Motivation is a desire for human needs and wants that encourages individuals to complete a task. These needs and wants push them to fulfill a job in return for a reward that is beneficial to them. Motivation is a key concept to management as it relates to job satisfaction and plays a huge role in workplaces as people are usually encouraged to do work in return for a reward. Motivational theories have been seen to prioritise satisfying the needs of individuals and plays a big role in increasing productivity of the individual. The three theories of needs include McClelland’s need for achievement, affiliation and power, Maslow’s Theory of Needs and Alderfer’s ERG Theory. And these motivational theories have shown to increase the efficiency of …show more content…
Maslow’s Theory of Needs is structured hierarchically showing the various needs that should be satisfied from lowest to highest in an orderly manner. Its structure starts from the bottom and proceeds to the top with five needs: physiology, safety, belonging, self-esteem and selfactualisation. The first need is physiology need and it is the most basic need which involves obtaining the basic requirement of food and warmth for survival. It reflects the concept of one’s body automatically requiring a certain matter (Maslow, 1943). Without satisfying the physiological need, all the other needs are insignificant. As stated by Maslow (1943), “…the physiological needs… serve as channels for all sorts of other needs as well.” Once physiological needs have been atisfied, safety needs will come into place and this involves developing a safe environment to be in and obtaining a job that can stabilise the individuals income. Safety needs also includes …show more content…
Without a safe and stress-free environment, individuals tend to be demotivated and feel unsafe. Once the individuals have settled their safety needs, eventually the need to belong will develop and this is when individuals seek the feeling of acceptance or affection from other individuals. Individuals will start to develop feelings to associate with others by socialising and crave to feel a sense of belonging with them (Maslow, 1943). Organisations can ensure that this need is pursued by implementing social events and community clubs that allows individuals to interact with one another comfortably. By doing this, individuals can feel satisfied in their working environment and productivity will eventually increase. Next, they will start to seek attention for their work and this is where the need for selfesteem forms. At this stage, individuals are motivated when they are acknowledged for their contribution and efforts to their jobs. According to Ball (n.d), self-esteem involves the need for recognition, suitableness and achievement and allows them to feel confident in their potentiality. Lastly, self-actualisation is the self recognition from individuals as they realise their full
Our physiological needs are the needs for food, sex, health, and so on. Our safety needs are the needs for stability and security in our living situation. Our social needs are the needs we have for meaningful relationships, as well as our needs for support from peers or our society. Our esteem needs are our needs to feel validated, and accomplished. And last but not least, of course are our needs for self-actualization; in other words our needs to become autonomous, capable and fulfilled in what we
Instinctoid needs are the biological necessities humans share with animals. Maslow’s higherarchy of human needs theory assumes “needs are arranged in a higherarchy in terms of their potency. … The lower the need is in the hierarchy, the more powerful it is” (Hergenhan 477)....
Belonging is defined as our need for not only stable but strong relationships. The social need of belonging stems from our need to belong to a specific social group. People need strong and stable relationships with other people. This need for belonging to a group and create bonds impacts our health. An examp...
The hierarchy of needs is frequently represented in the shape of a pyramid and is broken up into 5 separate stages with the main, most important levels of necessities at the bottom and the need for self-actualization
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs arranges basic human needs in the order in which people strive to fulfill them. Physiological needs, basic human needs, are the first necessity on Maslow’s hierarchy that people attempt to fulfill. Thankfully, I am able to say that all my physiological needs are met, for I am blessed with an abundant supply of food, water, shelter, and clothing. I cannot imagine what it must be like for people to live without having their physiological needs met, but I do understand that it has to be extremely difficult for people to focus on any other needs when they are living without the essentials of survival.
Physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and is broken down into many different parts. A person’s most basic need for survival is physical survival and once that level has been achieved you gradually go upwards on the pyramid. Physiological needs are broken down into
The key to understanding what employees’ motivations are, and how managers can support them in their aims and objectives, is to understand that different people are motivated by different things. Managers should make a conscience effort to stay in touch with the interest, skills and abilities that their employees possess. Given the opportunity, it is possible that employees can provide valuable information about how to motivate each other to do a better job.
The first concept of needs is physiological needs. Man’s needs are to have the ability to be organize . The best way to be organize is hierarchy. At the lowest level , it is important for person to have pre-eminent. A person at the lower levels needs to provide a shelter and food . Another need to that needs to fulfill is safety needs. A man’s need to feel safe from danger, threat , and deprivation. In organization , employees needs to feel safe from discrimination and unpredictable administration . Social needs is another aspect a person need in business. A person needs to belong by accept from their co-workers, and management. It is also important for manager to motivate their employees . Ego needs are important as well. It is important for employee to have high self -confidence and self -esteem . Employees needs to have self-fulfillment ( when a person discovered potential). It is important for person be motivate because they will have confidence to complete
There is an old saying you can take a horse to the water but you can not force it to drink. It will drink only if its thirsty-so with people. They will do what they want to do or otherwise motivated to do. Whether it is to excel on the workshop floor or in the “Ivory tower” they must be motivated or driven to it either by themselves or through external stimulus. Are they both with the self-motivation or drive? Yes and no if no, they can be motivated, for motivation is a skill, which can and must be learnt. This is essential for any business to survive and succeed.
In daily life, we need motivation to improve our performance in our job or in studies. Motivation is an internal force, dependent on the needs that drive a person to achieve. In the other words, motivation is a consequence of expectations of the future while satisfaction is a consequence of past events (Carr, 2005). We need to give reward to our self when we did correctly or we has achieve our target. Reward is something that we are given because we have behaved well, worked hard, or provided a service to the community. Theories of motivation can be used to explain the behavior and attitude of employees (Rowley, 1996; Weaver, 1998). The theories include content theories, based on assumptions that people have individual needs, which motivate their action. Meanwhile according to Robbins (2001), motivation is a needs-satisfying process, which means that when a person's needs are satisfied by certain factors, the person will exert superior effort toward attaining organizational goals. Schulze and Steyn (2003) affirmed that in order to understand people’s behavior at work, managers or supervisors must be aware of the concept of needs or motives which will help “move” their employees to act.Theories such as Maslow (1954), McClelland (1961), Herzberg (1966) and Alderfer (1969) are renowned for their works in this field. The intrinsic reward or also be known as motivators factors is the part of Herzberg motivation theory. Motivators are involve factors built into the job or the studies itself such as achievement, recognition, responsibility and advancement. Hygiene factors are extrinsic to the job such as interpersonal relationship, salary, supervision and company policy (Herzberg, 1966. There have two factors that are called hygiene fac...
In this essay I aim to identify the needs of humans and how they have been met from the early days of humanity, right through to the present day. I will be placing a lot of emphasis on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as this is the most widely accepted model and it makes sense that humans will have progressed up this hierarchy over time, this is something I will be exploring in the essay.
Many researchers and the authors who have acknowledged the importance of the needs analysis are Munby, 1978; Richterich and Chancrel, 1987; Hutchinson and Waters, 1987; Berwick, 1989; Tarone and Yule, 1989; Robinson, 1991; Johns, 1991; West, 1994; Allison et al, 1994; Seedhouse, 1995; Jordan, 1997; Dudley-Evans and St. John, 1998; Iwei et al. 1999; Hamp-Lyons, 2001; and Finney, 2002 as cited in Rayan
The physiological needs encompass specific biological requirements for water, oxygen, proteins, vitamins, proper body temperature, sleep, sex, exercise and so on. When the physiological needs are largely taken care of, the second layer of needs, the safety and security needs comes into play. We will become increasingly interested in finding safe circumstances, stability, and protection. We might develop a need for structure, for order, some limits. When physiological needs and safety needs are taken care of the third layer shows up, the love and belongin...
According to Greenberg (1999), motivation is defined “as a process of arousing, directing and maintaining behavior towards a goal.” Where “directing” refers to the selection of a particular behavior; and ‘maintenance” refers to the inclination to behave with consistency in that manner until the desired outcome is met.