The Concepts Of Extrinsic And Motivation In The Workplace

Introduction

Motivation. What is motivation? The word motivation is coming from the Latin verb “movere” that means to move or keep going. The indication of movement is reflected in such common logic ideas about motivation as something that gets us to completing our goals, our tasks and to reach to our expectations. Motivation can be defined as the powerful force by which humans achieve their goals. Motivation covers the biological, social, emotional, social and mental forces that activate behaviour. Nowadays, the word motivation is commonly used to describe why particular person or group of people are doing something. Everyone who ever had a wish or a plan like wanting to lose 10 kg or wanting to win a race, probably instantly understands

Workers that are motivated commonly are more productive, they are helping in the organization and they are more reliable. To have this in the workplace managers need to understand how to motivate workers within the context of the roles they do. As we mention in the introduction there a two types of motivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic. Intrinsic comes from enjoyment of the job itself. Workers may enjoy in their roles that they are doing at work, challenges, contacts and relationships with internal or external customers, the variety of work etc. Extrinsic involves aspects like salary and benefits from the work, working environments, career paths, training and progress opportunities in the business. As we said before and every worker is getting motivated on the same way. Some of the workers are responding better on extrinsic motivation, which in their minds provides that all problematic and difficult tasks can be done and resolved if there is a reward upon competition of that task. And also there is some workers that respond best to the intrinsic motivation which means all working tasks will be done because they have passion and they are enjoying in the challenges that their job is giving to

An intrinsically motivated people are working on the things because they enjoy doing it and it is bringing a pleasure of finding solutions or completing the tasks. In this case money, or any other rewards for finishing the task are not important for this type of people, because they are looking for pleasure. This doesn’t mean that these people don’t want rewards, it just means that external rewards are not enough to keep these people motivated. For example, if student is not motivated to do the assignment because he is not enjoying in that subject, the final grade won’t change his motivation at all. Our feelings and our moods have the biggest power for motivation, here is some examples:

• Curiosity - the desire to be in the know

• Honor - Follow the roles and behave ethical

• Power – desire to be able to have influence in the tasks

• Social status – desire to feel that someone need us and desire to feel