3.1 Motivation

UNIT 3: Employee Motivation

Author : Lutfi Mulyadi

Explain the process of motivation

There exist a series of motivation process: Unachieved motives and Needs, Stress, Effort or Behavior, desired results, and responses. Someone will get stimulated driving force searching for selected behavior realizing certain objectives to reduce the stress of unachieved needs. Internal stimuli as a result of lacked food and dehydration can activate unachieved needs. External stimuli based on the outside scene and commercial promotion can also activate them. There exist some kinds of stress in the process of motivation. The stress can be sociological, physical, and psychological. The stresses must be converted to behaviors by certain strong stimuli. Some behaviors to realize the objectives can be difficult to get more income. The effort to achieve the motives and needs can be performed by giving punishment and reward to accomplish the desired results. The responses are to improve, modify, or revise the necessary needs. Modification of money or other motivating factor and needs depends on how effectively the desired result is accomplished (Motivation, 2019).

      Does money motivate you? Why or why not?

Current research shows that prioritization of money as a factor of motivation differently depends on the category of the jobs, namely Truck Drivers, Nurses, Plant managers, doctors, social and healthcare assistants. The most important factor of motivation for nurses and the drivers is money, those for medical doctors, healthcare and social assistance is independent work, and those for the plant managers is the philosophy of the corporate (Laegaard, 2006). Concerning the above research and my own experience in social assistance for educational movement, money is not the most important factor of motivation. Because the needs to be a person whose existence is influential for the community as well as the independent work is the most important one. Money is always needed in all activities. We got money from the state-owned enterprises as a sponsor for our social work. But working as a social educational activist makes me happy to share the money with all people in the community even only a small amount of money for everyone. At least, this way can reduce everyone’s stress as an independent worker who wants to fulfill a small daily need.    

  How can today’s managers help employees who suffer from work stress?

Helping employees who suffer from stress during work is the responsibility of a manager. A situational leader is the most effective role model in my point of view. In a situation that needs to work hard, a manager should be able to motivate the employees by becoming a role model by showing how hard the work of a manager during the project. Not only does a manager give a direction but he also should give his own hands to help detail works of some employees which the manager can do. Of course, this can only be done after he makes sure all other employees not given assistance can do their works independently. Sometimes, employees suffer from stress because they can’t make good planning to finish the jobs, a manager should assist them in setting daily targets (Clarke, 2019) in such a way that every day the employees will have work-life balance.

4.    Offer suggestions on how you can maintain a good work-life balance. 

       To maintain work and life balance, we should give a balanced time slot for working and for doing spiritual and physical recreation together with family, neighbors, or even the public in the congregation. Thus in 24 hours, we should try to finish the daily work target in 8 hours. For the rest, we should optimize the time for our family and for praying as well. This is in a very ideal situation. In another situation which requires working hard and time-consuming, we should try doing activities in parallel. We can bring our family to the working area while we are still busy doing the projects. In the same situation, praying or spiritual and physical recreation can also be done everywhere in the working area as long as our hearts feel comfortable. We are the only ones who make ourselves happy.     

References

Motivation Process in Management and Organisational Behaviour. (2019, September 30). Retrieved from https://www.iedunote.com/motivation-process.

Laegaard, J., & Bendslev, M. (2006). Organizational Theory . Retrieved from Wright, D. (2013). The Myths and Realities of Teamwork. Bookboon.com.

Lauren, C. (2019, September 06). How Great Managers Can Help Reduce Stress in the Workplace. Retrieved from https://inside.6q.io/reduce-stress-in-the-workplace/