Motivating Employees
While working as a manager in an organization, his job is to make sure that the employees are doing their jobs and they are doing it in the most productive way. But employees are not machines that we could just program their task in their brain and they will do it automatically, they require motivation to actually do their job properly. This is easier said then done, to understand the ways of motivating people we first need to understand human nature, which is the fundamental nature and substance of humans (wikipedia, human nature). Various philosophers have come out with different theories trying to explain the human nature and how to motivate them. These philosophers include Douglas Mcgregor with his "Theory X, Theory Y", and then there is Frederick Herzberg with the "two factor motivation hygiene theory". Next would be Abraham Maslow with the "hierarchy of needs", then there is David McClelland and the "achievement motivation". Lastly there is "Equity Theory" by John Stacy Adams.......
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