UGB164 - Motivation to Work and Meaning: Managing and Leading People

This essay addresses the critical role of motivation in the workplace, emphasizing its importance for both employees and managers. It highlights the duty of managers to motivate their teams, enhancing internal feelings of value and purpose. The essay introduces Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a motivational theory, outlining the five stages—psychological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization—that managers should consider to fulfill the basic needs of workers and boost productivity, sales, and goal accomplishment. Ultimately, the essay underscores the necessity for managers to prioritize motivational levels and to utilize theories like Maslow's to achieve organizational objectives.

Motivation to work and
meaning of work
• Maslow hierarchy of needs:
There are five stages that should
be considered by the managers
to motivate employees and to
fulfill the basic needs of the
workers. The five stages that
should be considered are:
Psychological stage, safety
needs, love and belongingness
needs, esteem needs and self
actualization needs (Healy,
2016).
IntroductionMotivation is one of the essential
factor that should be present in the
employees. It is the duty managers
to lead and inform the managers by
motivating them (Wlodkowski and
Ginsberg, 2017). Motivation is the
considered as the internal feelings
that is importnat to be enhnaced by
the higher authoritY (Peters, 2015).
Maslow hierarchy of
needs motivational
theory
References
Peters, R.S., 2015. The concept of motivation. Routledge.
Wlodkowski, R.J. and Ginsberg, M.B., 2017. Enhancing adult motivation to learn: A comprehensive guide for teaching all adults.
John Wiley & Sons.
Ryan, R.M. and Deci, E.L., 2017. Self-determination theory: Basic psychological needs in motivation, development, and wellness.
Guilford Publications.
Healy, K., 2016. A Theory of Human Motivation by Abraham H. Maslow (1942). The British Journal of Psychiatry, 208(4), pp.313-
313.
Motivation should be
considered by the managers as
it helps in boosting
•Productivity
•Sales
•Helps in accomplishing goals
(Ryan and Deci, 2017).
Conclusion
It can be concluded that managers).
should emphasize on boosting the
motivational level as it can assist in
accomplishing set goals and
objectives. It is also necessary for
the managers to consider Maslow
hierarchy of needs theories as it
satisfies the needs of the workers.

References
• Peters, R.S., 2015. The concept of motivation.
Routledge.
• Wlodkowski, R.J. and Ginsberg, M.B.,
2017. Enhancing adult motivation to learn: A
comprehensive guide for teaching all adults.
John Wiley & Sons.
• Ryan, R.M. and Deci, E.L., 2017. Self-
determination theory: Basic psychological needs
in motivation, development, and wellness.
Guilford Publications.
• Healy, K., 2016. A Theory of Human Motivation
by Abraham H. Maslow (1942). The British
Journal of Psychiatry, 208(4), pp.313-313.