WORK MOTIVATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

ABSTRACT.In today's society and economy employees are well educated and relatively well off. This fact strongly influences the mechanisms of motivation. Therefore, today's managers have to use a large variety of motivational instruments. This text presents the most important mechanisms of motivation and their role at the modem workplace.JEL codes: J28Keywords: motivation; employee satisfaction; employee performance1. Introduction"Human Capital goes where it 's welcome and stays where it 's well treated. " Walter B. Wriston) (Walter 1919-2005, former CEO of Citybank/Citicorp)The market economy of a country is constantly moving and is subject to ongoing processes of change. The organizations, in turn, are forced to keep pace with these changes in order to remain competitive.At the same time, the increasing life standard largely influences human behavior, and underlies all processes conducted in major organizations. Globalization, declining birth rates in developed countries and other factors force managers to focus on the actual process of motivating their employees, which has become indispensable in achieving management performance. Motivation leads to self-realization of employees as a way of his or her optimal development and personal fulfillment.In early 2009, the Gallup Institute published a study on the motivation of German companies. This study is the result of a survey on a total of 1,900 employees. The survey was conducted in the months November and December 2008.These are the results of the Gallup Study: Approximately 90% of employees surveyed do not consider themselves as owing anything to their employer and the work at their workplace is strictly limited to following and performing the tasks defined by the management. Only 13% of workers do their duty diligently and identify with the company, 67% of staff are strictly limited to performing their necessary duties and avoid further efforts and voluntary activities.5% of all employees were found to be completely demotivated. Worrying is the fact that up to date these results have remained stable, with a negative impact on business. The main cause of employee motivation is desolate situation of their management, explained by the lack of professional competence of employees in positions of responsibility. This lack of qualification leads to inappropriate use of the work potential of employees and promoting their professional skills, a situation that leads to a clear result: DEMOTIVATION OF EMPLOYEES.Given that the success of an organization depends largely on human capital and its motivating factors, there is a need for an actual analysis on both motivating factors applied in most developed countries, and on the possibility of taking them into the motivation system of employees in Romania while taking into account the cultural specificities of the country.2. Definitions and Basic TheoriesIn the Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language (DEX 1998: 656) these "keywords" are described as follows:The increasing higher level of education of employees requires a behavior and training of managers to match it. Therefore, they must be able to manage and motivate employees, make them meet the requirements in terms of qualification and professional experience, attitude towards work and particularly high socio-cultural skills. But managers have not only the task of motivating employees in order to achieve the objectives set by the organization, but also of motivating employees in achieving their personal goals.Therefore, in the future career and income will play a major role. It is important for the employee to understand the meaning of the work activity, to identify itself with it, to perform their activity with passion, this being the guarantee for success. Passion can be defined as the founding element of commitment and performance.An important role is the symbiosis of three processes: recruitment, training and employees' keeping processes. …