Motivation
Motivation refers to forces either within or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and persistence to pursue a certain course of action. Needless to say, employee motivation affects productivity and one part of a manager's job is using this productivity towards the accomplishment of organizational goals. The study of Motivation helps managers to understand what prompts people to initiate action, what influences their choice of action and why they persist in that action over time.
If we try to express motivation process as a simple model, we can describe it in three steps: (1) people have basic needs (food, achievement, monetary gain), (2) these needs increase and become tense to create behaviours to fulfil them, (3) the more the behaviour is successful, the better the individual is satisfied or rewarded. Individuals can be rewarded in two ways, i.e. by intrinsic rewards (receive personal satisfaction in performing an action) or extrinsic rewards (receive......
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