All of us have our own goal to achieve in our life and goal can be categorized into several type such as life goal, financial goal, educational goal and so on. In order to achieve our goal, we as a human need something as a support to make it. Undoubtedly, it is motivation. Motivation is something that can energize and inspire us to go the extra mile in finding solution to solve the difficulties. So today I wanna introduce a motivational theory that usually used by big company to inspire their employee to work harder. It is Maslow motivation theory. This theory mention that manager or director should try to understand the needs of employee and try to meet their need in order to motivate them to work harder.
The needs of the employee can be divided into 5 category:
Physiological needs refer to the basic needs of human such as food, cloth, accommodation that need to be meet in order to survive. Exactly, try to imagine that could employee increase their efficiency if they don't have enough nutrition and protein. Obviously, the answer is no right? And I think this is the main reason why all of us need to work is to meet our basic needs. For directors, they can give sufficient salary or extra bonus to employee in order to ensure they don't have any problem in meeting their basic needs. Apart from that, directors also can provide accommodation to employee who live far from the company. This can shorten the travel distances between employee and company and this will lessen the financial burden of employee.
Safety needs refer to the needs of protecting themselves from the injuries, accident, job security and future. The safety could be personal security, financial security, good health and protection from harm. I am convinced that all of us want to work in the environment which is safe, peaceful and clean instead of hazardous, noisy and dirty right? As a director, they can make sure the working place is always clean by hiring several cleaner and also they have to maintain the peace of the working place. Moreover, they also have to make sure that all the employees are given the insurance protection, secure compensation and job security, especially in in a bad economy.
Social needs also define as love and belongingness needs and it refer to the personal needs of accepted by others and cared by others in the working place. Everyone of us need several true friends who know and care about us and this is the reason why social needs is very important for us. We all know that depression and stress are unavoidable in working and this is the reason why we need friend because we can speak out the problem that we have and could be helped by others. It also help to decrease our psychological burden. As a director, they can allocate employees into several group to make sure they work as a team in doing their task and this will enhance the spirit of teamwork in employees. Furthermore, director should be fair and square in assigning task and jobs to employees in order to avoid conflict happens among employees.
Esteem needs refer to the needs of being cherished, respected and given status by others depend on the effort that employees have payed off. How will you feel if your employer didn't recognize your effort even though you have worked hard. Undoubtedly, we will feel disappointed right? All of us need to be praised and respected because human need to sense that they are valued and by others and feel that they are making contribution to the world. So director and manager they can offer praise and recognition to the employees who did well. Besides that, they can also offer promotion and additional responsibility to employees to show their belief in employees. Or maybe they can provide learning opportunity to employees who want to further their study in respective field.
Self-actualization needs refer to the needs of using all the potential they have to achieve their goals. This needs also related to the desire to accomplish everything they can by using their own potential and creativity. According to Maslow, self-actualization also described as the full use and exploitation of talents, capability and potentialities. So, as a director or manager they can provide some challenging task to employee and give the right and flexibility to employee in solving the task without any limitation. In additional, they also can invite employee to participate in in decision making in a project and try to accept the idea that provided by them.
Thus, these are the five needs that mention in Maslow motivation theory. Actually, except from Maslow motivation theory there are still other theory used by company in motivating their stuff such as Herzberg motivation theory, McGregor motivation theory and McClelland motivation theory. Each of these four theory describe different kind of motivation needed by employee. If you are interested maybe I could share in next blog. So it is important to remind that don't forget to find your own motivation whether it is internal or external before we start hustling.
Yes to all of these! You can't do anything with passion behind it, I believe. And surrounding yourself with the right people is so important! You need those like minded people to lift you up and support you!
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