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Motivation

Introduction
There is an old saying that you can take a horse to the water but you cannot force it to drink; it will drink only if it’s thirsty ?so with people. They will do what they want to do or otherwise motivated to do.

Some people work harder or exert more efforts than others do. This is why some people with lesser ability can outperform their more gifted counterparts. For this reason, an individual’s performance at work depends not only on their ability but on motivation as well.

Mullins, (1996, p.480) suggests that performance is a product of both activity level and motivation.

Performance = function (ability x motivation)

Therefore, if the manager is to improve the work of the organisation, attention must be given to the level of motivation of its members.


Definition of Motivation
The word motivate is derived from the Latin verb “movere?which means ‘to cause movement? Basically, we want to cause our employees to move toward some objectives. Robbins ...

Posted by: Sandeep Jador

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