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Many businesses today strive to uncover motivating factors that will help them achieve success with in their industry. There are many things to consider when motivating employees, a good analogy is the one that says you can lead a horse to water but you can not force the horse to drink. If we look at this analogy we can compare it to the fact that you can give a person a job but you can not make him perform a certain way. This is why many companies and managers in general turn to motivation to boost enthusiasm with in the workforce. Motivation represents "those psychological processes that cause the arousal, direction, and persistence of voluntary actions that are goal directed." (Kreitner & Kinick, pg. 236) There are many theories regarding motivation and within this essay I will analyze Maslow's Need Hierarchy theory, Vroom's Expectancy theory as well as motivation through the Goal setting theory. It is important to understand these theories and their implications for me to accurately manage motivation within my own work context which I will further address in this essay.
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, there are five classes, First physiological needs which include food, drink, sex and sensory satisfaction. Second are the safety needs which motivate people to avoid danger, third are what he calls love needs, the need to feel like you belong or feel loved. Fourth are esteem needs that look at status prestige and appreciation and lastly at the top of the hierarchy are self-actualization needs, the need to become everything that one is capable of becoming. (Watson, 106) Each lower level need must be satisfied before an individual experiences higher level needs. Maslow hypot ...