Features of Motivation

In a chemical reaction chemist use the term catalyst which is a chemical that accelerate the speed of chemical reactions. Similar way, management people always relate motivation as a catalyst for business activity. When it is applied on a required level of motivation, the business results gets done faster. Motivation and its importance have been discussed earlier. The characteristics of motivation are.

 Motivation always relates with needs and wants. Human needs and wants are always there to fulfill. When there is a need arises, one performs well to achieve it. For example, if an employee finds that he has a growth opportunity in the firm as an assistant human resource manager, he will surely come in early morning and work as much as possible for the achievement of that goal. The needs and wants make a strong desire in once life to achieve goals. Also it is a cyclical process. The wheel of a vehicle always rotates. In the same manner the motivation process rotates. When there is a need arises, the rolling of the wheel starts and rotates once until the need fulfills. Again there come so many needs, process proceeds.

As human beings are different in their psychological and physiological behavior, the managers find difficult to understand the persons and give proper motivation to people at optimum level. If this task fails it results in the individual performance and the organizational performance. So it is critical task to give proper motivation at right time at right level. Also it is in continuous in Nature. Motivation process both in business and personal life goes on till the end of organization’s and person’s life. It has to be given on regular basis to achieve short term and long term goals. As the needs and wants of the individual goes on increasing motivation process also goes on. A beginner of an organization wants to be middle level manager; once he reached there he wants to go to top level. This process goes on.

In a business concern, the motivation can be done in the way of incentives. The different kinds of incentives are financial incentives and non financial incentives.  Financial incentives are the monitory benefits especially payment given to employees for their additional work. For example, if an employee is allotted to work for 20 pieces a day and the employee brings 25 pieces a day from his work, then he will be paid incentives for additional 5 units. Non financial incentives are the incentives that there is no money related aspects. But he will be appreciated or recognized by the organization for his work done. Certain organization places a black board or notice board on the work place which shows the list of good performers of the day or week. This gives recognition to the employees.