LESSON 5

• Employee Motivation

  • Defined as a factor or set of variables that motivate employees to perform their job duties or achieve their career objectives.
• 1. Intrinsic Motivation

  • Internal staff motivation.

  “When the job itself drives you”
• Curiosity

  • Pushes us to explore and learn for the sole pleasure of learning and mastering
• Challenge

  • Helps work at a continuously optimal level work toward meaningful goals
•  Recognition

  • Have an innate need to be appreciated and satisfaction when our efforts are recognized and appreciated by others.
• Cooperating with others satisfies our need for belonging, and working together to achieve a shared goal
• Competition

  • Poses a challenge and increases the importance we place on doing well.
• Fantasy

  • Involves using mental or virtual images to stimulate your behaviour.
• Extrinsic Motivation 

  Reaching a goal outside of work.

  Outside influences such as money, fame, grades, and acclaim may motivate people to behave in specific ways.

  • External reward (earn points, discounts)
• Affiliation Motivation

  • A desire to build social connections with other individuals.

  (are praised for their positive attitude and cooperation, they work better.)
• Competence Motivation 

  • A desire to be excellent at something that allows a person to produce high-quality work consistently.
• Power Motivation 

  • A desire to impact other people, to influence their behavior or feelings.

  (inspiration, nurturing, authority, leadership, control, dominance aggresiveness)
• Attitude Motivation

  • Personal development and fulfillment by altering how individuals think and feel.
•  Fear Motivation

  • Doing against their will when they are motivated by fear.