This document discusses motivation and its key aspects. Motivation is defined as the driving force that causes humans to achieve their goals. There are two main types of motivation - intrinsic motivation that comes from within, such as enjoyment or satisfaction, and extrinsic motivation from external factors like rewards or praise. The motivation process involves an unsatisfied need causing tension and drives to engage in search behaviors to satisfy that need. Factors like challenging work, recognition and responsibility can provide positive motivation. Self-motivation involves being driven, focused, and open to learning without being manipulated.

1. MOTIVATION

2. The power and ability to succeed is in all of us, all it
takes is the motivation to get something happening.
Motivation is the act or process of stimulating to
action or providing an incentive or motive, especially
for an act.
The verb, "motivate" is believed to have been taken
from the French word, "motiver" and the German
word, "motivieren.”

3.  In simple words ‘motivation is nothing but the
driving force by which humans achieve their goals’.
Motivation is present in every life function.
In Simple acts such as eating are motivated by
hunger. Education is motivated by desire for
knowledge.

4. Objective of Motivation :
The objective of motivation process is to know as to
where from does it starts and where does it end.
This is a work that cannot be finished at one go.
 It is a combination of various steps.
Robbins and Coulter have presented the following
‘Need-satisfying Process’:

5. Unsatisfied
Need:
Tension
Drives
Search
Behaviour
Need
Satisfied

6. (1) Unsatisfied Need:
At the first step of motivation a person feels the need of
something or there is a feeling that he lacks something.
(2) Tension:
The person concerned gets tensed at the very idea of his need
not being satisfied.
(3) Drives:
At this step the person concerned endeavors to fulfill his need.
The fulfillment of need depends on the direction and intensity of
the drive.

7. (4) Search Behaviour:
At this step, a person tries to discover different Options to fulfill
his need. He puts the best option into operation.
(5) Need Satisfied:
If the option really happens to be a correct one, satisfaction is
obtained.

9. There are two main kinds of motivation :
 Intrinsic and Extrinsic.
 Intrinsic motivation is internal. It occurs
when people are compelled to do something
out of pleasure, importance, or desire.
Achievement, advancement, recognition, g
rowth, responsibility, and job nature are
internal motivators.

10. Extrinsic motivation occurs when external
factors compel the person to do something.
 In other words: Motivation comes from two
things; you, and other people. There is
extrinsic motivation, which comes from
others, and intrinsic motivation, which
comes from within you.

11. Rewards can also be organized as extrinsic or
intrinsic.
Extrinsic rewards are external to the
person; for example, praise or money.
Intrinsic rewards are internal to the person; for
example, satisfaction or a feeling of
accomplishment.

12. Students are likely to be intrinsically motivated
if they :
 attribute their educational results to internal
factors that they can control (e.g. the amount of
effort they put in).
 believe they can be effective agents in reaching
desired goals (i.e., the results are not
determined by luck).
 are interested in mastering a topic, rather than
just rote-learning to achieve good grades.

14. Motivatrs (e.g. challenging
work, recognition, responsibility) which give positive
satisfaction.
Motivation as a general concept can be classified in
function of numerous factors.
 However, the factors that discussed here are the ones
regarding self motivation or motivation achieved by
other people.

15. Self-Motivation
Being self-motivated means being ready for
driven, focused discussion and behavior. It
also means being sharp and smart enough
not to be manipulated and to be open to
positive learning. Being in this state of mind is
the challenge!

17. Be confident
Be clear
Work on yourself
Take criticism positively
Look out for challenges
Be persistent
Keep dreaming.

18.  Here is a simple question- "Why are you
going to college?" The answer is given usually
in terms of "motivation". You are going to the
educational institution because you want to
learn something or you need a college degree
let a good job or it is a suitable place to make
friends.

19.  You are a student in the college because you
think it is expected of you, and one of your
goals is to conform to what is expected.

21. Motivation is the set of reasons that
determines one to engage in a particular
behavior.
Internal and External factors that stimulate
desire and energy in people to be continually
interested and committed to a job, role or
subject, or to make an effort to attain a goal.