To motivate people, it’s important to understand how motivation works. The policy of using incentives to motivate an employee is not new. The important thing is to understand is that there is difference between different individuals, Every individual will not be motivated in the same way. Individuals react in different ways so organizations should adopt different ways of motivation.
Importance
To achieve high goals and strategies organization need motivated employee. Employees that work in the organization as they are working for their own gains. In today’s competitive environment organizations need motivated employees and it’s the responsibility of the organization that they make such policies that improve employee performance. Organization should know the tactics how to motivate their employees or to judge their behaviors’, feelings and emotions.
To motivate people, it’s important to understand how motivation works. The policy of using incentives to motivate an employee is not new. The important thing is to understand is that there is difference between different individuals, Every individual will not be motivated in the same way. Individuals react in different ways so organizations should adopt different ways of motivation.
Motivation Definition
Different people define motivation in different ways but agreement is on the fact that motivation is a inner feeling that forces a person to perform a task or a persons willingness to do things without any pressure.
There are two types of motivations, one is internal desire and the other one is external desire.
Employee Motivation Techniques
1. Internal Desire or intrinsic Motivation
Internal desire is such type of feeling that motivates a person to work or to do something which is not forced or which is not related to outside of us.
Internal Desire or intrinsic Motivation is a self generated and it arises from inside. There are some factors that motivate a person to work and achieve something without focusing on money or any other materialistic objects. In human beings there are many things that force him internally for example physiological, security, social needs, self-esteem and self actualization.
Techniques of intrinsic employee Motivation are:
Challenges
There are some people who feel motivated by challenges so they like challenges. In this case businesses should put them to challenging tasks.
Autonomy
Some people like to work in their own way so to motivate them GIVE THEM FREEDOM
Opportunityof advancement
For those who want to achieve some thing in their career they want more and more opportunities to achieve their goals in life . Organization should provide them opportunities to grow higher and higher to achieve their dreams.
Learning
Some employees like to develop their skills so for their motivations organizations should arrange training sessions, seminars and give them those projects in which they can improve the talent and skills and learn something new.
Job or role design
Intrinsic motivation can be enhanced by job or role design. According to an early writer on the Significance of the motivational impact of job design (Katz, 1964): ‘The job itself must provide Sufficient variety, sufficient complexity, sufficient challenge and sufficient skill to engage the Abilities of the worker.’ In intrinsic motivation is all about competence which a individual wants to achieve.
2. External Desire or Extrinsic Motivation
Motivation that comes from outside the individual. Extrinsic motivation has a very high impact on a person for example if you arrange a trip for employees to enhance the work performance, this will have its affect on the employee. The impact of extrinsic motivation or the tools that are used for extrinsic motivation are very fast and high but its not necessary that it will last for the long time.
Techniques of Extrinsic employee Motivation:
Rewards
The Most effective way of extrinsic motivation is to reward the employee. Give him rewards for his high performance. Organizations can reward employees with money , incentives , gifts and bounces
Increased pay
Increasing pay is a very powerful tool that most of the organizations use to motivate their employees and most of the employees also think that they feel motivated when they organization increase their salaries.
Promotion
Career advancement is very important for an employee and every employee wants advancement in his career so promotion is also one of very important tool to motivate an employee.
Disciplinary action
Its type of an indirect motivation because an employee knows that if he/she does not work hard for the achievement of organizational goals and strategies then the organization will take disciplinary action against him.
Withholding pay
It’s a type of motivation that employee works for his pay because he knows that if he will not work then the organization will not release his pay.
Criticism
Employees work hard to avoid criticism. People do not like to be criticized for their work, so to avoid criticism they work hard mostly.
Bibliography
Armstrong, M., (2009). Handbook of Human Resource Management. 11th Edition. Kogan Page: London.
Katz, D., (1964). The motivational basis of organizational behaviour, Behavioural Science, 9, pp 131 - 36.
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