HR Practice For Payroll Practitioners

HR Practice for Payroll Practitioners

What motivates employees?

To understand the best type of reward to provide an employee, it is important to understand what motivates an employee in the first place. Without doing this, the employer can gain no benefit and the desired behaviour and performance will not come from the employee.

What Is motivation?

Definition

“It is a process where a manager induces employees to complete work assigned to them to achieve business objectives while at the same time the employee satisfies their own personal needs.”

In a nutshell:

“Employees work because the outcome of work will meet their own aims.”

For example

A manager may work extra hours in their position not for extra monetary reward but for the recognition it may bring from colleagues.

A basic model of motivation

A classical view of this type of model is called goal-directed behaviour .

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