Motivation

Motivation

1. Content theories looks at the need an individual requires

   • Malsows heirachy of needs of safety, economic, political and legal, psycholigcal and self accuraltion
     • clayton broke the 5 needs into 3. existence, relantance and growth
   • 2 factor theory - hygiene- the actual environment and satisfying the indivdual needs
   • 3 needs power, growth and the need for relationship and expectance

2. process theories look at the step involved in an indivdual to make a decision about the behaviour they choose

   • Vroom theory expectancy (can i do it) X the outcome x the value of the task. all these are required to ensure one is kept motivated in perfroming there tasks
   • Adam equity thory - the social comparision in the organisation play a role in the indivdual motivation
   • Lewins theory look at goal setting and the need for the goal to be a challenge to ensure the individual is getting the most out of the goal and stasfied with completing the task
   • expectancy theory - the manager needs to ensure that the rewards is valued and of purpose to the indivdual.

3. manager can motivate an individual by

   • empowerment and encouragement.
   • job rotation - keep the job interest giving employee different things to do
   • job enlargement - giving the employee new tasks
   • job enrichement - giving the employee a promotion or more responsbility

4. guide, encourage employee to perform to the best of there abilities and in line of the organisation strategic objective.

   • Instrintic rewards - given by the individual
   • extrinstic rewards - given by someone else such as employee of the month

5. reinforcement theory - behaviour of an indivdual is determined by the consquence of the behaviour .

   • positive reinformcent, negative reinfrocement, punshiment

6. Remunration- is what the employee recieves for there work

   • merit pay
   • pay for performance