Intercultural Motivation

Intercultural Employee Motivation

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Intercultural Employee Motivation

Introduction

Living in the millennium of 21st century, where the world is leading to the success of technologies, advancements, inventions and discoveries, the demand for skilled labor is rapidly increasing day by day. Labor is the only man-made resource that plays a significant role in getting the final output ready for the final consumption of goods and services. Therefore, it is highly recommended to the organizations to establish advantageous relations with its labor so they are encouraged to produce effectively and efficiently.

Rick Pitino stated, "The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they are working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different." Indeed it is true as motivation is the basic incentive any employee is seeking. In the competitive industry of trade and commerce, employee motivation is boosting to avoid unhappy labor, the unhappy customers in other words.

It is highly appreciated and yet has become the need for companies to encourage the workforce at the workplace, but studies have shown that the employees are the victims of prejudice. They are facing the issues of racial prejudice, gender prejudice and caste discriminations. Organizations designed their scales to assess the employees on the basis of the color, caste, gender, ethnicity and religion they belong to (Devine, Plant. et.al. 1998). Motivation is provided on these parameters. These are the alarming factor that does bring conflicts between the employees as well as with the companies.

Discussions

Motivation is commonly defined as a process that extracts controls and maintains certain behaviors. It is the boosting element that encourages working harder and producing fruitful results. According to different theories, motivation is the...