European Journal of Business and Management ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 3‚ No.9‚ 2011 www.iiste.org Application of Frederick Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory in assessing and understanding employee motivation at work: a Ghanaian Perspective Kwasi Dartey-Baah (Corresponding Author) Department of Organisation & Human Resource Management‚ University of Ghana Business School P.O. Box LG78‚ Legon‚ Accra-Ghana‚ West Africa Telephone: 00233209621292 Email: kdartey-baah@ug.edu.gh
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An understanding of the psychological theories of motivation allows one to critically analyse a total rewards approach. Motivation is seen as an important notion in psychology. Psychologically people have their own interior motivations‚ such as love‚ happiness and self-worth and they are also motivated by things outside themselves that for some reasons may cause them to take action. It is the process by which we behave the way we do and direct and make us persevere in our efforts to accomplish
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MOTIVATION (PSY 338) CHAPTER 2 Components of Motivation At the end of this chapter‚ students should be able to: 1) Explain the biology components of motivation 2) Explain the learning components of motivation 3) Explain the cognitive components of motivation 4) Distinguish between the biological‚ learning‚ and cognitive components of motivation. BIOLOGICAL COMPONENT A) Origins of Human Brain Design • Based on the assumption that the human community today is the result of
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1 Theories of Motivation Motivation is regarded as one of the most important areas of study in the field of organizational behavior (Cadwallader‚ S. K. 2003). In a general way‚ the term motivation theory is concerned with the processes that describe how and why human behavior is directed and activated. How to improve and enhance the industry or company is based on how to motivate employees‚ which is an effective method to increase competitive businesses’ advantage and extend their value (Rahman
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retention and motivation go hand in hand for any organization. Among global industries where even after high rate of unemployment; organizations are struggling to retain their employees. Question is whether employee motivation theories provide a feasible solution for employee retention and better strategies for performance improvement? Different articles have provided better understanding of how motivation theories may help employers identify‚ analyze relation between employee motivation and employee
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study Many researchers and authors have defined the concept of motivation. It has been defined as: * The psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction (Kreitner‚ 1995) * A predisposition to behave in a purposive manner to achieve specific‚ unmet needs (Buford‚ Bedeian‚ & Lindner‚ 1995) * An internal drive to satisfy an unsatisfied need (Higgins‚ 1994) * The will to achieve (Bedeian‚ 1993). Motivation is defined as the inner force that drives individuals to accomplish
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Motivation Motivation is a person’s internal disposition to be concerned with and approach positive incentives and avoid negative incentives. To further this‚ an incentive is the anticipated reward or aversive event available in the environment. While motivation can often be used as a tool to help predict behavior‚ it varies greatly among individuals and must often be combined with ability and environmental factors to actually influence behavior and performance. Because of motivation’s role in influencing
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1 MEANING OF MOTIVATION Motivation has been variously defined by scholars‚ usually one or more of these words are include in the definition: desires‚ wants‚ aims‚ goals‚ drims‚ motives and incentives. “Motivation” is a Latin word‚ meaning “to move”. Human motives are internalized goals within individuals. As Berelson and Steiver state: “A motive is an inner state that energizes‚ activates or moves and directs or channels behaviour toward goals”. Definition of motivation “According
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TABLE OF CONTENT 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
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Summary 12.1 Motivating for Performance Motivation is defined as the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal–directed behavior. In a simple model of motivation‚ people have certain needs that motivate them to perform specific behaviors for which they receive rewards that feed back and satisfy the original need. Rewards are of two types: (1) An extrinsic reward is the payoff‚ such as money‚ a person receives from others for performing a particular task. (2) An intrinsic reward is
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