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Running Head: Activity 6_MOTIVATION 1

How to Motivate Employees and Build Employee Morale


A motivated employee is a productive employee, and a productive employee is more
profitable than a less motivated one who leads to less productivity, less creativity and less
profit returns to the company ("Victor Holman - How To Motivate Employees and Build
Employee Morale", 2012). An employee who is not motivated may become a liability or
actively disengaged. People do things because they want to and because they have to. When
employees do things because they have to, their performance is often low, and they often do
not achieve their set goals while on the other hand if employees do things because they want
to, they often end up surpassing their goals and performing exceptionally well. An employer
should create a work environment where employees want to do their jobs, they need to focus
on employee engagement.
There are 3 types of employees (Reilly 2014):
Engaged employees work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company.
They drive innovation and move the organization forward.

Not-Engaged employees are essentially “checked out.” They are sleepwalking through their
workday. They are putting in time, but not enough energy or passion into their work.

Actively Disengaged employees aren’t just unhappy at work; they’re busy acting out their
unhappiness. Every day, these workers undermine what their engaged co-worker accomplish.

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, there are five basic needs of motivation:
physical, security, love and belonging, esteem and self-actualization (Mabbott, 2011). One
need leads to the other; physical needs fulfillment leads to security which in turn gives a
sense of love and belonging and so on and so forth. A work environment should be able to
provide employees with enough wages for physical needs to be fulfilled, and the rest should
follow suit – if only it was that simple, unfortunately money if frequently not a driving factor
in employee engagement, remembering that engaged workers stand apart from their not-
engaged and actively disengaged counterparts because of the discretionary effort they
consistently bring to their roles. These employees willingly go the extra mile, work with
passion, and feel a profound connection to their company – it is not about money and
physical need fulfilment as per Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Fear can often be a major motivator that motivates people to fulfill Maslow’s five basic
needs. Fear of loss of physical survival, fear of belonging, fear of security, fear of lack of
self-actualization and fear of low self-esteem. If a company uses fear to motivate its
employees, they will work at a bare minimum, and once they get enough to satisfy their
physical needs, the company will not get further or great returns. On the other hand, growth
as a motivator is much more effective as growth needs can never be satisfied, and employees
will always be working towards self-actualization while at the same time performing
exceptionally and the company may benefit from this.
Measuring employee engagement is important. Measuring the right things (those that matter
most to performance and provide a framework for positive change) is crucial. Gallup's
Q12 employee engagement measurement tool is designed just for that purpose.
MOTIVATION 2

References
Mabbott, I. (2011). Developing management potential: how to lead, support and motivate
care teams effectively Adrian Ashurst Developing management potential: how to lead,
support and motivate care teams effectively Quay Books 9781856424028 9781856424028.
Nursing Management, 17(9), 11-11.

Reilly, R (2014). Five Ways to Improve Employee Engagement Now. Gallup Business
Journal http://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/166667/five-ways-improve-employee-
engagement.aspx Accessed 22nd March, 2018

Victor Holman - How To Motivate Employees and Build Employee Morale. (2012). YouTube.
Retrieved 21 March 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvsSkP6cOxg

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