Improving Company Moral and Employee Motivation

Company Moral and Employee Improving Motivation

Happy employees are productive employees—those who stay for years, turn into leaders and help your company flourish over time. The key to happiness and productivity at work is using employee motivation to inspire your team to do their best.

When we talk about motivation at work, there are two terms most often throw around: Employee motivation and company morale. Both are crucial to your organization’s long-term success, but they mean different things, with one influencing the other.

Employee motivation is simply what causes employees to pursue their work. It’s what makes them—and you—act in a specific way (Your Article Library, 2019)

What is Company Morale?

Company morale is defined as how employees feel about their workplace. This includes feelings about their manager, their long-term role within the organization, their benefits package or the overall company culture (Your Article Library, 2019) The Theory of Employee Motivation

There are two scientific theories of employee motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic.

Extrinsic motivation is whatever external factor causes an employee to complete a task. In most offices this is pretty simple, boiling down to punishments and rewards. A punishment might be getting fired because you didn’t do your job. A reward includes things like getting paid for your time or receiving a promotion for a job well done.

Keep in mind, simply getting paid to do a job is often not enough to really motivate employees to excel, despite what many organizations think. That’s where intrinsic motivation comes in.

Intrinsic motivation, however, comes from within and doesn’t rely on immediate gratification provided by a manager. Employees are intrinsically motivated by the work itself. For that to happen the work must be fun, fulfilling or tied to a higher goal that resonates with that employee’s values or desires.

This type of motivation is usually more effective than extrinsic, primarily because a person’s own desires are more powerful than the desires of those around them. However, intrinsic motivation is harder to control and facilitate—but we’ll talk more about that below. 

Methods of motivation of Employee

Celebrate employee accomplishments

Encourage team bonding

Reward employees when the company performs well

Give autonomy

Support their long-term career goals

When it comes to the conclusion motivated employees are asset to the any organizations, they are working as loyal staff members to the organization which impact win win situation to the both factors there for management should initiate to take every attempt to create motivated team to win competitive edge.

References

Your Article Library. (2019). Evolution and Development of Human Resource Management (HRM). [online] Available at: http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/hrm/evolution-and-development-of-human-resource-management-hrm/35234 [Accessed 1 Jan. 2019].

Your Article Library. (2019). Evolution and Development of Human Resource Management (HRM). [online] Available at: http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/hrm/evolution-and-development-of-human-resource-management-hrm/35234 [Accessed 1 Jan. 2019].