Motivation

Motivation is thde driving force wich causes us to achieve goals, motivation an internal and external factors that estimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and commited to a job, role, or subject.

Today there are a lot of motivation theories, some more accepted than others.This theories are divided in internal theories, procces theories and external theories.

Internal Needs.

Max Weber: Protestan ethic: work as a mean to achieve salvation.

Sigmund Freud: Physcodynamic theory: Uncunscios nature,consider internal needs and external incentives.

 

  

External Incentives.

People are motivated by self interest of economic game.- Adam Smith.

How to move from conflict relationships to coperations- Federick Taylor.

Motivation in companies is promoted with economic recognitions, distincton, parties etc, but some scholars said that this is not enougth. There are some theories explaining this cases.

Maslows Need Hierarchy

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Theory X and Theory Y.

For Douglas McGregor, the X employees are lazy by nature and you have to threat them to make them work.The Theory Y employees are motivated by need, they want self-actualization

ERG Theory.

Workers pursue multiple need si simultaneously.

McClellands need Theory.

Individual's specific needs are acquired over time and are shaped by one's life experiences.

Two Factor Theory.

Motivation Factors: Phsycologicar growth

Hygine Factors: Avoidance of payne.

There are other theories as social exchangeand equitytheory, stacy adams theory of inequity and expectancy theory. All this theories have ideas ans topcs of how and what the persons or emplyees are motivated or dismotivated.

Question.

In multicultural organizational context what could be a good strategy to keep people motivated towards a common task?

 
In a multicultural orgnanization my strategy could be focus more in the employees as persons i will put a side the fact that they are from other culture and concentrate my attention in what are they needing inside the organizations to feel more confortable with him and with the others. This things can be support, capacitation money rewards but applied in common objectives, a group objective. And continuosly updating this objective to mantain the groups working and having something to achieve.

References.

Viorel, Lefter, Aurel Manolescu, Marinas Cristian Virgil, and Ramona Stefania Puia. "Employees Motivation Theories Developed at an International Level.." Economic Science Series. 18 (2009): 324-328. Print.