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Motivation: An Internal Formula for Success

By: Kathreen Zamudio Babagay, MBA Student, Camarines Norte State College - Philippines

Motivation- is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs. Motivation is also one's direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior. An individual is not motivated by another individual. Motivation comes from within the individual. The success of an organization is in the hands of the management and employees, to achieve its vision, mission, goals, and objectives, motivation is needed to have a harmonious relationship among others, maintain the good quality service, and to become more productive, but the questions is how the management and employees keep themselves motivated.

To keep the employees motivated, the management should study or identify their behavior, what drives them to work, and needs as a person in all aspects of his life. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often shown in the shape of a pyramid: basic needs at the bottom and the most complex need (need for self-actualization) at the top. Maslow himself has never drawn a pyramid to describe these levels of our needs; but the pyramid has become the most known way to represent his hierarchy. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs summarizes the needs of an individual and will serve as a reference for the management in dealing with the employees.

Nowadays, most of the millennials focuses on what they can gain from the company instead of what they can contribute. They applied for a job to satisfy their physiological needs, they thought that as long as they have the job, well compensated, receiving other incentives and bonuses, and be able to provide for their families financially they will work hard. It means that being practical is important, however, if these things will be neglected the tendencies are, losing the determination to do more, discontentment, comparing their current state to other organization, and the worst to quit the job. From seniors in an organization or those who are experienced, they find their job satisfying when the management recognizes their efforts, commitment at work, freedom to share their experiences and learning acquired, support for personal and career development, being loved and respected, and most important is to trust them because it means that you value their capabilities and skills to do productively and efficiently.

Money is not really a great motivator, because just like its nature, if spent, the things you bought just satisfy the physical needs temporarily, but if our inner feelings feed up with more positivity, employees would value their work not just the rewards and incentives they get, but it is their commitment towards the job and how the management treats them, because as employee, we want to be heard, recognized and valued.

To maintain the harmonious relationship between the management and employees, proper communication is essential to keep everyone updated and informed on the latest organization operations so that they will be guided accordingly. Conclusion

An inner means in achieving success of an organization is when everybody working is motivated, because the spirit of peace and joy spread and it creates peaceful environment at workplace.

According to Lee Lacocca “The management is nothing more than motivating other people”, therefore, whether we belong to an organization or an ordinary individual let us try to be a source of motivation and inspiration, be a person who can share good impact to others, because the more motivated we become the more productive we can be. Life is not all about the material things or stuff we acquired but it is how we value others as we value ourselves, so keep motivated at all times.