Managers should positively reinforce employee behaviors that lead to positive outcomes. Managers should negatively reinforce employee behavior that leads to negative outcomes. Defined Many contemporary authors have also defined the concept of motivation. For this paper, motivation is operationally defined as the inner force that drives individuals to accomplish personal and organizational goals. Motivated employees are needed in our rapidly changing workplaces.
Motivated employees help organizations survive.
Motivated employees are more productive. To be effective, managers need to understand what motivates employees within the context of the roles they perform. Of all the functions a manager performs, motivating employees is arguably the most complex. Also, as employees get older, interesting work becomes more of a motivator. The purpose of this study was to describe the importance of certain factors in motivating employees at the Piketon Research and Extension Center and Enterprise Center.