This document discusses motivation in the workplace and its importance. It defines motivation as the force that drives people to complete tasks based on satisfying individual needs. Business managers must understand motivation and its effects on business performance. Motivation depends on leadership, clear expectations and goals, organizational structure, feedback, career opportunities, relationships, and rewards. The business owner is responsible for establishing motivation strategies to achieve corporate goals. Proper motivation leads to high employee performance.

1. Motivation

2. Introduction
 Many business managers
today are not aware of the
effects that motivation can
(and does) have on their
business, and it is therefore
important they learn and
understand the factors that
determine positive
motivation in the workplace.
 Motivation is something that
is approached differently by
different business and the
responsibility of its
integration lies with all
immediate supervisors of
staff. However, it is the
business owner who must
initiate motivation as a
strategy to attain corporate
goals.

3. Meaning
What is Motivation….?
 Motivation is the force that makes us do things:

This is a result of our individual needs being satisfied
so that we have inspiration to complete the task.
 These needs vary from person to person as everybody
has their individual needs to motivate themselves.

Depending on how motivated we are, it may further
determine the effort we put into our work and therefore
increase the standard of the output.

4. Importance
Leadership Skills
Job Importance
Job Expectations
Organizational Structure
Rules And Regulations

5. Importance
 Career Opportunities
Regular Feedback And Dialogue With Superiors
Good Working Relationships With Peers, Superiors
And Subordinates
Perceptions Of The Ethos And Values Of Your
Organization
Rewards

6. Leadership
 The role is to influence
and encourage your
employees to focus their
actions towards the
accomplishment of the
goals you have set for
your organization.
A clear vision
for your
organization
and its mission
Excellent
interpersonal
skills.
Clearly set
goals that
translate that
vision and
mission.
The willingness
to demonstrate
effort, especially
when dealing
with difficult
tasks.

7. Job Important
Take time to communicate the
importance of the role and
importance of each employee
contribution in the achievement of
the goals of your organization.
Your employees will
give the best of
themselves when they
feel their contribution
as being important.

8. Job Expectation
Do a brainstorm of all the tasks/processes that
have to be carried out.
Assess the time each task takes to be perfectly
accomplished.
Group all sequential tasks and those requiring
similar skills, as much as possible together.
Share the tasks among your employees.
Ensure that you distribute the tasks according
to the skills of your employees while
distributing tasks.

9. Organizational Structure
Each of your employees know how they relate
to each other and who the person to whom they
report to and they go to for solving problems
they cannot handle on their own.
Rules and Regulation
Entrusted their
livelihood in
safe hands
Security
to
Employees

10. Career Opportunities
Better
Motivated
Opportunities To
Learn To Do More
And More Complex
Tasks
Build Their Self-esteem
And Enable Them To
Climb The Social Ladder.

11. Feedback
Giving your employees regular feedback and the
possibility to dialogue with you or with your
supervisor make your employees feel they are
cared for and their contribution as worthy.
Again this boosts their self worth and has
a direct incidence on their commitment
and performance.

12. Good working relationships
 Good working relationships with peers,
superiors and subordinates
A healthy working relationship
with others is brought about by
perceived fairness in tasks
distribution-load and
complexity-and
remuneration/benefits.
Bringing
motivation
in work
place

13. Rewards
 When you offer attractive salaries/commissions
and bonuses.
You will attract the best employees in the
marketplace when you recruit, because you
will have a good reputation.
You will have highly motivated
employees.
You will have high performance.

14. Conclusion
To sum up,
 your values,
 your attitude and
 how you plan,
 organize,
 lead and reward your employees
It has direct incidence in motivation in the workplace
and directly impacts the performance of the team you
lead.