BCom Notes Part II Management Motivation

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Motivation

How would you define motivation? Set out the importance of motivation in an organization. OR

What is motivation? Explain the term motivation. What does motivate people in an organization?

Meaning and Definition of Motivation

Success at work is not a matter of only technical expertise but also dependent on the interest of the worker. Creating interest in people to give their best to the work and the workplace is the key to motivation. For this purpose, the managers should know why people act as they do and what will make them to give their best on their jobs.

Some important definitions of motivation may be given as follows:

Carroll Strartle

Motivation is a reported urge or tension to move in a given direction or to achieve a certain goal.

Micheal Jucius

Motivation is the art of stimulating someone or oneself to set a desired course of action or push the right button to get the desired action.

E.F.I. Brech

Motivation is a general inspirational process which gets the members of the team to pull their weight effectively, to give their loyalty to the group, to carry out properly the tasks that they have accepted and generally to play an effective to play an effective part in the job that the group has undertaken.

Weihrich and Koontz

Motivation is a general term applying to the entire class of drives, desires, needs, wishes and similar forces. To say that managers motivate their subordinates is to say that they do those things which key hope will satisfy these drives and desires and induce the subordinates to act in a desired manner.

In sum, motivation is a psychological process which is related to human side and through which the desires, needs or tensions of the employees are understood and they are inspired in such a way that they proceed in a desired direction, provide maximum help in the achievement of specified goals, keep on the drive to work, continue to cooperate with each other, develop and maintain the sense of belongingness towards the enterprise, feel satisfied and their morale remains high. Thus, motivations are the process of steering a person’s inner drives and actions towards certain goals and committing his energies to achieve these goals.