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MOTIVATION

What are managers doing to increase productivity?
First, productivity is a function of each of the employees' unique personalities. Second, employees' behaviors are influenced by the environments in which they find themselves. For example, an employee's behavior (and productivity) will be influenced by a dirty, hot, noisy, or dangerous worksite. Finally, an employee's behavior will be a function of that employee's innate drives or felt needs and the opportunities he or she has to satisfy those drives or needs in the workplace.

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Employees' performance is, of course, partially determined by the opportunities given them to demonstrate their abilities. If employees are never given opportunities to utilize all of their skills, then the employer may never have the benefit of their total performance. Work performance is also contingent upon employee abilities. If employees lack the learned skills or innate talents to do a particular job, then performance will be less than optimal. A third dimension of performance is motivation.

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What is Motivation?

Motivation is a 6 phase process. This process can be explained by the example. Assume that an employee desire have a promotion. This desire of promotion represents ‘Need deficiency’. It is the starting point of the motivational process. Then the employee is expected to search the strategies to get promotion. It is called ‘Search & choice strategy’. Then his behavior towards the goals of the company that he can come into the eyes of mgmt. This is called ‘Goal directed behavior’. Then he evaluates his performance. It is called ‘Evaluation of performance’. After performance he/she is either get promotion by their hard work & sincerity or demotion by his/her performance. It is called ‘Rewards or punishment’. If the employee get promotion then he/she wants to repeat better performance and if he will not get promotion...