Categories: Human Resource

Motivational Psychology

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">A person’s achievement may fall far short of his ability&period; The college teacher will readily think of students with A-grade ability but C-grade achievement&comma; and it is also true in athletics or dramatics that some persons who seem to have plenty of ability are very disappointing in actual performance&period; They are not interested in an activity&comma; or they have taken a personal dislike to the teacher or director or to their fellow performers&comma; or perhaps they simply have not the energy to carry all the activities they have undertaken&period; What they lack is not the ability&comma; but &OpenCurlyQuote;motivation’&period; And so this discipline of psychology deals with everything about the motives&comma; &lpar;origin&comma; development&comma; types etc&rpar;&comma; how they are classified and how motivation of work is exercised amongst individuals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Motive&comma; is a set which predisposes the individual for certain activities and for seeking certain goals and they develop within an individual through maturation&comma; exercise and learning&period; The organism is so equipped as to guarantee the learning and carrying out of certain activities essential for survival of the individual and the race&period; The equipment includes a persistent stimulus&comma; increased general activity&comma; and reinforcement of successful acts&period; The unlearned motives&comma; for which our motor nerves are responsible for taking the prompt necessary action&comma; can become more shaped and specific due to&colon; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• A persistent stimulus which we feel as the sensation of hunger&comma; thirst&comma; pain etc&period; These sensations have an impulsive or motivating quality&period; <br &sol;>• An increase in the amount and vigor of general activity&period; The more active the individual&comma; the more likely he is to discover some way to satisfy the motive and terminate the unpleasant stimulus&period; <br &sol;>•&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Reinforcement of any act which brings satisfaction if the motive&period; By this means the successful activity is confirmed and on future occasion will be aroused by the motivating stimulus&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In the following list of outstanding human motives&comma; the attempt is made to discover the fundamental aims and to show how each one is modified through learning&period; The motives are divided into three main classes&period; There are &lpar;1&rpar; motives which depend on internal bodily states&semi; these are the &OpenCurlyQuote;organic needs’&period; Other motives depend on the individual’s relations to the environment&comma; and are subdivided into two classes&period; There are &lpar;2&rpar; the emergency motives&comma; aroused when the environmental situation requires quick and vigorous action&period; And there are &lpar;3&rpar; the objective motives&comma; directed towards effective dealing with the objects and persons in the environment&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Specific suggestions for improving motivation in practical situations of work and play are&colon; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">a&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Avoid negative and disparaging suggestions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">b&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Arrange competitive situations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">c&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Establish intermediate goals in tasks that have only distant goals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">d&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Encourage self-competition by making available the results of each trial&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">e&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Get the individual or group to discuss and set their level of aspiration themselves&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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