Motivation
...of increasing expectancy, perhaps the greatest requirement for all of us is one for self-improvement. How can we be better? How can we do better? And if we accept that the real world that we live and work in is a people’s world, then it is essential to have a greater understanding of a very important aspect of Human Resource Management-MOTIVATION. Human Resource Professionals must understand "Human Behavior" and "Human Psychology" and this should be a must for all "Human Resource Professionals". In this term paper, motivation and its various aspects has been discussed.
1. INTRODUCTION
Once the employees are hired, trained and remunerated they need to be motivated for better performance. A basic principle is that the performance of an individual depends on his or her ability backed by motivation. Stated algebraically the principle is
Performance = f (ability * motivation)
Ability refers to the skill and competence of the person to complete a given task. However as we see ability alone is not enough.
Motivation in simple terms may be understood as the set of forces that cause people to behave in certain ways.1
The Institute of Manpower Studies has claimed that the word ‘motivations’ is among the six most used words in company documents. It goes on to say that just because it is used, it doesn’t mean to say that it is understood.2
1.1 Motivation:
A definition of motivation may be ‘Motivation is a person’s unique set of needs in relation to particular situations. These needs explain what drives a person, what his or her reaction will be to various stimuli, and the strength of behavior, its consistency and persistency based on conscious decisions.3
Some other definitions are:
…how behavior gets started, is energized, is sustained, is directed, is stopped and what kind of subjective reaction is present in the organism while all this is going...
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