The Need for Motivation in Leading People

THE NEED FOR MOTIVATION IN LEADING PEOPLE

I will be sharing with you in my post for the next few days on leadership. Actually I am feeling lazy to write, and since I have a book (Fundamentals of Management and Administration) that deals somewhat with leadership – a topic I should be writing on, I feel I should just copy some of my thoughts in the book out for you. I know you will enjoy reading them.

It is one thing for individuals to be assigned duties and tasks, the performance of those duties is a totally different ball game. Job performance most times is a direct off-shoot of motivation. There must be some prodding, some ‘push’ to achieve the required results of jobs. This ‘push’ aimed at improving performance, is motivation.

Motivation can be seen as a set of factors which ensure that people make the choices and carry out the roles, tasks and functions assigned to them and inducing desired behavior and actions in them.

Motivation can also be seen as a general term applying to the entire class of drives, desires, needs, wishes and similar forces.

Further, Motivation can be seen as the set of processes that moves a person towards a goal. It is not an easy task to increase employee motivation because employees respond in different ways to their jobs and the organization’s practices. Motivation indisputably influences productivity. A highly motivated workforce is a highly productive (effective) workforce. Where motivation is lacking, job performance speed is slow because worker’s morale is low. The basic purpose of motivation is needs satisfaction. Motivation behavior results from a felt need.


Stimulus                   Appropriate Behavior                   Desired Outcome /Goal


The stimulus includes the drive or incentive, urge, etc followed by an appropriate motivational behavior which enhances the achievement of the desired outcome or goals.


To help them achieve maximum productivity levels, superiors must necessarily understand what motivates employees to reach the highest performance levels. Employees may not say exactly what it is that satisfies their needs, but, by being over them over a relatively long period of time, a sensitive superior would certainly read through the lines. In motivating situations, if you know what the high strong needs of the individuals you want to influence are, then you should be able to determine what goals you can provide in the environment to motivate those individuals.

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