Motivation
03.21.09
The most common view of motivation is that human beings are rational animals motivated by money and other material rewards. And for many people in different situations, money is important. However, some people place greater value on social approval, prestige, and status than on money. This view of man as a social being emphasizes that man is governed more by the informal organization’s logic of sentiments than by the formal organization’s logic efficiency. More recently, behavioral scientists have found that high employee morale does not necessarily result in greater productivity and that man’s motivations are vastly more complex than can be explained in economic or social terms alone. Many theorist and managers now believe that the psychological contact but for self esteem, autonomy, and self-actualization.
Different people want and need different things in different situations at different times. In the job situation, the worker may be seeking satisfaction for his material need his social needs, his needs for self esteem, respect from others, and self fulfillment.
But work is also a major means of dealing with our fears, worries,and anxieties. work enables all of us to keep a lid on the id. It acts as a pressure release. because work binds the individual to reality, the loss of work can become a loss of structure upon which our physical health and psychological balance depend.