A good definition of motivation is all factors that encourage people to conduct or behave some way or other. You as a human, need motivational factors to do all things you used to do every day, if you think about all acts you make, you have a good reason for make it. But there are some motivational theories that would better explain the types of motivation that humans have.Those theories are: Internal (works with individual’s variables), Process (mix individuals and environmental elements) and External (that focus the theory on environmental issues). In the study of the motivational process, everyone has to take into account THE NEEDS of each person, such as internal need which are related to intrinsic motivations and external needs that are related to extrinsic motivation. Both concepts have to work together, because both of them generate movement. Pr. Maslow proposes a hierarchical Pramid of needs, in which a lot of ana of needs, in which a lot of analyst based their theories on this.
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He also implement theory X (in which he includes first two chain of needs), and thery Y (in which he includes the other three need), but is relevant to understand that if a manager chooses theory X their workers are going to be costs, on the contrary, if he chooses theory Y, their workers are going to be assets.
At the same way, inside an enterprise, managers have to care about motivational process for their employees, but there are also many different ways to motivate them, those are possible motivations that an employee would receive: economic or material, employee recognition, flexible benefit packages, symbols of distinction, and some others.
But not everything is to easy as it sound, there are causes of motivational problems and there are three principal causes: Belief that effort will not result in performance, Belief that performance will not result in rewards, The value a person places on, or the preference a person has for, certain rewards.
Finally, there are some implications that a manager o an enterprise have to take into account when he is trying to motivate their employees, first able, not all theories of motivating are useful as they look like, so the manager have to take care about their choice, second, all employees and all people have different needs, so is very important to understand the variety of needs that an employee would have, and third but not last one because there are too mane implications of a manager, is that a manager needs or can motivate their employees by simple things such as, training, coaching, or tasking assignments to make feel their employees part of the org.QUESTION: In multicultural organizational contexts what could be a good strategy to keep people motivated towards a common task?
I think there are a lot of motivational processes that a manager can follow up, but I think the most important factors the managers have to take into account are not materials elements, such as money or tangible thing, in my opinion is better to motivate employees with things such as recognition, or motivating with increasing training hours, more than with material things because when they get material things they would stop to increasing their level of performance, however, if they got intangible things employees know that this is great for their professional performance, so they prefer to know much more things that are going to give them added value as professionals than earn more money that they will have to spend immediately.
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- Dorsch, en Psicología General de: Aceves Madaleno José Edición 2000; Publicaciones Cruz México, D. F.
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