Oct 25, 2009

Posted in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Productivity

Motivational Force



What drives an organization? Is it the people, the work, the clients or productivity, some may say its people who drive it, they are partially right to the extent that those people are highly motivated. Unless, there is motivational force guiding them to achieve the results there cannot be success or achievement in an organization. There are so many discourses happening here and there which helps employees to stay focus and be in tune with organizational needs, but only some of them really succeed, because there seminars and workshops can only guide or motivate you to do something on in your life, but its only up to you to implement or execute it in your daily activities and when you apply them correctly, can you really achieve success. We have often noticed how difficult it gets sometimes to convince someone to do something; they only get convinced if they find some motivating factor in doing that stuff.

Motivation is the real factor that drives an organization, its people plus motivation backing them that they give their 100% and achieve results. Big companies spend billions of dollars each year in arranging for workshops just to motivate them; the highly motivated employee will do his best no matter the peer pressure. Its well said and true, a person gets easily motivated to do a thing which is simple and easy going but lacks the same motivation to do a tedious task, now what can be done in such a scenario. They need to be aware of their surroundings, the current circumstances and why is there an urgent need to do that particular task if that sounds lengthy or tedious. Motivation is the hot topic of discussion always amongst the HR personnel of any company, because that is one of their main objectives. There are lots of factors in which the employees may get de-motivated and those reasons severely arise from the work pressure or the bias done or lack of support and awareness or lack of knowledge to do a particular task. Its difficult to know and find out the exact reason behind such type of behavior, the only that can be done is to motivate them in the best possible manner as it could be.

There are lots of people who criticize your actions about motivating people but that shouldn’t deter you from doing the right thing that will be beneficial to all other around you. I am going to share with you some tips that will help you motivate people easily without ever letting them know about your plans:

  1. Don’t alienate yourself, be in the center of the topic of discussion and keep getting back to the point by stressing on it over and over again.
  2. Don’t become too irritating to people by showing them extra pity inducing traits, be in a relaxed normal mood. Help people who really need some power.
  3. Avoid the use of negative language, support your employees or people in doing the task they have taken up.
  4. Make your work interesting by bringing in new stuff that people will enjoy. May whatever work you may be in to, its always important to make it more enjoyable, its work with play always that will let people glued to the task they are already doing.
  5. Get yourself associated with reputed people and set examples to follow, it may be either you, yourself or the person you are with. Stay in the mood of decency and motivate people indirectly. You become the person what you think yourself to be, most of the time.

These are the stuff I really wanted to share with you and the saga of motivation is endless especially for the organizations to work upon their employees’ weaknesses.

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