Motivation: Meaning and Importance
As we know the most
important skill one has to acquaint is the ‘Motivation’. The term has its own
implications and advances. Generally, motivation is a force to inspire the
peoples with their willingness to complete the task.
The word
‘Motivation’ came from the ‘Latin’ root; ‘Movere’ which means ‘To Move’. It has
its own implications towards the individual, organization, business and even
for the nation.
Meaning:
“Motivation is
a process that accounts for an individual’s intensity, direction and
persistence of efforts towards achieving the target”.
There are three important combinations of the words in
the definition. Let’s discuss the meaning of each one.
Intensity: How hard a person tries. It mainly includes the ability towards the work.
Direction: Efforts
towards goal. It contains a way by which a person desire to attain the goal. It
must be specific and realistic in nature.
Persistence: How long to maintain his or her efforts. It
clearly implies motivation is not just to have all the resources in your arena,
the consistency of efforts matters the most.
Importance of Motivation:
Motivation is the
prominent feature or characteristics one has to possess. It has many important
attributes that are useful to carve the required future with concern to a human
being. Now, we discuss the Importance of Motivation with concern to five
different aspects or entities. It mainly includes an Individual, Employee,
Organization, Management and Nationwide.
Importance of Motivation for Individual:
1.
Need Satisfaction:
It mainly useful for satisfaction of need i.e. basic necessity of life. By
means of motivation one has to satisfy the Individual and Group need.
2.
Empower Learning:
As it is rightly quoted that ‘A good learner has many chances to become a good
Motivator’. Hence, continue learning impart required skills in an Individual.
3.
Self Discipline: Motivation is
imperative to promoted self discipline in an Individual. As self discipline is
crucial to maintain and regulate on self-stated principles and values.
4.
Individual Relations: Improvement
in relations are important task for an individual. Healthy relations pave a way to remain intact
with the organization, society.
5.
Behavior Change:
Motivation allows changing the behavior of an individual with an optimistic
way.
6.
Set Goals: It is important to
set goals and acquire requisite talents, skills to pursue the desired goal.
7.
Need for Achievement:
It is an individual’s desire for significant achievement of furnishing skills
and required efforts to attain the need. As, it is indeed important, to have aspirations
for excellence, performance standards and innovations.
8.
Healthy Life: By means of
motivation a person lives a healthy life. He has proven mastering over the
different problems and to maintain balance in critical circumstances.
9.
Resource: Here an individual act as a resource to many needy ones. He will empower
the living of many people by
positive influence.
10.
Focused Concentration:
To achieve the end results ones concentration has to be focused towards
achieving the target. Motivation act as helping hand to have focus in the
essential division. It also imparts to sort out priority things for an
individual.
11.
Sustain the Pressure: As a motivated person, individuals become calm
and have the risk-taking ability. He will prepare himself to sustain the pressure that occurred due to any
known or unknown things.
Importance of Motivation for Employee:
1. Increase in Performance: Due to motivation an employee in the organization
work effectively and he work with own obligations and responsibility towards
the company. Hence there is increase in
performance level for an employee.
2. Job Satisfaction: It is most
likely factor to impact the efficiency of employee. Here, Motivation improvises
the ability and willingness to maximize the potential.
3. Empower skills: It is helpful to impart certain required skills like
technical skills, human skills, analytical skills and, etc. It also useful to
have proper sound and thorough knowledge.
4. Human Relations: An employee can develop their relations with concern
to coordination among the team.
5. Communication: Helps to improve the flow of communication between
senior authority and employees. Here, both parties understand the need of each
other in an effective manner.
6. Psychological Advantage: As an enthusiastic person feels happy and comfortable
while doing the work. It creates a psychological advantage and a person feels
satisfaction against his work.
7. Positive Attitude: With concern to nature of person positive attitude
increases.
8. Accountability: Due to good performance employee is accountable to
the superior authority.
9. Up-gradation: It reflects on the advancement in the job.
Importance of Motivation for
Organization:
1. Employee Engagement: It involves allocation of task to the employee as per
their capability.
2. Increase in Productivity: When we meet the needs of various employee then
increase in productivity as a measure.
3. Productive Use of Resources: As the resources are limited one hence optimum
utilization of resources required from organization point of view.
4. Development of Leaders: Motivation imparts leadership skills to an individual.
It helps to influence other subordinates.
5. Proactive Workforce: The workforce is proactive in nature and sustains the
pressure if any during any circumstances.
6. Increase Organizations
Efficiency: When all
individual are satisfied with their job and work in an effective manner results
into increase in organizations efficiency.
7. Co-operation: A proper co-operation among the all department act as
required boost for an organization.
8. Increase in Output: As more effective work culture progress the output
from the organization also increases.
Importance of Motivation for Management:
1. Corrective Actions: Management ready to take corrective actions in
fluctuating circumstances for an organization.
2. Employee Loyalty: With effective nature of work employee are more loyal
and their retention is prolonged for a period of time.
3. Assistance in Directions: Motivation act as a facilitator for effective
directing. It is useful tool to give directions by inspiring the people.
4. Social Benefits: It imparts a healthy relationships between employees and
others. Also, provides social benefits with concern to the company image in the
mindset of others.
5. Adaptation: There should be resource adaptability with productive
functions for managing external environment.
6. Cost Cutting: As more stability for an employee minimizes the cost-cutting on Induction and Training with concern to recruitment.
7. Supportive Environment: Due to proper work environment and co-ordination all
employee acts as supportive to each other.
8. Reduction in Labour Problems: The cordial behaviour
may reduce the labour problems for the management.
Importance of Motivation for Business:
1.
Workforce Stability: Due
to attractive motivational measures employees are satisfied in the organization.
Hence, results in to full commitment and loyalty and stability also increased.
2.
Goals Achievement: In
a motivated organization all individual work as a team to achieve the goal.
They know that, by achieving the targets they get rewards.
3. Industrial
Relations: Good work
culture conditions lead to effective industrial relations for the business.
4.
Corporate Image: Business
offerings, products, the loyalty of customer results into the good corporate image.
When employees are satisfied then they have goodwill for business.
5.
Reduces Absenteeism:
When employees are motivated one they enjoy their work and there is sharp
reduction in their absenteeism.
6.
Increase in Morale and Values: With encouragement from industry the value of the business increases.
7.
Dynamic Business:
Here, a business may lead to dynamic diversification to their products and
services. It is a way to capture more segments in the market.
8.
Cope with New Advancement: It
is very easy for the business to cope with new advancement due to influencing
people, healthy conditions, encouragement, and job satisfaction.
Importance of Motivation for Nation:
1. Self Employment: With concern to Motivation yields a way to approach for
the option of self employment. It creates a way of employment for self, family
members and some near and dear ones.
2. Entrepreneur: By means of new innovations and creations one may opt
as entrepreneur. Here, an individual introduces something new to the market
with mutual benefits.
3. Per Capita Income: Timely inspiration results into increase into earning
and results with rising per capita income.
4. Standard of Living: As an individual of the country standard of living
also increases via proper motivation.
5. Regional Development: When a person start his or her business in the rural
area then regional development of the nearby premise could be possible.
6. Working Efficiency: As more number of people are satisfied with job, work
culture and other condition yields increase in working efficiency of the
country.
7. Resource Utilization: the people employ the resources available in ample
quantity. It gives a backward linkage required for raw material and act as a
connecting link for their development.
8. GDP: Overall impact is great to increase the Gross
Domestic Product for a Nation. It is helpful to have a positive impact on GDP
with increased motivation.
