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    2.2 Motivation Kressler (2003, 1-2) defines motivation as a rationale behind human behavior; anyone who has motives is motivated and has reasons and causes for their actions and inaction. Rationale to work is generally a combination of necessity to work, to satisfy individual needs and to avoid frustration. However motivation is highly personal and people react differently to motivational factors. Armstrong (2006, 317) continues that motivation has three dimension; direction that tells what person

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    during this stage that ensures their future success. Motivation is seen as a drive or curiosity to learn. Motivation directs behavior to accomplish tasks. It also helps with persistence and improved performance. One of the most common problems we come across handling children is that they lack motivation or do not show interest in learning. This has been one of the main concerns as children’s minimal effort may lead to poor performance. Motivation plays a vital role in increasing positive thoughts

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    influenced by human desires. However, how human desires influence human behavior is a very important issue. On this issue, psychologist Maslow explores the hierarchy of needs theory through what human need is and how it affects human behavior. Masslow 's hierarchy of needs theory not only explains human behavior and causes well, it has also influenced various fields. However, this theory has some limitations. First, Maslow 's hierarchy of needs theory is a theory that explains human behavior

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    however, the human resource department has greater responsibility to make sure that selected managers have comprehensive understanding of organizational psychology and behavior. Of organizational psychology, the most essential element is motivation. If a manager understands the psychology of his/her team or workers, he/she can lead them in the right direction. Thus, a manager plays the role of a motivator who can change the workers’ direction according to the need (Winning, 1996). Every human being has

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    called motivation as the core of management. Motivation is an effective instrument in the hands of the management in inspiring the work force .It is the major task of every manager to motivate his subordinate or to create the will to work among the subordinates. It should also be remembered that the worker may be immensely capable of doing some work, nothing can be achieved if he is not willing to work .creation of a will to work is motivation in simple but true sense of term. Motivation is an important

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    Evaluate the theory of motivation from the Humanistic perspective. By Marialena Posteraro Throughout this paper evaluation of motivation from a Humanistic perspective will be examined. Motivation is the drive within humans that makes us act, it is a process that influences goal directed behavior. Drives are considered internal factors that push an organism into action. Throughout our lives, we have certain drives within us that motivate us to behave and act in a certain way to fulfill our

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    Motivation is one of the internal essentials of life; in other words simply no one can live without motivation. Motivation helps all living organism in the process of achieving their goals or targets. For example all professional athletes target is to be the best at what they do; one factor that distinguishes between wanting something and actually reaching it is the stimulus that moves the living organisms to do a certain action in order to reach their target or goal, which also could be defined

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    employee motivation was a question mark. Engineers, philosophers, psychologists, and scientists were doing their utmost to get the answers and solutions of these questions and problems. Today, we are living in a data driven world and therefore, technology that gather, record, process and converts the data into a meaningful form of data and results for people, has a fundamental value for the community and is at the very heart of almost every organisational experience. Though, majority of humans take

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    RAFAEL Z. I/O PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER 1 More Bang For Your Buck? Pay vs. Motivation Rafael Zavala Fall 2015 RAFAEL Z. I/O PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER 2 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………3 Review of Major Theory…………………………..…………………………………….4 Review of Chosen studies……………………………………………………………….4-7 Références………………………………………………………………………………..8 Author’s Reflection………………………………………………………………………9 RAFAEL Z. I/O PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER 3 Ever since the marking of the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)

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    Compare and contrast one process theory of motivation with one content theory. Include in your answer a brief explanation why one is a process and the other is a content theory. This essay will begin first of all by defining “Motivation” as a business concept and then go on to present one process and content theory each before finally comparing them both. The term “Motivation” was originally from the Latin verb movere, which mean “to move” (Beck, 2004) however this is an inadequate definition here

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