Motivation: A Driving Force For Human Beings

Motivation can be considered as art of encouraging people or oneself to work. It is the continuous effort of stimulating people to positive action directed towards achieving the targets. Motivation can be positive or negative, intrinsic and extrinsic, financial and non financial. It is seen that needs give rise to wants, which generate tensions. This tension can be removed by motivation. The immediate effect can be seen in ones behavior which results in improved performance.

Different ways of achieving motivation:
1) Working conditions should be improved.
2) Healthy atmosphere and proper ventilation should available.
3) Safety of workers should be given first priority.
4) The workers must be taught different ways of achieving efficient work without much effort.
5) Training must be imparted to them for adapting to newly adapted machines.
6) Awards should be given to proper employee.
7) Increase in wages of workers should be done after a specific period.
8) The incentive schemes must give justice both to employees and employers.
9) Feeling of job security should be generated in their mind.
10) Goodwill and sincerity of management should be reflected through proper actions taken by them.
11) Employees should be given social security and care must be taken to identify their problems.
12) The structure of motivation must be flexible. It means that encouraging employees by adapting techniques relevant to situation.
13) The system of motivation should be transparent and easily understandable by all.

Money as motivation factor:
1) In today’s modern era materialism has gain importance in each individual’s life.
2) New schemes should be carried out for employees for example: creating their savings account, insurance policies.
3) Money is main objective and should be measured as means for measuring relationship between effort and reward.
4) Wages should be increased in proportion to increase in output.

Goals:
An environment of faith and freedom can be created by setting goals with that are jointly decided by workers and management. The goals that are fixed should be concise and to the point. The employees should be aware of what exactly is expected from them. Quality and quantity is what matters and hence should be made clear. Objectives to be achieved if are moderately challenging motivates the members of team. A leader of team must encourage his team and guide them on the path of success. Following requirements should be met to achieve goals
1) Specifying target.
2) Difficulties in achieving goal.
3) Getting involved in achieving goals.
4) Looking into the feed back of efforts.

Advantages of Motivation
There are certain distinct advantages which are highlighted below:
1) It keeps the employee cheerful thus imparting delight on group by keeping them merry.
2) Each member of organization feels for the company and tries to gives his sincere effort in achieving new goals.
3) Changes can be easily brought in a firm if employees have complete faith on its firm. This happens only when they are motivated regularly.
4) Motivation gives job satisfaction.
5) Productivity is the outcome of performance. Performance can be improved by motivation.
6) It raises self respect and raises discipline among employees.
7) It helps to improve the interest and attitude of employees which is useful while training employee which require their complete attention and devotion.
8) It helps to avoid strikes and other such activity that hampers company’s production.
9) It helps in making the efficient use of available human resources.