How do your needs affect your motivation to do well in life

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Homework: Workplace Motivation

Overview

A 2014 study by Judge and Papata found that all personality traits are more predictive of job performance when the work was performed in an unstructured environment where employees have the freedom to make personal choices. In addition, the study found that employees' traits also indicated how they would act in a situation because of those same traits.

According to MacRae, Furnham, and Reed (2018), there are two types of motivation that influence employees, intrinsic and extrinsic. As you likely know, intrinsic motivation comes from that which drives people from within. We are motivated by things like the norms held by our families and by the communities in which we live. For example, if you received many awards for your achievements as you grew up, you may now be motivated toward activities for which you can earn rewards in your adult work.

The second form of motivation, extrinsic, is external. MacRae, Furnham, and Reed (2019) gave several excellent examples of extrinsic motivation factors that include a good salary, steady job, access to medical and other insurance, safe workplaces, and paid time off. These factors are important to every employee, with some more so than others, because all workers have different needs. These factors motivate workers to perform their jobs well so that they keep receiving these rewards.

The intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors employees have is what molds them into who they are as individual employees.

Understanding the role of motivation and attitudes at work is important to understanding why people do what they do (or do not do). It is important to consider the level of accountability at individual, companywide, or nationwide levels to manage performance and ensure ethical conduct takes place. The same is true of understanding all factors of motivating people at work and understanding motives and attitudes.

MacRae, I., Furnham, A., & Reed, M. (2018). Chapter 12: Motivators and attitudes. In High potential: how to spot, manage and develop talented people at work, (2nd ed.). [Books24x7 version]. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Task

In Module, you learned about personality characteristics and how those characteristics affected your behaviors as an employee (and in life in general). In the Module SLP homework, you will take another test, but this one is about what motivates you. Take the test at this site (or another site of your choice, or do both tests for comparison of results):

Test

For this SLP homework, after completing the test about what motivates you, address the following questions related to topics covered in this Module in a paper that is 2-3 pages, not counting the cover and reference list pages. Note that when the homework calls for a submission of 2-3 pages, the professor is hoping for three pages but is willing to accept two full pages.

Question I. What are your top three most important needs, according to the test?
Question II. How do you satisfy these needs?
Question III. Are your needs the same at home as they are at work?
Question IV. How do your needs affect your motivation to do well in life?
Question V. What motivates you to get up every day and go to work?

Then, meet with someone who knows you well: your best friend, a trusted manager, or a coworker, and discuss the results of your motivation test. Write about the results of your personality test and your answers to the above five questions.

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