Employee Motivation

Can Managers motivate their employees?

What is the meaning of motivation? It is the Psychological forces that determine the direction of a person’s behavior in an organization, a person’s level of effort, and a person’s level of persistence. Motivation is one the primary concerns and challenges managers and supervisors face today.

Staff members are the key to the supervisors and managers success, and motivation affects employee performance that will ultimately affect the departmental and organizational goals and objective.

Understanding motivation theories can help managers increase employee performance. Employees generally fall into three types: intrinsically motivation is behavior that is performed for its own sake, extrinsically motivation is behavior that is performed to acquire material or social rewards to avoid punishment and prosocially motivation is behavior that is performed to benefit or help others.

In today’s world, we all need motivation at some point and time at the workplace. Satisfied employees lead to satisfied customers. Many managers today have the ability to have both great management and leadership skills. In order to motivate your staff you must first identify what actually motivates each individual. Most people do their best when they are in environment that makes them feel valued. It may be a simple pat on the back or a simple thank you for a job well done. Managers can do the simplest thing and that will have a huge impact on the organizational morale to motivate staff members. Motivating a productive workforce is no small task. Effective leadership is always the key element to motivating and retaining staff. Good employees want to contribute; they must feel that they where the company is going and that the company is strategically strong. Effective managers instill these beliefs.

When employees have the opportunity to work with a leader who challenges, inspires and appreciate them, they are more likely to perform above their...