Employee Motivation and proctivity
CHAPTER ONE
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
Background of the Study
Employee Motivation System have become widely spread during the last decades and now often include front line workers to larger extant than before. The major aim of this system is to motivate the staff to work in line with the organizations goal. Employee Motivation System helps the organization by increasing employee satisfaction, company’s good weal, and has efficient and effective operations, many mineral water firms, especially Maaxda and Saxansaxo mineral water Burco, are known’s to be facing poor productivity due to the lack of employees motivation.
According to Gareth R. Jones and Jennifer M. George's book, "Contemporary Management," motivation is defined as "psychological forces that determine the direction of a person's behavior in an organization, a person's level of effort and a person's level of persistence."
Two types of behaviors can occur during motivation: intrinsically motivated behavior and extrinsically motivated behavior. George and Jones describe intrinsically motivated behavior as behavior that is "performed for its own sake; the source of the motivation is actually performing the behavior, and motivation comes from doing the work itself." For example, those who believe in protecting the natural environment and work toward that goal are intrinsically motivated. George and Jones describe extrinsically motivated behavior as that "performed to acquire material or social rewards or to avoid punishment." Those who are working purely for monetary purposes are an example of extrinsically Motivation employee.
Morris S. Viteles wrote "Motivation and Morale in Industry" in 1953, explaining that performance is affected by motivation and motivation is affected by the fulfillment of needs. He believed that industrial psychology needed to be studied objectively to be understood.
Abraham Maslow, a psychology professor in the 1950s, proposed a theory about human needs and the order in
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
Background of the Study
Employee Motivation System have become widely spread during the last decades and now often include front line workers to larger extant than before. The major aim of this system is to motivate the staff to work in line with the organizations goal. Employee Motivation System helps the organization by increasing employee satisfaction, company’s good weal, and has efficient and effective operations, many mineral water firms, especially Maaxda and Saxansaxo mineral water Burco, are known’s to be facing poor productivity due to the lack of employees motivation.
According to Gareth R. Jones and Jennifer M. George's book, "Contemporary Management," motivation is defined as "psychological forces that determine the direction of a person's behavior in an organization, a person's level of effort and a person's level of persistence."
Two types of behaviors can occur during motivation: intrinsically motivated behavior and extrinsically motivated behavior. George and Jones describe intrinsically motivated behavior as behavior that is "performed for its own sake; the source of the motivation is actually performing the behavior, and motivation comes from doing the work itself." For example, those who believe in protecting the natural environment and work toward that goal are intrinsically motivated. George and Jones describe extrinsically motivated behavior as that "performed to acquire material or social rewards or to avoid punishment." Those who are working purely for monetary purposes are an example of extrinsically Motivation employee.
Morris S. Viteles wrote "Motivation and Morale in Industry" in 1953, explaining that performance is affected by motivation and motivation is affected by the fulfillment of needs. He believed that industrial psychology needed to be studied objectively to be understood.
Abraham Maslow, a psychology professor in the 1950s, proposed a theory about human needs and the order in