Introduction:
This essay I will be looking at the essential factors of an organisations effective management and human’s resources. I will be looking at some theories which relate to the key principles which are recruitment and selection, personality and motivation. In this essay I will talk about these key principals in more detail throughout and link them to a business.
Motivation:
“When there is motivation, there is initiative and direction, courage, energy, and the persistence to follow your goals”. (Sasson, 2001). Motivation is the inner strength and determination that drives an individual into taking action to achieve a goal or target. Businesses look at motivation as a key attribute in candidates with regards to recruitment and
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In Maslow’s hierarchy, motivation is mentioned relatively high up in the pyramid, it shows why motivation is so important and how it helps staff to produce work of a higher quality when they are motivated. Maslow said, “One gains the psychological freedom to be creative and to grow as well as to be more generous to others” (Maslow, 1987). In this passage Maslow states that when one person is motivated, he/she will have a positive effect on the people around him/her therefore it is essential to have motivated staff.
An example of motivation could be Park Resort. At the Isle of Wight Park Resort location, the caravan cleaners were happy and committed to their work. This was due to the fact that the manager had sacked unnecessary supervisors and had increased the wage of employees to £9 an hour. The cleaners were extremely happy at this location as they had more hours to work and additional wage. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has five stages, which are, physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualisation. Safety needs is something mentioned in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. If employees are guaranteed financial security, this is a moral boost for them and therefore are motivated.
Personality:
Personality is a characteristic an individual processes that varies amongst different people. An example of this
According to Maslow’s Needs theory, based on the fact that a person is justified as long as he still has not reached a certain level of satisfaction, has a better understanding of the fact that human motivation leads to a broad spectrum of their needs we could say that in order to motivate people, the manager has to give employees the opportunity to meet the needs in a way that together lead to the organization's objectives.
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.
Maslow identified that employees have the motivation to achieve certain needs. Once these needs have been achieved the employee will seek to fulfil the next set of needs.
Burton, western & Kowaslki (2015) describes Personality as the enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are expressed in different circumstances. In other words it can be defined as differences in characteristics in a person, including their way of thinking, likes, dislikes, sociability, openness, feelings and behaviour, which make them the person they are and differentiates them from others. All these traits when brought together is known to be the personality of that particular person.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs was introduced in the mid-1940’s by Abraham Maslow; it is one of the most popular theories of work motivation to this day. the theory was originally used specifically in a psychological setting, but was made more popular by Douglas McGregor in the late 1960’s and began to be used by not only psychologists but managers as well (Steers & Porter, 1983). The hierarchy is based on the fact that human beings have needs, Maslow took these needs and separated them into five categories: physiological needs, safety, belongingness or social needs,
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.
Motivation is the number one driving force behind anything and everything an individual does each day. “Motivation is the desire to do the best possible job or to exert the maximum effort to perform an assigned task. Motivation energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior directed towards a goal.” (Honor, 2009). Motivation can determine the outcome of projects, goals, and can set limits on what an individual can obtain or what they believe they can obtain. Motivation often is the deciding factor on how successful a project in an organization is, and an individual’s needs and desires can both influence a person’s motivation greatly. Motivation can also determine how well an individual does in school, college, or university.
Motivation according to Kelley (2014) is the ‘process through which managers build the desire to be productive and effective in their employees’. If an employee is motivated, they are more likely to be productive and generally staff turnover is low. The problem of worker motivation is that workers are not seen as humans, they have a lack of freedom at the workplace and lack of job fulfilment. Taylor and McGregor Theory X argue that there is not a problem with worker motivation, workers will be obedient because of fear of losing their job motivates them to do well. Whereas Maslow and McGregor’s Theory Y argues that there is a problem with worker motivation because of class conflict between the worker and the manager. The
In Drive, Pink takes the audience on a journey to discover the undermining behavior behind motivation in business settings. Since the beginning of time, as the human race has grown and developed, motivation techniques have adapted to suit our needs. From the work of multiple psychologists and scientists, we may have discovered that the current motivation practices may be outdated and ultimately, inefficient. Based on the findings in Drive, I will explain how Maslow’s Theory is most consistent with the book and how I related to Pink’s three motivation elements.
Motivation is the key to the success to any organization. “Human relation thinkers see the terms motivation and behavior as closely related because human behavior occurs as a result of motivation” (Razik & Swanson, 2010, p. 108). Motivating people to work harder, give of themselves 100%, encouraging the employees to not only work harder, but smarter to develop ways of doing things better can be one of the hardest jobs of an organization (Razik & Swanson, 2010). In this essay I will describe several motivational theories Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,
Psychologist Abraham Maslow established a theory of motivation to justify how people in diverse organizations behave. His human requirements theory states that humans are never completely satisfied; that they crave satisfaction and those requirements can be classified into a hierarchy based upon importance. The lowest level of importance includes peoples’ desire to satisfy their physical needs, such as hunger and thirst. Following the lowest level, individuals need basic security and stability. After physical and safety needs are satisfied, individuals have the desire to gain acceptance into a group and to establish meaningful relationships. Once this need is somewhat fulfilled, one will strive for self-confidence and personal achievement. Lastly, an individual must realize their potential or they will become dissatisfied and discontent. This theory assists managers to motivate subordinates in a diverse workplace by ensuring low-level needs are met first. Then, management will be able to pursue supervising employees as they complete more multifaceted tasks. An effective manager influences employees positively by creating a safe work environment, providing the necessary tools and resources and involving employees in decision-making processes (Maslow, 1943, 1954).
The subject of motivation has been an important component in both theoretical and applied literature. There are many reasons why the motivational theories have generated so much discussion. In an organization motivation has been considered an important factor because employee motivation is considered essential for an organization 's status within the business environment and the community. The two motivation theories selected for this paper is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg hygiene factors.
‘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,
Human resource management provides way through which people can be managed within the organization. It is being considered as one of the most important function for any company (Bernardin and et. al., 2011). This is because, it is with the help of the given concept only an effective management of individual can be carried out within enterprise. In addition to this, given department has the basic function of carrying out the recruitment, selection and training and development of the employees. For the given report Qbic hotel is selected. It is small but rapidly growing hotel that operates its function in London City. It has its first branch situated in financial business centre of Amsterdam and in the year 2013 hotel had opened its second branch of Qbic in London City in Whitechapel.. The report will depict about the role that human resource department plays in achieving and raising the effectiveness of the organization. In addition to this, the study will also showcases the way through which HR related strategies and practices that can be developed by manager of Qbic hotel with an aim to ensure the success of its organization in the specific market. Further, the report will also showcase upon the way through which an effective framework for strategic human resource management can be framed by the organization.