Project on Employee Motivation
CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Motivation has two meaning: expanding effort toward the accomplishment of an organizational goal, and the managerial process of getting workers to accomplice organizational goal. Motivation is one of the important contributor two performance and productivity. The most basic way to employee is give them a chance to satisfy needs. People tend to strive for satisfaction of need at one level only after satisfaction has been achieved at the previous level. The way a person behaves in a work situation is largely a function of motivation, that is, his desire to fulfill certain needs. Employee’s motivation is one of the most important factor for increasing performance and productivity. Performance result from interaction of physical, financial and human resources. The first two are inanimate; they are translated into “productivity” only when the human element is introduced. However the human element intersects a variable over which a Management has limited control. When dealing with the inanimate factors of Production, a management can accurately predict the input-output relationship and can even vary the factors it chooses in order to achieve a desired rate of Production. In dealing with employees, however, an intangible factor of activity. It attracts and initiates action and also serves as factor in the continuation of activity until objectives have been attained.
MEANING OF MOTIVATION
Scholars and lay people, in their own way have defined motivation. Usually one or more of the following words are included in the definition “desires”, “wants”, “wishes”, ‘aim”, “goals”, “needs”, “drives”, “motives” and “incentives”. Technically the term motivation can be traced to th Latin word MOVER, which means “to move”. This meaning is evident in the following comprehensive definition. “A motive is an iner state that energizes, activates or moves and that directs or channels behavior towards goals”, stated by Bernard
INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Motivation has two meaning: expanding effort toward the accomplishment of an organizational goal, and the managerial process of getting workers to accomplice organizational goal. Motivation is one of the important contributor two performance and productivity. The most basic way to employee is give them a chance to satisfy needs. People tend to strive for satisfaction of need at one level only after satisfaction has been achieved at the previous level. The way a person behaves in a work situation is largely a function of motivation, that is, his desire to fulfill certain needs. Employee’s motivation is one of the most important factor for increasing performance and productivity. Performance result from interaction of physical, financial and human resources. The first two are inanimate; they are translated into “productivity” only when the human element is introduced. However the human element intersects a variable over which a Management has limited control. When dealing with the inanimate factors of Production, a management can accurately predict the input-output relationship and can even vary the factors it chooses in order to achieve a desired rate of Production. In dealing with employees, however, an intangible factor of activity. It attracts and initiates action and also serves as factor in the continuation of activity until objectives have been attained.
MEANING OF MOTIVATION
Scholars and lay people, in their own way have defined motivation. Usually one or more of the following words are included in the definition “desires”, “wants”, “wishes”, ‘aim”, “goals”, “needs”, “drives”, “motives” and “incentives”. Technically the term motivation can be traced to th Latin word MOVER, which means “to move”. This meaning is evident in the following comprehensive definition. “A motive is an iner state that energizes, activates or moves and that directs or channels behavior towards goals”, stated by Bernard