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The Influence Of Job Motivation On The Psychological Well Being Of Employees
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1.9 Motivation and Job Performance
According to Butkus
& Green (1999), motivation is derived from the word “motivateâ€,
means to move, push or persuade to vet for satisfying a need. ‘Baron
(1983) defined motivation in his own right. He says that “motivation is a
set of processes concerned with a kid of force that energizes behavior
and directs it towards achieving some specific goals. According to
Creech (1995) motivation is typically defined by psychologists as a
stimulation that causes the creation of aroused sustained and directed
behavior. This behavior in turn leads individuals to work and perform
towards goal achievement Kreitner (1995) has defined motivation as the
psychological prices that results to a directional and purposeful
behavior. Motivation is also defined as the tendency to behave in an
appropriate manner to attain certain needs (Buford, Bedeian & Indner
1995).
Many writers have expressed motivation is a goal directed
behavior. This objective nature of motivation is also suggested by
Kreitner & Kinicki (2001, P. 162) put forward that motivation
represents “those psychological processes that cause the stimulation,
persistence, of voluntary actions that are goal directed.
In another
term, a motivated person has the awareness of specific goals must be
achieved in specific ways, therefore he/she directs its efforts to
achieve such goals (Nel et al. 2001) It means that a motivated person is
best fit for the goals that he/she wants to achieve as he/she is fully
aware of its assumptions. Therefore if the role of managers are assumed
to successfully guide employees towards the organizational agendas of
achieving its objectives, then it is very important for them to educate
and understand those psychological processes and undertakings that root
cause the stimulation, direction of destination, determination and
persistence of voluntary actions (Roberts,2005).
On reaching the
understanding and believing that people (employees) are naturally
motivated, an organization simply provide the environment for their
motivation to be enhanced and improved (Baron,1983). It means that an
organization is the better environment and working atmosphere provider,
it only needs to believe that the people have the motivational behavior.
The
achievements of individuals and organizational goals are independent
process linked by employee-work motivation. Individuals motivate
themselves to satisfy their personal goals, therefore they invest and
direct their efforts for the achievements of organizational objectives
to meet with their personal goals also. It means that organizational
goals are directly proportion to the personal goals of individuals.
Robert
(2005) reported that the managers job, is to ensure the work done
through employees is possible, if the employees are self motivated
towards work rather directed. The managers involvement is not so much
important in the motivation of employees. The employees should motivate
themselves to work hard. The major issue in all service organizations is
the motivation of employees whether, they are skilled or unskilled or
professionals. Employee motivation is also a major issue for the
commercial banks. It is a today’s challenge for the management in this
competitive world to motivate employees to offer efficient and good
services that customers expect for. The employee’s motivation, their
enthusiastic and energetic behavior towards task fulfillment play key
role in successes of an organization to benefit (Cheng, 1995).
According
to Petcharak (2002), one of the functions of human resource manager is
related to ensure employee’s work place motivation. The human resource
manager’s function should be to assist the general manager in keeping
the employees satisfied with their jobs. Another goal in organization is
the goal of the service manager is to develop motivated employee’s and
encourage their morale regarding their respective works. The employee
work morale, such as supervisors, peers, organization and work
environment can be defined in a sense that the employee live the feeling
and be conscious about all aspects of the job. The performance is poor
if the employee is not satisfied and happy. Work place dissatisfaction
often leads organization and its employee’s poor performance.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examines the influence of Job motivation on the Psychological well being of employees amongst school teachers of some selected schools and staff of Daar communication Alagbado Lagos. The knowledge derived from this study was used to test the three hypotheses.The findings of the test led to the rejection of the hypothesis that job motivation would influence the psychological well being of employees, no direct relationship was found between motivation and psychological well being. The re ... Continue reading---
