Motivation can be define as the process that account for an individual intensity, direction and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. Motivation can help the employee be more comfortable to do their work at workplace. Beside through the motivation it will influence to the employees performance toward s their job.
There have many differences of meaning for motivation based on our researcher. According to Robbins and Judge (2007), they defined motivation as a process that describes the intensity, direction and persistence of effort to achieve a goal. In conjunction with the work environment, Ernest L. McCormick (Mangkunagara, 2002, P94) suggests that work motivation is defined as a condition that affects stimulate, direct and maintain behaviours associated with the work environment.
The fact is when employees work they brought the desire, needs, past experiences that make the hope for their work expectations. With motivation, especially motivation to make an achievement will encourage someone to develop the knowledge and ability to achieve better performance. Usually someone who has a strong motivation will have responsibility for generate better performance.
According to As 'ad (2002, p45) motivation can be defined as something that raises the spirit or employment encouragement. Therefore, commonly referred to as the driving motivation or morale. Meanwhile, according to Robbins (2002, P166), motivation is defined as the willingness to expend high levels of effort for the purposes of the organization are conditioned by the effort 's ability to meet the individual needs.
Based on the definition above, motivation is the response from the organization or employer to their employees toward of effort of the employees to make them as a work encouragement and employees motive will be achieve.
The theories of motivation is stand as general model to face the problem. Even though the theories cannot give a guide how the manager need
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