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Theories of Motivation

Motivating and rewarding employees is one of the most important and one of the most challenging activities that administrators in the criminal justice system can perform . Successful administrators understand that what motivates them personally may have little or no effect on others Just because you 're motivated by being part of a cohesive work team don 't assume everyone else is . Effective administrators who want their employees to make a maximum effort recognize that they need to tailor their motivational practices to satisfy the needs and wants of those employees . Motivation is

the willingness to exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals , conditioned by the effort 's ability to satisfy some individual need . Although motivation refers to effort toward any goal , here it will refer to organizational goals because the focus on this is on work related behavior . There are three key elements in motivation : effort , organizational goals and needs

The effort element is a measure of intensity or drive . A motivated person tries hard . But high levels of effort are unlikely to lead to favorable job performance outcomes , unless the effort is channeled in a direction that benefits the organization . So we must consider the quality of the effort as well as its intensity . Effort that is directed toward and consistent with , the organization 's goals is the kind of effort that we should be seeking , treating motivation as a need satisfying process . A need means some internal state that makes certain outcomes appear attractive . An...

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