Transcript Chapter 4-Motivation

General Principles of Organization
and Administration
Chapter 4
MOTIVATION
NIMFA O. HINGPIT
Discussant
Motivation
Latin word movere (means “to
move”).
Motivation
Miner, 2008
“those processes within an individual that
stimulate behavior and channel it in ways
that should benefit the organization as a
whole”
Motivation
Greenberg, 2014
“the forces acting on and coming from
within a person that account, in part, for
the willful direction of one’s efforts
toward the achievement of specific goals”
Motivation
George and Jones, 2008
“motivation means three things: the
person works hard; the person keeps at
his or her work; and the person directs his
or her behavior toward appropriate
goals.”
concerns to the magnitude, or intensity,
of the employee’s work-related behavior
concerns to the sustained effort employees
manifest in their work- related activities
whereas effort and persistence concern the
quantity of work performed, direction refers to the
quality of an employee’s work- that is, the
investment of sustained effort in a direction that
benefits the employer.
Content Theories
of Motivation
Needs Hierarchy Theory
Existence Related Growth Theory (ERG)
Motivation-Hygiene Theory
Learned Needs Approach
Needs Hierarchy Theory
Abraham Maslow
– In this scheme, once one need is satisfied,
another
emerges
and
demands
satisfaction, and so on the hierarchy.” The
five levels of needs are physiological,
safety,
social,
esteem,
and
selfactualization.