The motivation is classified as an administrative process, which aims to encourage the people to generate the best performance for the purpose of achieving the company mission through providing the employees the necessary motivations on the basis of their needs.
Amabile (1994) mentioned that it is necessity for the organization leaders to learn, understand and deal effectively with the employees’ motivation because this is considered as a type of organizational support. In additions, when the employees feel that they are motivated, high level of performance will be executed (Lindner, 1998).
Forgas, Williams and Laham (2005) mentioned that the term “motivation” has been developed in the beginning of 1980s because prior …show more content…
In his hierarchy of the needs, he argued that there are 5 basic needs as follows:
1. Physiological needs:
These needs are directly related to survival. These are usually tangible needs such as eating, dress, and sleep. The absence of these needs can cause physical harm or makes a person unable to work at full capacity.
2. Security and Safety Needs:
This type of need represents the protection from different risks. Economic insecurity caused by economic crises and the unemployment. These security needs will be reflected in various patterns i.e. the job security.
3. Social needs:
It reveals the need for the social dimension of an individual who needs to feel accepted by groups of people trapped in the family, work ... etc.
According to Maslow, the person must feel that he is belonging and be accepted among social …show more content…
Internal and external motivation in the diverse environment
Motivation can be classified as self-motivation and external. Internal and external motivation differs in the source of stress or pleasure that reinforces each other.
Ambile (1993) stated the following:
A. Individuals are internally motivated when they have the interest, inquisitiveness satisfaction, work challenges and the self-expression.
B. Externally, the individuals are motivated when they are engaged in the work for a specific goals other than the work itself (Ambile, 1993).
Ambile (1993) mentioned that the staff can be motivated internally or externally to perform certain tasks and that external and intrinsic motivation can reinforce each other, while Deci (1972) argued that there are some cases, external stimuli may also reduce the self-motivation.
Moreover, Fornham (1998) mentioned that the researchers see that the people do not have equal enthusiastic, thus, the employees are also different.
3. Conclusions
This paper focuses critically on the employees’ differences and the role of motivation to improve the performance which leads to achieve the individual and organizational