[Solution] Content Perspectives on Motivation
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Author: Sarah Bennett
What Factors Motivate Employees?
The content perspectives on employee motivation focus on employee needs. They ask: What workplace factors motivate people? Possible answers include higher pay, better working conditions, greater autonomy, and more responsibility.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Needs hierarchy approaches assume that people have needs and that these needs can be ranked by importance. In Abraham Maslow's hierarchy, there are five needs, and people meet them in order.
What are the key assumptions of needs hierarchy approaches to motivation?
- There are three key human needs, which can be ranked by importance.
- There are satisfiers and dissatisfiers, and people find satisfiers more important.
- People have personality traits, which can be ranked by importance.
- People have needs, which can be ranked by importance.
Identify the needs that each behavior tends to be directed toward:
Being successful as a manager
Making friends with coworkers
Assuming personal responsibility
According to the two-factor theory of motivation, which of the following are motivation factors that cause an employee to feel greater satisfaction at work? Check all that apply.
- Responsibility
- Recognition
- Safe working conditions
- Fair company policies
- Achievement
