Workplace Motivation

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Workplace Motivation (August 2007

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Workplace Motivation

Introduction

Management is one of the primary functions of administrative sections especially that of the business organizations . Why is this so ? Primarily because of the fact that the major function of this particular sector in business establishment is to manage the way by which the business enterprise deal with the employees which it gets its company strength from . Being able to make amends with the way the management deals with the organization 's

workforce is one way by which the business entity is ensured with the success that it aims to achieve in the future (Greenwood , 2005 , 12

This is the primary reason why management could not passively deal with the issues that concern the employees especially when dealing with the retail practices of business (Leat , 2001 , 21 . In this , the concepts and principles of management and its capability to handle the challenge of motivating people shall be introduced , thus discussed through the statements that relate management with ht personal and organizational development of the employees within the company

The Need for Achievement , Power and Affiliation

There are different elements that particularly lead people to performing well in job . Whatever those elements are , they all support the ways by which employees become better acquainted with their goals of gaining several achievements , ample power or authority over others and their need of being affiliated with the organization as it is . The said factors shall be discussed as follows (A ) The factor of fear

Fear , especially at the workplace could give both positive and negative results to the employees . In a positive way , it could be used as a wake up call to the less-motivated ones to improve their performance in completing their own tasks . Fear in many ways could be used to remind the employees of their responsibilities towards their companies which may have been lost because of long time routinary work . In some ways fear could also be utilized as a motivating factor for employees to acknowledge the authority of other employees in the company whereas they are further encouraged to do their best to find favor in the eyes of their employers and senior co-workers

On the other hand , fear , if not utilized well , may case an employee to loose his enthusiasm towards the job . As for example , if an employee is advised to improve his performance by an employer with an angry voice the real idea behind the advice of helping the employee gain progress for himself may be set aside and fear may cause the employee to loose interest and worse , he could even decide to quit his job (B ) The Factor of Learning

Learning spurs up further individual improvement . When a person s bale to learn something new from his job , he is further inspired to work better to learn even more . This is the reason why many business consultants advice that one key to employee-management relationship success is the...