The concepts of motivation and performance are pivotal in understanding employee behavior and productivity in the workplace. Motivation is characterized as the psychological force that drives individuals to commit to and achieve specific goals.
Good motivation practices will help leaders and managers such as :
Encourage your subordinates to set performance goals that are specific, challenging and attainable.
Increase your employees’ expectation that their efforts will lead to effective performance.
Be sensitive to the differences in needs and values among the people you supervise.
Definition Motivation
The forces and expenditure of effort acting on or within a person that cause that person to behave in a specific, goal directed manner.”Lewis, Goodman & Fandt, 2001
Motivation is a human psychological characteristic that contributes to a person’s degree of commitment.”
Stoner, Freeman and Gilbert, 1995
What Is Motivation
Motivation is the process by which a person’s efforts are energized, directed, and sustained towards attaining a organizational goal - condition by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need.
Is the result of an interaction between the person and a situation,it is not a personal trait.
Assumptions for theory Y
Frequently using imagination and creativity in accomplishing tasks.
Capable of self control
Capable of directing themselves (Self-Direction)
Willing to accept responsibility
Willing to work
Assumptions for theory X
Preferring to be led than to lead
Feeling that work is secondary importance
Resistance to change
Irresponsible
Lacking in ambition
Avoiding work whenever possible
Inherently disliking work
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory
Within every human being, there exists a hierarchy of five needs.