Motivation...
the creation of stimuli, incentives, and working environments which enable people to perform to the best of their ability in pursuit of organizational success.
To create and sustain positive environment at the work place Managers today needs to posses the skill of motivating.
Although it is widely agreed to be one of the key management tasks, it has frequently been argued that one person cannot motivate others but can only create conditions for others to self-motivate.
One can take a horse to the pond but you cannot make it to drink water.It drinks only when it feels thirsty: So with the people. They do what they want to do. They must be motivated by themselves or driven by external stimuli favourable to them to excel in productivity. Adopting Coercive forces of getting things done in organisations damages in long run.
To inspire people at work place Managers needs to understand their behaviour, which is complex some times, and learn to influence in order to align their personal motivational forces with organisational goals.
Trusting and giving freedom to choose their own initiatives inspires self-motivating staff. To get self-motivated employees must be given responsibility in work place and empower them.
Three Elements of Motivation
Motivation starts with the desire to be free, to be free from dependency on others, freedom to live the lifestyle we dream of, freedom to explore our ideas. Total freedom is not possible or desirable, but the struggle to achieve that ideal is the basis for motivation.
Motivation is built on three basic elements:
1. Motivation starts with a need, vision, dream or desire to achieve the seemingly impossible. Creativity is associated with ideas, projects, and goals, which can be considered a path to freedom.
- Developing and maintaining love-to-learn lifestyles become involved with risky ventures, and/or continually seek new opportunities learn what works and does not work.
- Developing and maintaining a desire to overcome barriers and to bounce back from discouragement or failure. Individuals learn to tolerate the agony failure brings. In any endeavor, that is worthwhile, barriers and failure will be there. Bouncing back requires creative thinking, as it is a learning process. In addition, bouncing back requires starting again at number one.
Many management theorists have provided insights into motivation. Elton Mayo's Hawthorne experiments identify some root causes of self-motivation, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs provides insight into personal behavior patterns. Other influential research has been conducted by Frederick Herzberg, who looked at job satisfaction, and Douglas McGregor whose Theory X and Theory Y suggest management styles that motivate and demotivate employees.
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