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Motivation: Dr. Mosam Sinha

Motivation is a psychological force that drives individuals to achieve goals and satisfy needs. The motivation process involves needs that create tension, drives that provide energy to reduce tension, and incentives that fulfill needs and reduce drives. Motivation is complex, dynamic, internal, and goal-directed. It develops desire to work, fills ability-willingness gaps, creates loyalty, and is important for achieving organizational goals. Motivation can be positive or negative, rational or emotional, and monetary or non-monetary. Applications include job design, management by objectives, employee involvement, and recognition. Self-motivation involves communication, optimism, identifying interests, self-acknowledgement, monitoring success, encouraging learning, and motivating others.

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Motivation: Dr. Mosam Sinha

Motivation is a psychological force that drives individuals to achieve goals and satisfy needs. The motivation process involves needs that create tension, drives that provide energy to reduce tension, and incentives that fulfill needs and reduce drives. Motivation is complex, dynamic, internal, and goal-directed. It develops desire to work, fills ability-willingness gaps, creates loyalty, and is important for achieving organizational goals. Motivation can be positive or negative, rational or emotional, and monetary or non-monetary. Applications include job design, management by objectives, employee involvement, and recognition. Self-motivation involves communication, optimism, identifying interests, self-acknowledgement, monitoring success, encouraging learning, and motivating others.

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MOTIVATION

Dr. Mosam Sinha


WHAT IS MOTIVATION?

Motivation is a psychological forces


within an individual that’s sets him in
motion for the achievement of
organizational goals or satisfaction of
personal needs.
MOTIVATION PROCESS
1. Needs –

Needs are created whenever there is physiological or psychological imbalance. For example –
a need exists when cells in the body and deprived of food and water or when the personality
is deprived of other people who serve as friends.
2. Drives –
Physiological & psychological drives are action oriented and provide an energizing thrust
towards reaching an incentive or goal. Drives are the heart of motivational process. The
examples of the need are food and water and drives are hunger and thirst.
3. Incentives –
The incentive is defined as anything that will fulfill a need and reduce a drive. Thus, achieving
of an incentive will lead to balance and will reduce the drive. Eating food, drinking water will
lead to balance and reduce the drives. Motivation can be described as the driving force
within individuals that impels them to action. Because of unfulfilled needs, wants and
tensions it produces the drive. Individuals strive to reduce this tension by their behavior that
they think will fulfill their needs and will give them relieve from the tension. The behavior or
action to achieve the goal results from learning and individual thinking.
CHARACTERISTICS
1. The process of motivation is concerned with needs, desired, expectations and
satisfaction and thus it is a psychological phenomenon.
2. Motivation is a continuous process that produces goal directed behavior the
individual tries to achieve.
3. Motivation is a complex process in which individual may differ in their motivation
even through they are performing the same type of jobs.
4. Motivation is different from satisfaction. Motivation implies a drive towards an
outcome while satisfaction involves outcomes already experienced.
5. The motives, behavior and goal all are dynamic in nature. The needs, drives,
expectations of a person remain changing that is why the process of motivation is
highly dynamic.
6. Motivation is an internal feeling of individual. It can not be observed directly; we
can observe an individuals action and then interpret his behavior in terms of
underline motives.
7. The motives of a person drive him to achieve goals to relieve his tension.
8. If society attaches respect, recognition and acceptance of a job or organization, the
individual is motivated to that job or organization.
IMPORTANCE OF MOTIVATION
-develops the desire to work among the employees and helps the
management to utilize all the possible resources
-fills the gap between the ability and willingness
-creates loyalty in employees and the rate of absenteeism and turn over is
reduced
-creates the feeling team work so that the members work as a team to pull
the weight effectively
-play an efficient part in achieving the goals which the organization has
undertaken
TYPES

1. Positive vs. Negative Motivation


2. Rational vs. Emotional Motivation
3. Monetary Motivation vs. Non-Monetary
Motivation
APPLICATIONS
1. Job Design –
I. Job Enrichment
ii. Job Rotation
iii. Job Enlargement
2. MBO-
3. Employee Involvement Programme-
i. Participative management
ii. Representative Participation
iii. Quality circle
iv. Employee ownership
4. Employee Recognition
5. Performance Appraisal
SELF MOTIVATION
1. Communicate and talk to get motivated
2. Be optimistic
3. Identify interest area
4. Self-acknowledgement
5. Monitor and record success
6. Encourage energy level
7. Assist, support and motivate others
8. Encourage learning

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