Introducing Modern Workplace: Motivation and Perception Analysis

This report delves into the critical concepts of motivation and perception within the modern workplace, highlighting their significant impact on employee behavior and organizational outcomes. The introduction establishes the importance of these psychological elements in decision-making and performance. The main body explores the two key components: motivation, encompassing content and process theories, and perception, including the five senses and their influence on individual interpretation. The report emphasizes the importance of motivation for improving employee performance, changing negative attitudes, reducing turnover and absenteeism, and minimizing resistance to change. It also discusses perception's role in identifying and solving problems, affecting needs, and fostering interpersonal relationships. The conclusion summarizes the importance of both elements in understanding behavior, maintaining positive relationships, and enhancing performance. The report is supported by references to relevant academic sources.

Introducing To
Modern
Work Place

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Motivation and perception are two psychological elements that impact on decision
making of human as well as on their behaviour. These are at the base of human selection and
behaviour (Nencini, Romaioli and Meneghini, 2016) . The importance of both factors related to
personal and social understanding them. Both are complex in nature and explanations for them
have been created by numerous schools of idea. In any organisation both are playing essential
role and provide benefits to employees as well as employer to increase performance level and
gain more advantages.
MAIN BODY
Motivation – It is essential factor which motivate any individual to present their best
performance and help to meet with organisational goals. A strong positive encouragement
motivation will enable the improved results of staff members but a negative encouragement will
reduce performance. In other words, It is defined as key factor in personnel management is
motivation. There are two types of theories in motivation which is used by individuals as well as
in organization such as content and process theories.
Importance of Motivation
 Improve Performance level – The term of motivation can help to increase performance
level of employees in any organisation. The capability to do work and willingness both
are effected by the efficiency of a person. It is getting through education as well as
training. To do any work required to willingness in comparison to ability like an
employees effectively perform every task due to motivation and provide effective result.
 Helps to change negative or indifferent attitudes of staff members – In any organisation
many staff members behave in rude and negative way. They always think negatively that
doing more work will not bring any credit. This time a manager apply various types of
techniques to change this attitude.
 Reduction in Employee turn over – The image of a company is influenced by the
employee turn over because it can show negative impact. It will create many problems
for a managers. For this give more time and go waste in repeated hiring staff members
and provide them training regarding to work. With the help of motivation can save
wastages and encourage of individuals for the reduce rate of turn over.
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 Help to deduct absenteeism in the organisation – Most of the companies have rate of
absenteeism is high. There are many reason for absence of the employees such as no
recognition, poor relations with colleagues and superiors, no monetary reward. A
manager deduct all these deficiencies and encourage to staff members.
 Reduction in resistance to change – Due to new changes continue taking place in a
company. Most of the staff members are not equipped to judge any changes in their
normal day to day activities. It become important to carry out changes due to demands of
time.
Therefore, Motivation plays essential role into individual and organisational life because
it can help to any person to do difficult work easily. They can motivate regarding to their work
and make effort to provide their best.
Perception – It is a procedure by which individuals interpret sensory impression into a
coherent. The people regard, determination, retrieve and respond to different type of information
as per the environment. It is based on the partial and unproved information, perception is equal
with the actuality for most practical intent and direct human behaviour in general (Choi, Kim and
Kang, 2017). The perception consist of 5 senses like touch, sight, taste, smell and sound. It will
help to understand perception, a set of sense including the capability to reduce changes in body
position's and movements. It is not only develop experience of the world around us but also it
allows to behave according to environment.
Importance of perception
 Identify problems - It is very essential to understand of human activity because every
person understand the world and approaches the life problems differently. It is mainly
connect with our mind and influence to thinking. For example – when an individual
purchase anything it is not because it is the best but take it as best.
 Affects to needs - Most of the people act according to their perception, the requirement
of different people can be observed due to though of people affect to needs. It is essential
for the manager who wants to ignore issues when dealing with people and events in the
work setting. As a result it will affect to needs of a person and different types of person
perceive the same situation in different manner. In respect to handle their subordinates in
the company it is required the manager must understand their perception properly.
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 Solve the issues - Understanding is very crucial for the director who wishes to prevent
taking risks in the job environment when interacting with individuals and occurrences.
The reality that distinct individuals interpret that same condition separately complicates
this issue. In reference to connect with the inferior efficiently, the managers must
understand their perception properly.
 Interpersonal working relationship – A company is engaging with different types of
employees which carry out several results to integrated with behaviour. A manager wants
to more efforts to attain correctly. Misperception track to strained relations and may even
outcomes (Hou and Lynch, 2017.).
Hence, it is very important to understand the human behaviour as well as their perception
that is how they dealing in various types of situation. The thinking of people based on the
thoughts of what is reality and what is not. The world as it is perceived is the world that is
essential for analysing the human activity.
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion it is concluded that Motivation and perception both are
important for any company as well as individual. They are helping into to understand the
thoughts and behaviour of any person. Through these terms get appraisal as well as develop their
performance in the organisation. It is beneficial to maintain relations in order to encourage
people for their work and understand the perception of their clients.
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