Analyzing Motivation and Performance in Organizational Behavior

This essay explores the application of organizational behavior theories, particularly focusing on motivation and its impact on employee performance. It analyzes various motivational theories, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, equity theory, and cognitive theory, to understand how they influ...Read More

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behavior
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Introduction
The essay helps in analyzing the different kind of organizational theories that will be
applied in the setting of the organization in an effective manner. The motivational theories have
to be analyzed in the next sections, as this will help in improving the problems in the
organizations. The role of the managers is essential to be analyzed in such a way that this will
provide motivation to the employees. The main dissimilarities will be identified in the
performance management system, as this will help in analyzing the issues in providing
motivation to the individuals.
The aim and rationale of the essay is to understand the diverse kind of potential issues
that can be faced by different organizations. The motivational theories and factors have to be
analyzed that helps in understanding the administrative interventions. The diverse kind of steps
that has to be taken by the officials has to be analyzed to motivate the employees and to make the
production effective in nature.
The structure of the essay includes assessment of the various theories of motivation that
will be adopted by organizations to improve productivity of the organization. The various
concepts and theories on motivation have to be analyzed in an effectual manner, as this will help
in enhancement of presentation of employees.
Influence of motivational concepts and theories on performance of employees
In the competitive scenario, there are different kinds of organizations that are competitive
in nature. The organizations face different challenges in the competitive era, as there is huge
competition in the entire market. The diverse factors has to be analyzed as that will help the
officials in the organizations to understand the issues faced by employees. The different

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approaches on motivation have to be applied by companies in order to keep a check on the
performance of employees (Guss, Burger and Dorner 2017). The problems are identified by the
managers in such a manner that this helps them in increasing the entire productivity of the
organization. The main issue in the different organizations is related to the performance of
employees, as they are not performing in an effectual manner (Jayaweera 2015). It has been
noticed that there are different organizations that do not provide motivation to the employees and
this affects the performance of the employees. However, on the other hand there are
organizations that provide both monetary and non-monetary motivations as this will help in
improving performance and increase creativity (Jonas 2016).
According to Ganta (2014), there are different kind of incentive and compensation
programs and bonuses that helped the employees in performing in an effectual manner in the
organization. On the other hand Burrai, Font and Cochrane (2015) commented that human
resource management plays an essential role in motivating individuals by providing them
different motivational factors that will help the officials in understanding the requirements of
employees.
Furthermore, Baumeister (2016) commented that there are different employees in
companies who are self-motivated and self-directed in nature. These employees are defined as
the theory Y employees who help the organizations in performing tasks and increase
productivity. The human resource management department provides training and developmental
activities to improve their productivity. However, on the other hand, Deci and Ryan (2014)
stated that the different non-monetary and non-monetary benefits would help the employees in
motivating the employees in an effective manner (Lazaroiu 2015).

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There are different kinds of theories that have to be implemented by the organizations, as
this will help to understand the requirements of the employees. Such motivational theories will
help in improving the overall presentation of the company along with increasing the revenues
(Gerhart and Fang 2015). Different companies can use the Maslow’s hierarchy theory of
motivation as this helps in focusing on requirements of the different employees. The different
requirements are as follows:
The physiological needs are the ones wherein the basic requirements of the employees
are taken care in an effective manner. The food, shelter and water are the general requirements
that are required for understanding and meeting demands of the employees. Similarly, the social
needs have to be take care in an effectual manner as this helps in providing security and
insurance to the employees. The different needs and requirements has to be analyzed in an
effectual manner as this helped the organizations to provide employees to meet the different
expectations of the organization and perform tasks accordingly.
The self-esteem needs include the acknowledgement that is required at workplace along
with different kind of responsibilities. Lastly, the security and self-actualization needs are
essential in nature as this includes providing training to the employees and this helps in growth
of employees. The diversity is maintained wherein this helps in understanding the requirements
of employees in an effectual method. As per the respective theory, the requirements have to be
analyzed in an effective manner as this helps in generating huge efficiency of the employees.
The Maslow’s hierarchy theory has to be analyzed that this helps the employees along
with organizations to understand the issues faced by employees and solve them to generate
operational effectiveness. The other theory is the equity theory that can be applied by the

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different companies in the society as this helps the company in motivating employees as per their
performance. The equity theory helps in creating different appreciations in such a manner that
increases the operational efficiency and effectiveness. This particular theory is fair in nature as
this helps them in adjusting the input of the employees in order to reach their perceived equity.
The cognitive theory of motivation can be applied by different organizations as this helps
the organizations to reduce the ineffectiveness in the operational activities. The extrinsic and
intrinsic motivational factors has to be considered in the different kind of organizations as this
helps them in providing motivational factors in an different manner. There are employees in the
organizations that are self-motivated and self-directed as they perform their tasks effectively to
gain competitive advantage. From the theories, it can be analyzed that operational effectiveness
is essential in nature as this helps the company in performing their activities in an effectual
manner (Afsar, Badir and Kiani 2016).
The employees who are motivated in an intrinsic manner are the theory Y approach
employees; on the other hand, there are employees who need motivation from the officials, as
they are theory X approach employees. These kinds of employees are the ones who do not feel
like performing their tasks in an effective manner. The achievement, responsibility and
competence are essential in nature as this helps the entire organization to perform and generate
revenues for the company.
Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded that the different motivational factors play an important
role in the different organizations in order to increase the productivity. The motivational factors
help the employees in gaining confidence and provide employees to perform their tasks in an

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effective manner. The different motivational theories such as Maslow’s hierarchy theory and
cognitive theory helped the company and employees to understand and meet the requirements in
an effectual manner. It has been seen that achievement and competence is essential in nature as
this helps to provide employees to meet the different requirements in an effective manner.
Lastly, it has been seen that the equity theory is essential and it helped in generating
fairness among the different individuals. The competence of the employees can be gained in an
effectual manner as this helped the different organizations to understand the effectiveness in the
performance of the employees.

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