The Goal of this Article is to analyse the various Motivation Theories for employees in the workplace environment. It attempts not to just present yet another theory of work motivation, rather focusing on metatheory which is the processes through which we can build more valid, more complete and more practical theories.
The authors of this article have drafted six recommendations that they believe and feel that are the best. It is in their view a combination of facts that can lead to better understanding of employee motivation factors and effective methods of management.
Recommendation 1 : Using the results of the existing meta-analyses to Integrate the valid aspects of different extant theories.
In analysing the many theories that are available regarding work motivation the authors of this article found it amazing that there such large number of view points that existed when it comes to understanding the concept of motivation. This according to the authors can be explained by the fact that all the different theories are not really that different to each other.
The authors of this article state that the idea using of Meta-analysis to build a theory, which is termed “mega-analysis” Was suggested by Schmidt. Schmidt and his colleagues used this in a small scale in the field of human resources management by tying it to a lot of factors such as Job experience, abilities, knowledge and performances on work samples as well as in the workplace (Happy Performing managers 2006- By Peter Hosie, Peter Sevastos, Cary L. Cooper ) . The authors are of the review are of the point of view that the scale of the study needs to made much wider and bigger to be useful to theorists and practitioners .
Recommendation 2 : Create a Boundary-less science of work motivation.
The article states that knowledge is gained when it is shared between the different departments within a organisation. The article gives the