Motivation in Organizational Management - Chapter 2 - Part 1

Concept of Motivation

Motivation in management is the process through which managers build the desire to be productive and effective in their employees. Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to attain goal. There are many ways to motivate employees. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the

·         Intensity of desire or need,

·         Incentive or reward value of the goal, and

·         Expectation of the individual.

 Managers who want to encourage productivity should work to ensure that employees:

·         feel that the work they do has meaning or importance

·         believe that good work is rewarded

·         believe that they are treated fairly

The motivational framework that best describes the way of developing a motivation with in human beings is as shown below:

First of all, human being find his/her deficiencies of needs or try to find out his/her prior needs from the existing life style. In order to satisfy the needs, he tries to find out different alternatives ways to fulfill it. Among the best alternatives, he chooses a best choice goal- directed behaviors and he comes under the behavioral action. After this he feels and output or performance in terms of rewards or punishment. Finally, he reassesses his needs according to his expected needs and again finds out his need deficiencies. In this way, this process is continued and human being is always motivated to wards fulfillment of his needs.

Overall, the basic perspective on motivation looks something like this: