Motivation in public Sector

Motivation in Public Sector

Introduction

Motivation is a driving Force which arises in an individual and for doing something. It forces a person for achieving his desires and goals. It also defined as psychological behavior for taking an action. For example, if someone to eat then he has the feeling of hunger. Hunger motivates him for eating. There are two types of Motivational Behavior.

Intrinsic Behavior

It is defined as a behavior of a person in which internal motivation comes and force a person internally for doing an act.

Extrinsic Behavior

There are some external factors which are motivating an individual for doing a particular thing. This type of motivation is called as an external motivation.

Importance of motivation

Motivation is very important in all aspects of life. It is also important for public sector motivation in the work place. It is important because

It effects employees performance and help them in career progress

Employees are performing their jobs efficiently and effectively by motivation

It tells about motivation of employee in Public sector.

The motivation is important; it is illustrating through this formula

Performance = Ability x Understanding of the task x Motivation x Environment.

It means that motivation comes only when there is a good environment of work place, an individual can understand the work, he has the ability to perform job and finally he should have the motivation factor. These all factors can bring a very good performance.

Motivational Theories and Factors

There are a lot of theories and factors which are motivating an employee towards job. These theories are as follows.

Needs Theory

Earlier, motivation is defined as a tool for fulfilling basic needs. It includes Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of needs theory. In this theory, he has described various factors which can give inner satisfaction to an individual. He has arranged these factors in ascending order. These include psychological, security, belongingness, self esteem and self actualization. He said that an employee should need all these characteristics for motivation. It can help managers in providing their employees with all these factors for motivation. But researchers said that there are some limitations of the Maslow's theory so they have developed various other theories for removing his deficiencies. These theories include ERG Theory, Two-factor Theory and many others. They have worked for the employee motivation and explain these theories in terms of employee motivation (Anderfuhren-Biget et al., 2010).

Cognitive theories

VIE theories

VIE analyzes the motivation need in the work environment. It is better to focus on the VIE ...