Motivation, Self And Unconscious Interactions

Western Health System noticed that many of its local clinic managers were leaving to join the competition. Their human resources director, Stephanie Anderson realized that they were losing a lot of talented people who had become demotivated, and she worked on developing a program to increase their motivation in hope that they would remain committed to Western Health System. Her program, Exploration, had many great features, but to truly asses the program one first has to understand motivation, motivational theories, and the current issues at hand.

Herzberg describes the main problem in business practice is, 'How do I get an employee to do what I want him to do' (1991, p.13) Motivation is a word that is used to describe how eager a person is to complete a task. 'Motivation is the set of processes that arouse, direct and maintain human

Motivation is something that we as human beings all possess. There is obvious levels of motivation, these levels make a substantial difference between a regular Joe and a multi-billion dollar executive. What drives a person to reach his/her full potential is motivation, whether good or bad. Sometimes tragedy as awkward as it may sound will provide

The biggest problem to a manager is managing employees. This is because employers often do not know how to handle their employees. An effective manager knows that motivation is a difficult skill to acquire. So over the years, many theorist have studied motivation in order to

The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) has given me insightful information over 4 different dichotomies: 1)Where I focus my attention 2) How I take in information 3) How I make decisions based on the information and 4) How I deal with the world. After completing the assessment, I was dubbed ‘INTJ’. This being 9% Introvert, 38% iNtuitive, 3% Thinking, and 31% Judging. To my surprise, after reading the detailed report, I found most of the information presented, to be ‘spot on’. According to the Center for Confidence and Well-Being, “Of all the personality types, INTJs are most motivated by “vision”. They have a great need to come up with a unifying idea of a future, improved state, which is then their job to realize. This inner vision can be so strong for INTJs and so individual that they are often reckoned to be the most independent-minded of all the types” (Craig, C., 2014). This provided me with great validation that I have been lucky enough to find myself in the right career. Currently, I am the interim Director of Quality at an acute care hospital in San Diego. Daily, myself and my team are looking for ways to improve hospital processes, systems, and relationships. Always striving for a future vision or ‘ideal state’ of how we would like to see our organization functioning to better serve our community. Many people have told me that they could ‘not do what I do’ simply because of the data collecting, analyzing, reporting, and

According to the dictionary Motivation is an inner drive to behave or act in a definite manner. It is the important part in setting and attaining goals. Employers like Bill who ask questions but do not listen to the response and focusing on the minor details than finding positive outcomes are not

Some of the employees have said that they cannot be successful with the new process because it requires more dexterity than they believe that they are capable of.

Motivation is literally the desire to do things. It’s the different between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing around the house all day. It’s the crucial element in setting and attaining goals – and research shows you can influence your own levels of motivation and self-control. (Psychology Today, 2014) An individual, while capable of determining their goals should align professional goals with the organization; in turn this organization will need to determine the motivation level of their employees through evaluation of the goals outlined by the employee and how to plan to attain those goals. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan (2008) examine in their self-determination theory people’s life goals or aspirations, showing differential relations of intrinsic versus extrinsic life goals to performance and psychological health. They discuss further that when people are controlled, they experience pressure to think, feel, or behave in particular ways. Both autonomous and controlled motivation energizes and direct behavior and they stand in contrast to amotivation , which refers to a lack of intention and motivation.

society who are motivated to perform to the best of their ability, while developing intellectually

14. According to Whittlesey, which of the following is not a component of the changing workforce?

Society exerts extreme pressures on people to act in specific ways whether or not they believe in the righteousness of their actions; many people act how society suggests they should in order to avoid punishment and judgement. A man chastises the Gossips for their lowly reasons for proper behavior: “’Is there no virtue in a woman, save what springs from a wholesome fear of the gallows?’” (Hawthorne 39). The women fear the death and punishment which the Puritan Society they live in threatens, and allow such threats to dictate the way they act. When people carry out actions simply to avoid punishment or gain rewards and recognition, their selfish motivations take away from their noble deeds. The mind and personal motivations must work in harmony in order for an individual to truly act in a highly moral way. Both specific, well thought out motivations for why an action exists as the right choice, along with the outward action itself must occur in order for one to achieve higher levels of morality. The fears of judgment, public punishment, and both physical and mental injury can cause people to simply act out of basic instincts and through egocentric motivations. Lawrence Kohlberg defines his early stages of moral development by simplicity of decision-making, and a fixation on punishment and reward: “The physical consequences of action determine its goodness or badness regardless of the human meaning or value of these consequences” (Kohlberg n.p.). In the early, pre-conventional

I scored the highest in the discovering self-motivation, gaining self-awareness, and adopting lifelong learning categories. In self-motivation and gaining self-awareness I scored 78. My second highest categories are adopting lifelong learning, in which I scored 72. I feel that I do well in discovering self-motivation because I am my biggest cheerleader. Early on in my life, I knew that my parents would not be the ones to tell me, “if you can dream, you can do it!” types of people. They were the sort of parents that were not emotionally available or caring. For instance, I remember telling my parents that I wanted to be a doctor and their response was “........”. I don't hate my parents for their lack of responses or their faith in my abilities. My parents were busy working and taking care of my older brother due to his chronic illnesses. They didn't always have the time to talk to me about my dreams and aspirations, so I talked to myself about them.Additionally, I feel that I good a self-motivation because I never really had anyone to remind me to do something. For example, I never got reminded to do my homework and I rarely got asked if I completed it.

(P2.4) Motivation refers to the willingness of individuals to perform certain tasks or actions and because when workers are motivated they strive more to improve and develop their skills to do a better job for their next task that are given to them. Here are the motivational techniques that can resolve to motivate employees to perform better:

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,