Motivation actually describes the level of desire employees feel to perform, regardless of the level of happiness. Employees who are adequately motivated to perform will be more productive, more engaged and feel more invested in their work. When employees feel these things, it helps them and thereby their managers are more successful. It is a manager’s job to motivate employees to do their jobs well. So this process through which managers encourage employees to be productive and effective.
“Motivation is generally considered to be an internal state that initiates and maintains goal directed behavior” -Mayer (2011)-
This is a one of the statement of motivation said …show more content…
And also motivation can be define as this,
❖ The driving force within individuals by which they attempt to achieve some goal in order to fulfill some needs or expectation.
❖ The degree to which an individual wants to choose in certain behavior.
And also motivation is the forces that cause people to behave certain ways. Motivation is both an incredibly important and an extremely complex phenomenon.
Frederick.W.Taylor (1856-19150) is one of the earliest advocates of scientific management. Taylor played the dominant role. Frederick taylor developed this system of scientific management, which he believed would lead to a more efficient and productive workforce. First step is develops a science for each element of the job to replace old rule of thumb methods.
Second step is scientifically select employees and then train them to do the job as described in step 1.
Third step is to supervise employees to make sure they follow the prescribed methods for performing their jobs. But use workers to get the work done.
When we are talking about the motivation, there is another for main theories of motivation, for an …show more content…
Theory X and Theory Y
Theory X is a negative view of people
Theory Y is a positive view of people
Theory Y assumption should guide management practice and proposed that participation and decision making responsible and challenging jobs and good group relations would maximize employee motivation.
Herzberg’s Two-Fact Theory.
This is also known as hygiene theory. And also in this theory mainly focus on to factors. Simply it is,
• Job satisfaction.
• Job dissatisfaction.
McClelland’s Three-Needs Theory
David McClelland introduces a theory with three factors. Actually those three are the main factors on motivation because people get motivated because of these three factors those factors are,
i.Need for achievement ii.Need for power iii.Need for Affiliation
This is about the motivation and its important facts.
Why Taylorism is an inappropriate theory of motivation for engineers within a modern workplace