MOTIVATION
OBJECTIVES
Motivation
is a set of favourable or unfavourable feeling and emotions with which
employees view their work. Motivation is an affective attitude –a feeling of
relatively like or dislike towards something.
If the employee is de motivated with his or her job they will quit the
job faster. Motivation plays a very important role in any organisation. A Motivated employee is an asset to an
organisation. Hence studying the topic becomes very important.
Some
factors effecting Motivation are universal and consistent. However, there are
more important factors that contribute to Motivation, such as relationship with
the immediate supervisors, monetary and non monetary needs, Incentives, Working
Conditions, Work Culture, management recognition of employee job performance,
and communication between employees and senior management.
With
the help of this questionnaire I intend to measure the Motivation, identify its
source and possibly what factors are most important in determining Motivation.
MOTIVATION
Meaning of Motivation
Technically the term motivation can be
traced to a Latin word movere, which
mean to “move”.
In a system sense, motivation consists
of these three interacting and interdependent elements:
·
NEEDS: Needs are created whenever there is
physiological or psychological imbalance. For example, a need exists when cells
in the body are deprived of food and water or when the personality is deprived
of other people who serve as friends or companies. For example, an individual
with a strong need to get ahead may have a history of consistent success.
·
DRIVES: With a few exceptions, drives, or motives
(the two terms are often used interchangeably), are set up to alleviate needs.
A physiological drive can be simply defined as a deficiency with direction. They
are at the very heart of the motivational process. The examples of the needs
for food and water are translated into the hunger and thirst drives.
·
INCENTIVES: At the end of the motivation cycle
is the incentive, defined anything that will alleviate the need and reduce a
drive. Thus, attaining an incentive will tend to restore psychological and
physiological balance and will reduce or cut off the drive. Eating food,
drinking water and obtaining friends will tend to restore the balance and
reduce the corresponding drives. Food, water, and friends are the incentives in
these examples.
METHODOLOGY
Survey is conducted to check if
these motivational schemes do actually lift the morale of an employee working
in an organization or not. For this we have taken a sample size of 10 people
working in the organization
To these 10 people we gave a questionnaire to fill
which consisted of questions based on factors which motivated them at their
work place and what more did they expected from their employers.
Sr. No.
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Questions
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Strongly
Disagree
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Disagree
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Neither
Agree nor
Disagree
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Agree
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Strongly
Agree
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01
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I
am happy with the salary increments given to me.
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02
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I
get regular feedback for the work done by me.
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03
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I am satisfied with the lunch break, rest breaks
and leaves given in the organization.
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04
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Good
physical working conditions are provided in the organization
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05
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I am satisfied with the salary I
draw at present.
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06
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The
medical benefits provided in the organization are satisfactory.
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07
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The
retirement benefits available are sufficient
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08
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I am satisfied with the responsibility and role that I have in
my work
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09
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I
feel more motivated while participating in activities arranged by the
company.
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10
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I find opportunities for
advancement in this organization
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11
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I
get motivated on the fact that your valuable contribution/feedback is taken
into consideration by the management.
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12
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The
employees in the organization feel secured in their job.
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13
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In this organization there is
fair amount of team spirit.
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14
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The quality of the relationships
in the informal workgroup is quite important to me.
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15
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Visibility
with top management is important to me
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ANALYSIS FROM FINDINGS
From
the above findings we have seen that the company gives a greater attention in
motivating the employees. It has been found that majority of
the employees of The New India Assurance Co. Ltd are highly motivated and like
working at The New India Assurance Co. Ltd Thus it proves that the employee has to work hard
and achieve the goal set by the management. But this is a exception in case of
theory Y people , they are motivated but not fully. And these are the assets of
the firm .
The
relevant questionnaire reveals the motivation level the employee gets from the
management.
Employees
are motivated with the working conditions in the organisation; the medical
benefits provided to them,retirement benefits, the responsibility and role
given to them, they feel motivated in participating in the activities arranged
by the company as a result of which the quality of relationship in the informal
work is good. The employees are motivated with the aspect of the visibility of
the top management on them and feel they have opportunities of advancement for
them in the organisation. Also the strongest point is their Job Security and
Team Spirit. This is a very strong Motivational Point for all the employees in
the company. In fact the retention and sustainability is extremely important to
the company and hence there is less employee turnover, which results in
increase of efficiency at work.
The
current salary and the salary increment along are one of the reasons where the
employees feel less motivated. There are few breaks given to employee during
work and it’s very difficult for them to take leaves. And the employees are
quite neutral about getting a regular feedback.
CONCLUSION
1.
The employees share a very good relationship with
each other and are overall happy with their
work environment.
2.
The working environment plays a major part in the
productivity of the company. The company conducts recreation activities as a
stress realise for the employees (extracurricular activities and trips).
3.
The
management making the employee participate in the various activities is a good
way to involve them in team building which is necessary in the day to day
working of the organisation.
4.
Salary plays
a major part in the life cycle of an employee in any type of organisation. The
employee should be given adequate salary and the increment should be also done
on a regular basis.
5.
The company does give Feedback but not very
regularly. And they also want their feedbacks to be taken into consideration as
well .
RECOMMENDATIONS
AND SUGGESTIONS
On the above findings,
following recommendations can be given to the company for motivating the
employee.
1.
There should be increase in the salary
of the employees working in the organisation as they are dissatisfied with the
current salary drawn by them. Also, the increment needs to be done on a regular
basis i.e. on a quarter or half yearly basis rather than on yearly basis.
2. It’s not that a
regular feedback about the work of the employee is not done in the organisation.
But the management should pay little more attention in providing regular
feedback to the employees to make them happy and motivated in their work.
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