...ILM Course Level 3 Understand How To Motivate To Improve Performance AC1.1, AC1.2, AC1.3, AC1.4, AC2.1, AC2.2, AC2.3 Table of Contents Define the term motivation 3 Define the factors that may affect motivation levels in the workplace 3 Explain how individual differences affect levels of motivation in the workplace 3 Explain the potential impact on organisational performance if employee motivation levels are low 4 Describe a recognised theory of motivation 5 Describe ways in which knowledge of a theory of motivation can be used to improve performance in the workplace 5 Explain how to use employee engagement to increase motivation levels 6 References 7 Bibliography 7 Understand How To Motivate To Improve Performance Define the term motivation The term motivation in my opinion is a strong desire to achieve something. The drive to be motivated I believe comes from aspirations or enthusiasm to achieve a goal or target (whatever that might be). More often than not though I think motivation or the desire to do great things can also be inspired by support from other individuals. Motivated people work with enthusiasm. Define the factors that may affect motivation levels in the workplace Salary Bonuses and incentives play an important role in keeping employees motivated, but usually work best as part of a comprehensive program that provides opportunities to grow. A carefully designed rewards program in my opinion will reinforce behaviours...
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...extrinsic motivation. Is it possible for an employee to be motivated by a manager? I absolutely think so. The two types of motivation are very possible to pass onto another person in the workplace, whether it be from coworker to coworker, friend to friend, manager to employee or even employee to manager. The most common type of motivation that is passed down from manager to employee is obviously extrinsic motivation. I think the main reason most people perform at their jobs is because of extrinsic motivation. The desire to go to work often stems from the need or want of money. Financial motivation is a form of extrinsic motivation. A manager can motivate an employee with extrinsic motivation by offering positive and negative consequences to the employee’s actions. For example, often times a manager will sit down with an employee for a yearly performance review. In this review the manager sometimes will critique the employee’s job performance and offer incentives such as pay increases or promotions to motivate the employee to increase their performance level or to maintain an already satisfactory performance level. In the same way, a manager can use extrinsic motivation in the way of offering negative consequences to the employee for poor job performance. Extrinsic motivation really is the most common form of motivation that people experience at work and receive from their managers. Extrinsic motivation, while being the most common form, is not the only type of motivation that...
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...Motivation in a Group and Team Environment Motivation can be the determining factor for the level of success a team achieves. In most cases, a successful team/group will have been motivated from start to finish. There are some basic “laws of motivation” that need to be understood to maximize and keep a team motivated to achieve. [edit] Laws of Motivation 1. An individual has to be motivated in order to motivate others: A person cannot expect to motivate others if he/she is not individually motivated. To successfully evaluate what is needed to motivate others, it is pertinent to consider the type of person that might motivate you. Is this the type of person that might arrive before anyone else, who is enthusiastic, positive, always has some sort of good news to pass on, is loyal to the group, and leads by example? As a member of a group, each person cannot expect to move the other members of the group to be motivated if he/she not motivated him/herself. If in a group dynamic, there is not a single individual that has motivation to perform or to complete the purpose of the group, that group is destined to fail. Richard Denney states in his book, Motivate to Win, that “if you want to motivate another person, you have to be motivated yourself.” 2. Motivation requires a goal: Without a specific goal in mind, it is impossible for a group or team to be motivated. Although they might feel motivated, without a specific reason for working or something they are working towards, their...
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...Motivation Introduction This essay is about defining Motivation and how it affects employees. Also an explanation of the main the types are to be given. A research on popular Theorist was done to support the definition and types. The researcher recognized what impact motivation has on the workplace and seek to discuss the importance. Theory Motivation is a psychological feature that arouses an individual to act towards a desired goal and elicits controls and sustains certain goal directed behaviors. It can be considered a driving force, a psychological one that compels or reinforces an action towards a desired goal. In other words, a person may have certain needs or wants, and this causes them to do certain things (behavior), which satisfy those needs (satisfaction). Motivation theories can be classified broadly into two different perspectives: Content and Process theories. Content Theories deal with “what” motivates people and it is concerned with individual needs and goals. Process Theories deal with the “process” of motivation and is concerned with “how” motivation occurs.(Ozgurzan, 2013). For this paper the researcher would focus Content Theories. Developing out from the Cognitive Evaluation Theory (CET- Deci 1975) it was stated motivation can be divided into two types: extrinsic (external) motivation and intrinsic (internal) motivation . Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations are two opposing ways to motivate people. Extrinsic motivation deals with motivations...
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...JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIT : ORGANISATION BEHAVIUOR ASSIGNMENT : DISCUSS MOTIVATING SENIOR MANAGERS LECTURER : DR MUGAMBI 1. TITUS AGALLA HD333-C005-2835/2011 Introduction Definitions Motivation Motivation is a term that refers to a process that elicits, controls, and sustains certain behaviors. For instance: An individual has not eaten, he or she feels hungry, as a response he or she eats and diminishes feelings of hunger. Motivation- the concept According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, a motive is “something (a need or desire) that causes a person to act.” Motivate, in turn means “to provide with a motive,” and motivation is defined as “the act or process of motivating.” Thus motivation is the act or process of providing motive that causes a person to take some action. In most cases motivation comes from some need that leads to behavior that results in some type of reward when the need is fulfilled. Rewards Rewards can take two forms. They can either intrinsic/internal rewards or extrinsic/external rewards. Intrinsic rewards are derived from within the individual. For a healthcare employee this could mean taking pride and feeling good about a job well done (e.g. providing excellent patient care). Extrinsic rewards pertain to rewards that are given by another person, such as a healthcare organization giving bonuses to teams of workers when quality...
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...Kok Siew Table of Contents: 1.0 Introduction ………………………………………………………………….……… 3 2.0 Definition …………………………………………………………………….……... 4 3.1 Types of Motivation …………………………………………………………. 4 3.2 Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory …………………………………………... 5 3.3 Herzberg’s Motivational Theory …………………………………………….. 7 3.4 McClelland’s Need Theory ………………………………………………….. 8 3.0 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………….. 9 4.0 References …………………………………………………………………………. 10 1.0 Introduction In the past decades, there has been a very high growth of employment in every sector and industry. Employees, workers and staff usually carry out their specified task on regular basis to meet certain goals and targets the company is aiming at. They are known to be an essential part of the organization as they play a key role in determining the organization objectives. As the employees play an important part in the company, the employers, supervisors and administrators must ensure that the employees are productive and efficient when it comes to fulfilling their duties. The question that arises from this topic is how to make these employees productive and effective towards carrying out their daily tasks and why is it that important? The answer is Motivation and this will be the topic of this assignment. 2.0 Definition Motivation is the state of willingness which mainly acts as a driving force for an individual to put better and exert higher effort levels towards a specific objective...
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...your feet hit the pavement boom… boom…, sweat pouring from your forehead, clothes sticking to your skin. Why are you out here? Is this fun, are you getting a reward, is it for a good cause, did your friend ask you to do it with them? What is motivating you to run right now? The answers lead you to define if you are being motivated extrinsically or intrinsically. These same questions can be asked when figuring out what motivates people in the workplace. Certain types of companies prefer if you are more of one motivational type than the other. I’ve seen the benefits of both extrinsic and intrinsic rewards working for my children in my in-home-daycare. There are different types of companies and for these companies they are looking for employees who are motivated either extrinsically or intrinsically. A company who is looking predominantly at extrinsically motivated employees is typically a company with very specific rules and regulations. A company like this knows that this employee is motivated by receiving some type of reward, be it praise or some form of an incentive, or avoid punishments by following the specific rules and regulations. If a company is concerned about labor costs, or being innovative they would be seeking out an employee who is more intrinsically motivated. An intrinsically motivated employee doesn’t need the ego boost or the reward to feel fulfilled with the job they are doing. The reward for an intrinsically motivated employee is the satisfaction they feel...
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...human motivation that rewards pushing people to perform better and work harder. Pink explains that people have operating systems--the first, Motivation 1.0, is the biological drive to survive, and the second, Motivation 2.0 (M2), is driven by extrinsic motivators. Pink then describes organizations’ limited attempts to improve M2 by fostering environments for employees to grow and gain more autonomy. Pink describes how M2 is increasingly incompatible with how we organize what we do, how we think about what we do, and how we do what we do. He describes how organizations are morphing into entities that allow for a mix of goals rather than segregated by for-profit and not-for-profit. He describes how humans think irrationally, contrary to what economists may believe. Finally, Pink describes how people need to be intrinsically motivated in order for our motivational operating system to function. In Chapter 2, Pink discusses the negative consequences of utilizing carrots and sticks, à la M2, to encourage certain actions or results. Firstly, carrots and sticks have the potential to diminish intrinsic motivation, which is driven by passion, pleasure, and interest in a certain topic or task rather than just by an external reward. Additionally, they can result in narrow, constrained thinking centered only on the reward as opposed to creative, out of the box ideas that can produce original results. Carrots and sticks can foster unethical thinking and crowd out altruistic motivations to perform...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Paper CJA/474 Motivation and Empowerment Paper Introduction The criminal justice field is one that centers on motivation and empowerment amongst employees. These are concepts that not only guide, but also maintain constructive behaviors. Motivation and empowerment are that force every professional needs to preserve their goals and ambitions. This paper will provide three academic theories of motivation including an explanation on each theory. It will also define empowerment and its components. Next, it will compare and contrast motivation and empowerment. In this paper there will also be an evaluation on the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization. Lastly this paper will outline the theory of Transformational Leadership and contrast the roles of motivation and empowerment in leadership style. Define and state at least three (3) academic theories of motivation In any organization the key role of managers is the motivation of their personnel. This can be done in many different ways. This section will discuss three academic theories on how to properly motivate employees. The first theory is Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. This theory states that certain needs have to be met before an individual will work towards fulfilling other needs. The first set of needs that need to be met our survival needs; they include things such as food water and air. Until these needs are met an individual cannot focus...
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...Work-place Motivation: A Book Review on Drive Jessica Gutierrez Fresno Pacific University Work-place Motivation: A Book Review on Drive In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us; author Daniel Pink introduces two types of motivators that he refers to as “Human operating systems”. Times have changed, and business models are changing as well. When our computer software begins to fail, we look for upgrades and ways to improve it. Similarly, we need to upgrade our human operating systems when our current method has not kept up with the ever-changing business world. The concept of reward and punishment to encourage employees to be more productive, is an outdated way of managing people. In order to create a better work environment and increase productivity, we need to upgrade our idea of motivation to include autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Herzberg, a pioneer in motivation theory, determined that there are two factors that motivate employees; high-order needs and low-order needs. Those high-order needs are met by intrinsic motivation, such as fulfilling our personal needs and growth. Those needs include achievements, recognition, promotions, work itself, and responsibility. He refers to low-order needs as hygienic factors; those needs cannot motivate employees but can minimize dissatisfaction in the work-place. Hygienic factors include, pay, company guidelines, quality of supervision, working conditions, relationships with co-workers, and job security (Damij...
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...different. Luke’s Behavioural Profile Luke can be said to be someone who has a Type A Personality. This is because it is evident that he is someone with consistently as a sense of time urgency and impatience, which can causes exasperation and irritation which can explain his fiery temper. As noted by Friedman (1996) like other Type A’s, his competitive drive leads to stress and an achievement driven mentality which is evidence by his belief in monetary incentives and rejection of the “warm and fuzzy” HR style. His tendency for stress as evidence above is also indicative of a negative emotional stability which can also be linked to Type A personalities. Similarly, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) model (Robbins et al, 2010) Luke’s personality can be described as being more of an ESTJ type in that he has a very practical and matter of fact approach to work. His lack of interest in socialising with others or desire for staff to socialise with others is indicative of his desire to achieve results in the most efficient way possible, a trait which is commonly associated with this personality type. Laura’s Behavioural Profile Like Luke, Laura also exhibits a somewhat negative emotional stability in that she also appears to suffer from stress. This is evident in her weight loss, sleeping trouble and tense and anxious feelings when Luke bursts his temper. However, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) model (Robbins et al, 2010) Laura’s personality can be described...
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...Motivation Plan LDR 531 Nelson Garcia Soto December 23, 2013 Denna Atkinson “Motivation is the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal” (Robbins and Judge, 2013, p 202). An effective leader motivates his or her followers or subordinates to perform. Leaders encourage other to be moved by something. The degree of motivation and the type of motivation are both important. The degree of motivation is how much is someone motivated and the type of motivation concerns with what brings that motivation. Both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation are mentioned as catalysts of the explained behavior. Several theories of motivation try to explain the concept and its origins. The purpose of this paper is to explain key ideas of some of the theories as they relate to a team of six members and a mentor who is in a leadership position. The DISC assessment tool will be used to compare and contrast the individuals of the team based on their personalities. Both extrinsic and intrinsic motivators exist. Extrinsic motivation means doing something that leads to a separable outcome and intrinsic motivation means doing something because it is inherently interesting or enjoyable (Ryan and Deci, 2000). In consequence, the behaviors portrayed are different. Intrinsic motivation comes natural and is even associated with behaviors since one is a child....
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...Motivation and Emotion Principles of Psychology Bryant & Stratton College By: Tara Hardaway Instructor: Pamela Parker Motivation and Emotion I choose to write this paper on motivation and emotion in order to identify how if the two are combined they create a sense of satisfaction in the workplace as well as daily life. I had to define the meanings of them and elaborate on the effect of them and identify how they have been used in my professional work life. "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 don't actually observe a motive; rather, we infer that one exists based on the behavior we observe." (Nevid, 2013) When it comes to work a person needs to be motivated to know what type of work environment they would choose to work in. Once you have the right environment the motivation comes naturally. You want to do your best and most you really do. Hauser, L. (2014) stated that in today's society and economy employees are well educated and relatively well off. This fact strongly influences the mechanisms of motivation. Therefore, today's managers have to use a large variety of motivational instruments. While under employment as an Adult Instructor with RCSD, I had the opportunity to work for the Family Learning Center in Rochester NY. In order to attend the Family Learning Center a students who had been out of school...
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...Prepare for Trading Series #1 - Motivation MOTIVATION Trading for any decent period of time is hard, really hard. If you want to trade to make a difference in your and your loved ones lives it is critically important to prepare for this hardship. An excellent point to start is to think about your motivation to trade. You would also like to keep that motivation going for a long period of time, seeing that trading is not only hard but also potentially very lucrative over time. To be clear, we aren’t currently concerned with goals and “how to succeed” at trading forex. Trading goals and implementing processes to achieve those goals aren’t motivation. That follows on being motivated to trade. There are different ‘levels’ of trading motivation. It is really important to know where you pitch up long before you begin to look for “trading systems”, “brokers one can trust” and “low spreads and high leverage”. So the million dollar question remains: WHY TRADING? Your answer will be unique. I think there might be some value in my unique story. Allow me to share it in short. Late in April 1998 I found myself sitting in a conference room of the small company I was a founding member and owner-manager of at that stage. We had some issues. With me were one of the other founding members and some people I knew very well who were in a process to buy me out. Although I didn’t know it until one had asked the question: “why don’t you take our offer of XYZ rand”? Imagine my surprise...
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...Is Intrinsic or Extrinsic Motivation Better? Motivation is a conceptual theory which used to explain and understand the reasons of individuals’ behaviors, actions and desires. Another explanation to motivation is that the psychological process that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior. From past to nowadays, motivation is a significant initiator in many incident. For instance, World War 1, World War 2, exploring new continent such as America, foundation of new companies, people’s life and etc. There need to be an initiator for incident to occur. Motivation is the first thing that comes to mind for the initiator role. There have been a lot of academic journals and researches about the effects and forms of motivation. Researches show that every human being has a different form and satisfaction level of motivation. In theory of Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan which called the Self-determination theory focus to the choices that people make without any external influence and interference and the individual’s behavior whether is self-determined and self-motivated or happens with an external influence. This theory brings us to studies that happened in 1970’s which are the intrinsic and extrinsic motives. Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivations are the exactly the opposite of each other. “Intrinsic motivation occurs when we act without any obvious external rewards. We simply enjoy an activity or see it as an opportunity to explore, learn actualize our potentials.” (Coon, 2010)...
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