Employee Motivation

INSTRINSIC MOTIVATION & EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION - PART I Figure 1: Types of Motivators. (Source - Kumar & Herger, n.d ) “Motivation refers to the reasons underlying behavior” (Parashar, 2016, p. 8)  . Motivation is the energy that moves employees forward towards performing a certain action; motivation will strengthen the willingness of employees to work, and in turn it will increase the organization’s effectiveness and competence (Parashar, 2016).Two broad classes of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, have been defined and researched across a range of contexts throughout the years (Lin, 2007; Amabile, 1993; Ryan & Deci, 2000).  That is, they vary not only in level of motivation (i.e., how much motivation), but also in the orientation of that motivation (i.e., what type of motivation)   (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Orientation of motivation concerns the underlying attitudes and goals that give rise to action—that is, it concerns the why of...

  EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION - INTRODUCTION Figure 1: You are stronger than you think. (Source – Anne, n.d.) There are lots of theories which are trying to explain, how and why motivation functions as it does. Rheinberg (2006), defines motivation as an activating orientation towards a target state. Kirti (2012) define motivation as a set of independent and dependent relationships that explains the direction, amplitude and persistence of an individual’s behavior holding constant effects of aptitude, skills, understanding of a task and the constraints operating in the work environment. Another definition for motivation is that motivation is a process that takes place within the person, which affects the degree, direction and duration of the effort involved in achieving a goal (Greenberg & Baron, 2003). Figure 2:Variation of Employee Motivation based on Company Processes (Source – McGregor & Doshi, 2015) To be able to understand how...