Prespectives on motivation: the thought and content process

"Compare and contrast (1) the content and (2) the thought process perspectives of motivation, using specific theories (other than Maslow's) to highlight the two perspectives. Motivation can be defined as a psychological process that leads to choice of behaviour resulting in some level of job performance, depending on the intensity, desire, energy generated by the individual (Blair 2002). In the workplace, employees are expected to perform an expected output, what makes employees perform to reach this goal is …showed first 75 words of 1729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1729 total…clear look at motivation and its implications on an individual and their workplace. Although motivation is a key element in performance it still needs to be connected with ability and working conditions must be taken into consideration to produce the desired performance. The extensive research that has been conducted on motivation has been extremely important to managers of organisations, as it helps managers and their subordinates to be motivated and perform to achieve its goal.