Positive Motivation and Its Impact on Individuals' Performance

This report investigates the impact of positive motivation on individuals, examining its effects in both college and workplace environments. The research employs a descriptive research design using questionnaires administered to students at DKIT. The findings reveal the importance of motivation, with a majority agreeing that it is crucial for performance. The report explores factors influencing motivation, such as lack of control, challenges, recognition, and competition, and highlights financial rewards, satisfaction, promotion, and security as key motivators. The study concludes that positive motivation enhances individual lifestyles and performance, leading to increased recognition and value, ultimately reducing stress. The report includes an analysis of gender, position, and satisfaction levels, along with a discussion of the value placed on individuals by their teachers and managers.

Running head: POSITIVE MOTIVATION AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS
Positive motivation and its impact on individuals
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Table of Contents
What is it about..........................................................................................................................2
Chosen Topic.............................................................................................................................2
General research questions.........................................................................................................2
Research Method........................................................................................................................3
Findings......................................................................................................................................3
Answer to Question No 1.......................................................................................................3
Answer to Question No 2.......................................................................................................4
Answer to Question No 3.......................................................................................................4
Answer to Question No 4.......................................................................................................5
Answer to Question No 5.......................................................................................................6
Answer to Question No 6.......................................................................................................7
Answer to Question No 7.......................................................................................................8
Answer to Question No 8.......................................................................................................9
Answer to Question No 9.....................................................................................................10
Conclusion............................................................................................................................11
Bibliography.........................................................................................................................12

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What is it about
This topic deals with understanding the positive impact of motivation in the minds of
individuals. This topic has been taken into consideration as positive motivation has a crucial
role to play in the development mindset of individuals and in that manner help them perform
better. This topic would explain how the individuals gain positive motivation and how it
enhances their life.
Chosen Topic
This paper has chosen the topic related to the positive motivation and its impact on
the individuals in order to have an idea about how positive impact can influence the
individuals in improving their lifestyle as well as enhance their daily life and reduce their
level of stress. This paper has even tried to discover the factors that can improve the
motivation of an individual.
General research questions
The questions that have been constructed are in accordance to find out the precise
answers from the respondents with respect to the topic that has been taken into consideration.
The questions that have been constructed comprises of the demographic questions that asks
about the questions related to the respondent. The next set of questions comprises of the
questions that are related to the topic that has been taken into consideration. All the questions
have been close ended questions and thereby have motivated the respondents to answer freely
as it helps in maintaining the secrecy of information. There have been a total of nine
questions that have been asked to the respondents and a total of 100 respondents have
answered the questions.

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Research Method
The research method refers to the process that has been undertaken in order to gather
the data and the process that has been taken in order to collect and analyse the data. This
paper has undertaken a descriptive research design as this process aids in explaining the
answers in a detailed manner. The paper has even taken help of the deductive approach as
this research has been an ongoing process and is not a new topic of research. The respondents
selected have been from the students of DKIT and questionnaires have been forwarded to the
students with the help of which the answers from the respondents have been answered. The
paper has collected the data with the help of random sampling.
Findings
This section of the paper tries to analyse the questions that have been answered by the
respondents. Each of the questions have been given as follows:
Answer to Question No 1
This question asks about the gender of the respondents who have been selected for
this research. It is seen that 52% of the respondents are female and the rest of 48%
respondents are male. This indicates that the respondents are female dominant.

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Figure 1: Gender
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Answer to Question No 2
The next question has looked to answer the current position of the participants. It has
been observed that 72% of the respondents are students, 23% of them are employees and the
rest of the respondents comprising of 5% are in the others section.
Figure 2: Position
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Answer to Question No 3
This question asks that whether motivation is important in the work and college of the
respondents and it is seen that 99 respondents have answered this question and 1 of them has
skipped the question. The results indicate that 81.82% of the respondents strongly agree to
this statement and on the other hand 18.18% agree to this statement. None of the respondents
have disagreed or strongly disagreed stating that motivation is significant in colleges and
workplaces.

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Figure 3: Importance of Motivation
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Answer to Question No 4
This question has tried to answer that whether individuals get motivated in their
college and workplaces and 70% of the respondents strongly agree to this question and 29%
of the participants agree to this statement. Only 1% of the respondent disagrees to this
question. This explains that motivation play a key role in the mind of the individuals in
colleges and work.

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Figure 4: Motivations of individuals
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Answer to Question No 5
This question tries to answer that whether lack motivation leads to stress in colleges
and workplaces. The results indicate that 60% of them agree to this statement and 25%
strongly agree to this question. On the other hand, handful of 13% disagrees to this question
and only 2% strongly disagree. This indicates that there is presence of stress when motivation
is inadequate.

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Figure 5: Effect of lack of motivation
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Answer to Question No 6
This question tries to gain knowledge about the factors that has an effect ability to
function in work and colleges and it has been observed that the respondents feel that 38% feel
that lack of control is the key factor. 29% feel that challenges play a crucial role. 19% of the
respondents feel that recognition is a big factor and 14% of the participants feel that
competition is a key factor. It can be concluded that lack of control is the main factor even
though the other factors have certain amount of importance as well.

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Figure 6: Ability to function
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Answer to Question No 7
This question has tried to find out the factor that will motivate the individuals to
function on the workplace and colleges and it is seen that 38% feel that financial rewards
motivate the individuals. 26% feel satisfaction is the key factor for motivation. 19% of the
respondents feel promotion and grades are another factor as well and 17% of them feels
future security is another factor.

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Figure 7: Factors
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Answer to Question No 8
This question answers the level of satisfaction one is with their position and it is seen
that 52% are somewhat satisfied. 20% are very satisfied, 15% are very dissatisfied and the
rest of 13% are dissatisfied. This explains that most of the participants are kind of satisfied
with their position.

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Figure 8: Satisfaction
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Answer to Question No 9
This question looks to answer that whether the teacher or the manager values the
respondents and it has been observed that 75% say yes that their teachers and managers value
them and 25% say no and say that they are not valued by their managers and teachers.

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Figure 9: Values
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Conclusion
The end result of the paper explains that motivation is key factor that is helpful in the
positive development of the individuals that reduces their stress in the workplace and colleges
and has even explained that there are various factors that have an influence on positive
motivation. Therefore, positive motivation enhances the lifestyle of the individuals and in that
manner enhances their level performance that leads to recognition and rise in value in the
eyes of the managers and teachers.