Employee Motivation

           Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Managers need to constantly motivate their employees to get optimum results (Mehta, 2021). Motivation is the crucial factor that influences organization employees to work harder, increase work productivity and performance, and ensure on developing the intellectual capacity and competencies of employees (Mehta, 2021). The hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow is considered an early theory of motivation. Maslow hypothesized that within every human being, there exists a hierarchy of five needs (Robbins et al, 2013). According to Maslow, human behavior is related to his needs. It is adjusted as per the nature of the needs to be satisfied. In the hierarchy of needs theory, Maslow identified five types/sets of human needs arranged in a hierarchy of importance and priority (Trivedi and Mehta, 2019). According to Figure 1.0 of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, there are 5 levels of human needs that eventually need to b...

  Employee Motivation – Key element of Organizational Performance Every successful organization is backed by a committed employee base, and commitment is the outcome of motivation and job satisfaction (Varma, 2017). Motivating employees is about getting them to move in the organization’s direction to achieve the set goals and objectives. What differentiates a good performer in an organization from a bad performer and why do not all employees equally not perform within the organization backed by employee motivation levels. Therefore, High performance is achieved by well-motivated people who are prepared to exercise discretionary effort (Armstrong, 2009). A motive is a reason for doing something. It is an inner drive to behave in a particular way or act in a certain manner or way. Types of Motivation The two types of motivation are (Armstrong. 2009), 1.       Intrinsic Motivation 2.       Extrinsic Motivation Intrinsic...