motivated people are an prerequisite of every organisation and Organisation Behavior talks intensively about theories and importance of Motivation in a work place.

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2. Introduction
 motivation is the process of stimulating people to accomplish a certain goal.
 In context of organization it means encouraging co-workers to act or work in a
certain way to achieve goal.
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3. Components of motivation.
Motivation has 3 components:
 Motive: it refers to the cause or goal which stimulates
encouragement in workforce.
 Motivation: it is the process for activating stimulus and action
among people to attain a organizational goal.
 Motivator: these are the techniques used to impelment motivational
strategy in organizations like, bonus, salary hike, appreciation etc.
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4. Characteristics and importance of
motivation.
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 Internal feeling.
 Goal oriented.
 Leads to productivity in an organization.
 Fulfills both individual as well as organizational
goals.

5.  motivated employees tend to stay with an organization
for longer periods.
 Motivation increases regularity among employees.
 Motivation helps in resolving issues among employees.
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6. Maslow’s need hierarchy theory of
motivation
 Maslow’s theory of
motivation was based on
hierarchy of human needs
and.
 motivation level is
related to satisfaction
level of needs.
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7. Herzberg’s two factor theory 7

8. ‘X’ and ‘Y’ theories of motivation.
Douglas McGregor states in his theory that managers have two opposite
views about their employees known as theory ‘X’ in which is negative in
nature and second is ‘Y’ which managers perceives positive aspects of
employees.
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9. Methods and strategies to motivate
employees in organization.
 Job designing.
 Recognition.
 Employee participation.
 Career advancement and perks.
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