Basic Theories of Motivation and why people are motivated.docx (original) (raw)

In the fierce era of competition, organizations nowadays are more emphasizing on the management of Human Resources. Motivation; a key strategy in Human Resource Management has helped practitioners largely enough to subject the term "Motivation" for a discussion. Steers et al. (2004), asserted that employee motivation plays a vital role in the management field; both theoretically and practically. It is said that one of the important functions of human resource manager is to ensure job commitment at the workplace, which can only be achieved through motivation. The aim of this essay is to discuss basic theories of motivation and how people are motivated. In the same paper developments in thinking, the theories of need, expectancy and equity have been discussed.