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What is the importance of motivation to employees

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-First, motivated employee’s are always looking for better ways to do a job. When people actively seek new ways of doing things, they usually find them. It is the responsibility of managers to make employees look for better ways of doing jobs.
-Second, a motivated employee generally is more quality oriented. The organization benefits, because individuals, in and outside the organization see the enterprise as quality conscious. A clear understanding of the way motivation works helps a manager make his employees quality oriented.
-Third, highly motivated workers are more productive than apathetic workers. The high productivity of Japanese workers is attributable mainly to motivation.
-Fourth, every organization requires human resources, in addition to the need for financial and physical resources for it to function. Three behavioural dimensions of human resources are significant to the organization:
i. People must be attracted not only to join the organization but also to remain in it.
ii. People must perform the tasks for which they are hired and must do so in a dependable manner.
iii. People must go beyond this dependable role performance and engage in some form of creative, spontaneous and innovative behaviour at work.
-Fifth, motivation as a concept represents a highly complex phenomenon that affects, and is affected by a multitude of factors in the organization. A comprehensive understanding of the way in which organization functions requires that, increasing attention be directed towards the question of why people behave as they do on their jobs.
-Sixth, yet another reason why increasing attention is paid towards motivation can be found in the present and future technology required for production. As technology increases in complexity, machines tend to become necessary yet insufficient vehicles of effective and efficient operations.
-Seventh, while organizations have for some time viewed their financial and physical resources from a long- term perspective, only recently they have begun seriously to apply this same perspective to their human resources. Many organizations are now beginning to pay increasing attention to developing their employees as future resources (talent bank) upon which they can draw as they grow and develop. Finally, attention paid to motivation by our managers speaks about its importance in management of human resources.

Titany answered the question on September 7, 2021 at 13:22

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