Summary:
Motivation is the mental thought that gives effort and a kind of capacity to every person. It is how people feels and act in order to reach a goal and how they do every single thing to become their expectance in a reality of life.
In order to understand the human motivation, there have been created some theories that explain why the motivation exists. The main theories say that the motivation explains the behavior of a person (why a person behaves of some way), also that motivation predicts behavior (how a person will behave with certain motivations) and that influences behavior.
As human beings each one has two kinds of needs in order to reach his goals and feel good with him, those are Internal needs and External needs. The first one was developed by two thinkers: Max Weber and Sigmund Freud. Max Weber said that the work was necessary to achieve satisfaction; and Sigmund Freud, who said that the motivation was part of the unconscious nature of the humans. The second one says that motivation is developed by his own interest and economy. Thos second way of motivation was developed by Adam Smith, who thought that human was motivated by his economic necessity and Frederick Taylor, he said that people acts in order to move from conflict to cooperation.
Some of the main motivational theories are:
1. Maslow’s Need Hierarchy:
2. Theory X and Y: Theory X explains the lower needs, it means that people dislike working and the only motivation is the economic remuneration and the security and the theory Y explains the higher needs, this is where the people like to work and the only motivation is his own satisfaction and achievement of commitments.
3. McClelland’s need theory: This theory says that there are three main needs for a worker, the achievement, in which the motivation is the challenge and feedback; the affiliation, in which the motivation is the cooperative and harmonious environment; and the power, in which the main motivation is the chance to manage others.
4. Expectancy theory: explained by Vroom (1932) in which he said that the motivation is the result of the effort, performance and reward.
We can say that motivation is a kind of motor that moves each person in order to reach their goals and feel alive. A company should be focused on this aspect, we can understand this like the second language of work because if his members are motivated, results would have a better quality.
Motivation is a variable which depends on the culture of every region and the way how the person was educated. Every person has different ways to feel the necessity of development but according to some specialists, external motivations are a kind of dangerous, because they don’t depend of each one and the day that this person doesn’t find a reason to do his job, his life is going to be stuck.
Question:
In multicultural organizational contexts what could be a good strategy to keep people motivated towards a common task?
A good strategy to keep people motivated into a multicultural organization could be to give recognition and remunerations which include their families and make them to feel part of a family. Motivation isn’t only to give them money (cash) but give them a trip with their families or some discount coupons.
I think the real problem nowadays is that companies don’t know how to motivate their members and the economy and capitalism have done they (The workers) just care about have more assets.
We need to change this thought and try to satisfy not only our pocket but our relations with others and the time we spend with family.
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