Motives for Work

seek employment, they are likely to be motivated by needs for money and a secure job. But once these needs are largely met through holding the job, they will seek to fulfil their higher needs i.e. levels 3-5 of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. People who are at the top stages of the hierarchy tend to have a higher wage, people at the bottom who are satisfying their physiological need and security needs tend to be paid around the minimum wage, these tend to be jobs with where no high skills are needed. These are usually jobs in the service sector. Maslow's hierarchy of needs helps us to understand that people are motivated to do things that will satisfy their needs. Maslow looked at the individual needs without direct consideration of the organisation of the firm. A possible weakness of Maslow's theory is that it only addressed the psychological behaviour of the employee not the practical behaviour such as the achievement and recognition
             Frederick Hertzberg provided our first look at the organisational motivation and job satisfaction. According to Hertzberg, we cannot we cannot deal with motivation on an individual scale but must look at it in a wider scale like look at the organisation. He maintained that there are 2 factors that influence motivation.
             The are those that can maintain employee satisfaction, they include; -
             · Interpersonal considerations
             They are those factors that cause an employee to demonstrate a good attitude and make results. They include
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