The Importance of Reward in Motivation

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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... ... middle of paper ... ...nfluence them to go to school. The student school truancy problem would not arise if students are motivated. Works Cited 1) Kenneth Thomas, The Intrinsic Reward, November 2009, from http://iveybusinessjournal.com/topics/the-workplace/the-four-intrinsic-rewards-that-drive-employee-engagement#.UyMb7IU5WSk 2) The importance of intrinsic reward, http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/the-importance-of-intrinsic-motivation-in-transforming-learning/ 3) Tan Teck-Hong and Amna Waheed, Asian Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, 73-94, January 2011, http://web.usm.my/aamj/16.1.2011/aamj_16.1.4.pdf 4) Herzberg’s Motivation Hygiene Theory, Arab British Academy for Higher Education, http://www.abahe.co.uk/Free-En-Resources/Theories-of-Management/Herzberg-Motivation-Hygiene-Theory.pdf 5) The Meaning of Reward, http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/reward

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