The way people manage a company is very important, inasmuch as a management style gives the rhythm for all the following development and success of a company. A good employer always knows how to make people do work efficiently. It has always been so that different people have different factors that motivate them because needs of every person are individual. The term motivation refers to factors that activate, direct, and sustain goal-directed behavior... Motives are the "whys" of behavior - the needs or wants that drive behavior and explain what we do. We do not actually observe a motive; rather, we infer that one exists based on the behavior we observe (Nevid, 2013). For someone, a reward would be the best encouragement while for another person
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Many psychological studies have been done to investigate, what really motivates workers. It is considered that motivation is an inducement that makes a person act. A large number of scientists have done many types of a survey with the view to understand how various factors affect people. To do efficient work, everyone needs a proper motivation. As a result of scientific researches were generated three main theories of motivation – Frederick Herzberg’s theory of “motivators and satisfiers” and Douglas McGregor’s X and Y Theories. This essay will discuss, compare and contrast Herzberg and McGregor’s motivational theories.
Abraham Maslow was a scientist, who developed a visual representation of human’s needs in a form of a hierarchical pyramid. It is divided into five levels of needs: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs and self-actualization. However, later Maslow criticized his own theory as he realized it was not completely full, one level was missed – actually, the highest possible level – the transcendence. By Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs”, it was commonly considered that once a certain level of the …show more content…
It is obvious that McGregor’s Y Theory responds to the theory of “motivators”, as they both declare that workers could be motivated by assuming more responsibilities and receiving work that is more challenging; also, they would always look for a chance to develop and be promoted. However, the aim of McGregor’s work was to focus on and discuss the differences between X and Y theories – the pessimistic and positive approaches to workers, whereas Herzberg has put the emphasis on the consideration of what exactly motivates people. As McGregor discovered, the Y-type of people are very enthusiastic workers, who are always ready to appreciate a constructive criticism, they have a desire and a potential to develop their skills and gain more experience that is new to them. This part of professor’s work got great success among managers; this theory of a proper motivation of the employees is still applied in almost all companies, the exceptions are companies, in which prevails a dictatorial style of management, according to which a leader needs the complete authority over the whole working process. Different players use different strategies. It all depends on their genetic material. People's tendency to change their choice immediately after receiving a punishment depends on which serotonin gene variant they inherited from their parents. The dopamine gene variant, on the other hand, exerts
Many psychological studies have been done to investigate, what really motivates workers. It is considered that motivation is an inducement that makes a person act. A large number of scientists have done many types of a survey with the view to understand how various factors affect people. To do efficient work, everyone needs a proper motivation. As a result of scientific researches were generated three main theories of motivation – Frederick Herzberg’s theory of “motivators and satisfiers” and Douglas McGregor’s X and Y Theories. This essay will discuss, compare and contrast Herzberg and McGregor’s motivational theories.
Abraham Maslow was a scientist, who developed a visual representation of human’s needs in a form of a hierarchical pyramid. It is divided into five levels of needs: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs and self-actualization. However, later Maslow criticized his own theory as he realized it was not completely full, one level was missed – actually, the highest possible level – the transcendence. By Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs”, it was commonly considered that once a certain level of the …show more content…
It is obvious that McGregor’s Y Theory responds to the theory of “motivators”, as they both declare that workers could be motivated by assuming more responsibilities and receiving work that is more challenging; also, they would always look for a chance to develop and be promoted. However, the aim of McGregor’s work was to focus on and discuss the differences between X and Y theories – the pessimistic and positive approaches to workers, whereas Herzberg has put the emphasis on the consideration of what exactly motivates people. As McGregor discovered, the Y-type of people are very enthusiastic workers, who are always ready to appreciate a constructive criticism, they have a desire and a potential to develop their skills and gain more experience that is new to them. This part of professor’s work got great success among managers; this theory of a proper motivation of the employees is still applied in almost all companies, the exceptions are companies, in which prevails a dictatorial style of management, according to which a leader needs the complete authority over the whole working process. Different players use different strategies. It all depends on their genetic material. People's tendency to change their choice immediately after receiving a punishment depends on which serotonin gene variant they inherited from their parents. The dopamine gene variant, on the other hand, exerts