Hertzberg's Theory Of Motivation

Motivation is having a reason or reasons to act/behave in a particular way. It creates “drive” in people whether it is in pursuit of a goal, or the need to complete an activity. It produces enthusiasm and a willingness to achieve in both a work environment and in your personal life. Motivation can be increased and decreased in line with the incentives on offer.

3. Love/Belonging – the need to feel part of a group and to be accepted.

Motivation is the force that makes us do things: this is a result of our individual needs being satisfied (or met) so that we have inspiration to complete the task.

* Esteem presents the normal human desire to be accepted and valued by others, to have expectations of respect from others, a sense of self-esteem and self value either deriving from Maslow’s lower esteem – the need for others to recognise one’s accomplishments, the need for fame etc. – or the higher esteem flowing from one’s own recognition of self worth from having achieved a concrete objective, mastery, self confidence.

An aspect of motivation that was answered early on in research was learning to understand individual needs. In early research, it was believed that employees worked or were motivated to do so based upon their needs; they were motivated to satisfy their needs in other words. There are four main need-based theories of motivation include: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the ERG theory, Herzberg’s Dual Factor Theory, and McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory (Carpenter, Bauer, Erodgogan & Short, 2013).

What is motivation? As manager’s, motivation is one of the most vital and crucial assets to possess in managing a business. This drive is a critical tool to use in the work place and determine the success or failure of an organization. Motivation is a driving force that initiates and directs behavior. In other words, motivation is an internal energy that drives an individual to do something in order to achieve a certain goal. Therefore, creating a motivating environment in the workplace will lead to happy employees. Creating a work environment like this, managers can expect low staff turnovers, improved productivity, happy customers, and better financial performance. Therefore, the input of motivation use towards employees determines the output efficiency of the company. However, everyone involved in an organization is motivated differently. Everybody has their own individual needs in regards to motivation. Depending on how motivated a person is, determines the effort that individual puts into the work and therefore, how productive they are.

Needs of Love, Affection and Belongingness are needs for safety and for physiological well-being are satisfied; the next class of needs for love, affection and belongingness can emerge. Maslow states that people seek to overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation. This involves both giving and receiving love, affection and the sense of belonging.

Love and Belongingness Needs: according to Maslow after at least partially satisfying the previous needs most people would be driven by their love and belongingness needs, such as seeking friends, mates, family, or communities that make them feel loved and that they belong. (Feist, et al, 2013).

The needs hierarchy is applicable to anyone and everyone. For me, I like to apply it to my job and why it motivates me. As described above, to achieve self-actualization you must complete the lower tiers before you can achieve the most complex need. I have worked at HomeGoods for about three years and it is my first job. I have stuck around for the good, the bad, and the ugly. Right now, we are in the ugly. I am working an average of 35 hours a week because we are understaffed. Why am I doing this to myself? Why have I stayed this long? Maslow’s theory of motivation helped me understand why. The first need is physiological and it is thoroughly completed. I have clean working environment with snacks and regulated breaks. These needs are completed so now I can achieve the second tier. My safety needs are met: a safe working environment, a very secure job, yearly raises, and

Motivation is an important thing in our life. without motivation no one can live because it helps anyone to achieve his goals for example if a person in the school or college study to get a good mark in the exam so if his parent motivates him he will spend more hours to study to the exam and he will not only get a good mark but he will get a full mark. So motivation help everyone to study or work hard to achieve his goal. Motivation is the characteristic that helps to achieve the goals of a person and it is the energy that keep everyone going even when they fall. There are many theories for motivation there is two that is good to talk about it.

Motivation in the work place is good for any organization. A leader will encourage their staff to bring to the table new ideas, be creative, and how to work as a team. In looking at motivation in the work place, employees have certain needs that must be kept in the workplace. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs describe these needs in the workplace and they are: A sense of feeling they belong in the organization, a sense of feeling safe in a work environment, self actualization needs, physiological needs, and finally the feeling of having a positive self-esteem (Warrick, 2016). Employees want to feel wanted and needed in order to have a sense that not only the work they contribute to an organization is needed, but that they are appreciated for what they contribute. Employees want to feel that their work is appreciated and that they have job security. This makes them feel needed, empowered, and that their work matters.

What is motivation? Motivation is defined as “an individual’s willingness to respond to the organization’s requirements in short run.” (P.71 Dixon, 1998) For the purposes of this research paper, I find the most fitting definition of motivation is to define it as “the force that Energizes, Directs, and Sustains behavior.” (uri.com, 2014) Motivation is imperative to productivity. A highly motivated staff often leads to high productivity from the workforce.

‘Motivation’ is derived from the Latin term ‘movere’ that means ‘to move’. Thus, motivation is a process that starts with a physiological or psychological deficiency or need that activates a behaviour or a drive that is aimed at a goal or incentive (Luthans). Broadly speaking, motivation is willingness to exert high levels of efforts towards organizational goals, conditioned by the efforts’ ability to satisfy some individual needs (Robbins). Need means some internal state that make certain outcomes appear attractive. An unsatisfied need creates tension that stimulates drives within the individual. These drives generate a search behaviour to find particular goals, that if attained,

PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS: The physiological needs are at the top of the hierarchy because they tend to have the highest strength until these are reasonably satisfied.

Need is defined as “the gap between current results and desired results-not gaps in resources, methods, procedures or means.” (Kaufman, 1992) Hence, the management focuses on the organization’s priority, which is the ‘What’ issue. It is important to identify the correct need to prevent wasting resources fixing the wrong needs.