an internal factor which motivates an employee for
working hard and performing job roles. This guides employees for working better and with
increased enthusiasm for performing the overall roles and responsibilities. Motiving employees
at workplace also increases satisfying workforce and productivity. These forces are generally
regarded as the state of mind which molds employee’s attitudes towards work, also helps in
better work in management and provide better surroundings. These factors can be positive as
well as negative which will impact the employee’s behavior while performing their role and
responsibilities in organizations. Some of the factors are negative which hinders the employee’s
performance, these negative attitudes concerned with not performing assigned work on time,
coming late and lazy attitude will result in negative working environment for the workplace.
1.Various factors which motivate employees to work
Nowadays, employees are more concern about what they are getting against their efforts
and contribution. So, let’s take a closer look at some of the key factors which encourage them to
work effectively.
Working in a positive organizational culture
Organizational culture plays a vital role in motivating employee and tell them to work
effectively to achieve goals. If the company’s culture is positive, safe and healthy then employee

is attracted towards it and it’s what makes the talent want to stay with the firm for the long term
(Saraswathi, 2011). So, improving culture in the firm has certainly become more challenging for
top level management team. The firm needs to focus on wellbeing of employees, equality,
diversity and compassion.
Regular and constructive feedback
It is important to provide regular feedback to employee for their performance, so that
they can make necessary changes if required. When the employees being recognized for their
hard work and efforts they are putting to complete task, they feel valued and respected. This
eventually create self-confidence and motivation among them. So, leaders and managers must
acknowledge and provide equal benefits to them against their contributions, with the help of their
management skills and leadership skills.
Training and development
In today’s business environment, employees need proper training and development
programs, so that they can feel that they matter to the business (RAHAMAN and et.al., 2020).
This will improve the skills, knowledge and experience of employees so that they can achieve
success in the competitive market. for example- Amazon leaders and human resources team
working on providing training and development programs, so employee will better appreciate
themselves and be more active and motivated by, well considered plan of training for them.
Benefits and compensations
Providing incentives, salary, wages, benefits, rewards, compensations, health insurance,
job security, work flexibility, holidays also helpful for the company to motivate employees. so
that they can work hard towards their goals.
Promotion/ career advancement opportunities
Providing benefits like training, incentives, compensation is not just enough to enrol and
motivate employees. What’s even more encouraging for most of the professional leaders is being
shown that there are different ways for employees to be motivated and achieve success.
promotion and career progression is the best option to motivate employees, it is important for
leaders to make time to sit with their staff to have this important conversation. It is essential for

them to gather important feedback from staff and for this, leaders have to be open and honest
with their staff about career ambitions (Factors that motivate employees, 2021). Employees
should get what they deserve, promoting them for their efforts and contributions towards
company’s goals is the effective step must be taken by firm.
So, it is essential for company to consider these factors and implement it effectively for
their business as well as employee’s performance and productivity. By adopting these factors,
company will have the best possible chance of building a truly motivated culture that will be
helpful to achieve long term goals.
2. Analyzing the positive and negative factors which employees experience while performing
their job role in workplace
The employee experience is being considered as the perceptions and various practices
which is being faced in the company while preforming the job roles by the employees. The
experience of employees will impact the entire processes and working style relating to
businesses the positive experiences while courage employees for working efficiently and
effectively. The positive factors being experienced by employees while performing their roles
and responsibilities in the workplace. These forces mainly include:
Importance for health and safety
When employees are provided with the safety and security of health by the company
creates working environment practices (Petitta and et.al., 2021). The company provided various
benefits relating to the heath includes the heal insurance, various monetary and non-monetary
incentives, also the additional payoffs and safety benefits to family will provide positive working
experience.
Flexibility in working environment
When a company provides the flexible working conditions and working environment it
helps in maintain the balance life. Also aids maintains workload in balance according to the
desired schedules.
Cooperating workforce and head officials

For working in the dynamic environment the cooperative peer personnel’s also the head
officials give positive experience and working environment which aids in supporting for various
difficult tasks.
Great leaders
Leaders in the company generally allocate various tasks and monitors and controls
employees with their performance for working efficiently and effectively (Sprigg and et.al.,
2019). This will help in creating positive experience when employees are regularly given
feedback for correcting mistakes for the task.
Learning opportunities for growth and development
Various opportunities mainly for earning helps employees in building and developing various
skills, and abilities to perform task and responsibilities in better way (Walsh and et.al., 2018).
These learning opportunities will help in growing future career and aids in exploring great
opportunities for development.
Belongingness
Belongingness in the workplace will encourage the employees for better work in the assigned
role. also it engages them for being committed towards the work which is being assigned.
Encouragement and empowerment
This is being regarded as the positive encourage for working in the job, also empowering the
employees to work better, will builds trust between the employees and the managers and
encourages personnel’s to perform various tasks which is being assigned.
Open channels of communication
The workplace in which employees are given various opportunities to give suggestions
for taking various decisions will encourage the environment of open communication. This helps
an employee’s personnel’s to maintain the positive environment and also assist in
communicating openly with the head officials, managers and leaders (Gorgenyi-Hegyes, Nathan

and Fekete-Farkas, 2021). the effective communication encourages employees for being valued
with their opinions motivates them for working efficiently for the desired role.
Provides Satisfaction
The sense of satisfaction and fulfillment for performing the desired role given by the
management the company encourages employees to regular set the goals and make plans
accordingly in order to achieve them
There are some negative factors being experienced by employees at workplace while
performing their roles in the organization includes:
Lack of productivity
The heavy workload will affect the employee’s morale and it will lower the productivity
for working in the company. This will give negative experience for working in the organization.
With the increased workload will resist employees to work and will diminish the productivity of
employees.
Workload
Heavy workload on employees will resist them for working in the company for the
desired role (He, Yand et.al., 2021). this will generally lead towards the absenteeism of
employees towards work.
Conflict
Conflicts with various peers and mangers will arise due to disagreement on the certain
situation. This will result in negative behaviors and bad fluctuations for working in the company.
Stress related to job

The stress related to workplace mainly for the salary, compensation, appraisal, will give
negative effects and experience which demotivates e employees for working efficiently. This
will create hurdles in performing the desired role and responsibilities.
Hassel in task
These are the difficulties related to task which arise daily at the workplace. These hurdles
the working practices and give negative experience to employees while performing the desired
role.
Failures and interruptions
These are generally being regarded as the distractions and various interruptions while
performing the desired role and challenging role will impact negatively to employees for
working in the company.
CONCLUSION
Form this report it can be concluded that working is very essential for living a happy life.
Employees experience various positive and negative factors while performing their roles in the
company. There are various factors which motivates employees while performing their roles in
the company it includes positive culture, regular feedback, training and development, portions
and appraisals. The positive factors will engage in better working and provide positive
experience for the employees. Whereas the negative factors will give negative and mood
fluctuations for the employees while performing their roles in the organization.

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