Why is motivation important for performance?

1) Improves Performance Level:

The ability to do work and willingness to do work both affect the efficiency of a person. The ability to do work is obtained with the help of education and training and willingness to do work is obtained with the help of motivation.

Willingness is more important in comparison to ability. For example, a person is highly educated and he is recruited on this very basis. But it is not essential that he will do outstanding work.

He shall have to be motivated to do good work. This is possible only through

Motivation. Therefore, motivation improves efficiency. The efficiency of a

 Person is reflected through increase in productivity and decrease in costs.

2) Helps to Change Negative or Indifferent Attitudes of Employees:

Some employees of an organisation have a negative attitude. They always think that doing more work will not bring any credit. A Mentor uses various techniques to change this attitude.

3) Reduction in Employee Turnover:

The reputation of an organisation is affected by the employee turnover. This creates a lot of problems for the managers. A lot of time and money go waste in repeatedly recruiting employees and giving them education and training.

Only motivation can save an organisation from such wastage. Motivated people work for a longer time in the organisation and there is a decline in the rate of turnover.

4) Leads to stability of work force

Stability of workforce is very important from the point of view of reputation and goodwill of a concern. The employees can remain loyal to the enterprise only when they have a feeling of participation in the management. The skills and efficiency of employees will always be of advantage to employees as well as employees. This will lead to a good public image in the market which will attract competent and qualified people into a concern. As it is said, “Old is gold” which suffices with the role of motivation here, the older the people, more the experience and their adjustment into a concern which can be of benefit to the enterprise.

From the above discussion, we can say that motivation is an internal feeling which can be understood only by Mentor since he is in close contact with the employees. Needs, wants and desires are inter-related and they are the driving force to act. These needs can be understood by the Mentor and he can frame motivation plans accordingly. We can say that motivation therefore is a continuous process since motivation process is based on needs which are unlimited. The process has to be continued throughout.

We can summarize by saying that motivation is important both to an individual and a business. Motivation is important to an individual as:

1. Motivation will help him achieve his personal goals.
2. If an individual is motivated, he will have job satisfaction.
3. Motivation will help in self-development of individual.
4. An individual would always gain by working with a dynamic team.

Similarly, motivation is important to a business as:

1. The more motivated the employees are, the more empowered the team is.
2. The more is the team work and individual employee contribution, more profitable and successful is the business.
3. During period of amendments, there will be more adaptability and creativity.
4. Motivation will lead to an optimistic and challenging attitude at work place.

5) Helps to Reduce Absenteeism in the Organisation:

In some of the organisations, the rate of absenteeism is high. There are many causes for this-poor work conditions, poor relations with colleagues and superiors, no recognition in the organisation, insufficient reward, etc. A Mentor removes all such deficiencies and motivates the employees. Motivated employees do not remain absent from work as the workplace becomes a source of joy for them.

If you want to enable better performance, you need to understand what motivates your employees – and support them to prioritise it. In this blog, our CEO & Founder, Anna Rasmussen explores the link between performance and motivation.

Motivation is the greatest performance enabler. You cannot drive performance without it. In fact, it’s insane to even try.

Motivation is what gets us out of bed in the morning. It’s what pushes us to do our best, whether that’s at work or at home or in our hobbies. It’s the spark that keeps us going, even when we face difficulty or adversity. Yet what drives that motivation is different for everyone.

If you want to improve performance at work, you have to understand what motivates every individual, and support them to prioritise those drivers. It could be career progression, or recognition, or time outside of work to exercise or spend time with their family. Whatever it is, it is the key to unlocking better performance. The more their role enables them to prioritise the things that are truly important to them, the more passionate, driven and productive employees will be.

Elite level athletes are a great example of the importance of motivation. They put their bodies through gruelling training schedules, constantly testing their physical and mental resilience – and for what? Why go through all of that if the end result – an Olympic medal, or record-breaking time – isn’t really that important to them? 

As sport psychologist, author and athlete Dr Jim Taylor explained, “to become the best athlete you can be, you must be motivated to do what it takes to maximise your ability. Without that desire, all of the other mental factors are meaningless.”

We’ve noticed a lot of organisations focusing on those ‘other factors’ that are, as Taylor put it, meaningless without motivation. Time, effort and resources are poured into performance initiatives that are doomed because they fail to take individual desire into account. A promotion won’t improve someone’s performance if what they really want is less stress. A pay rise won’t motivate someone if their priority is spending time with their family. 

The right conversations, at the right time

So how do you find out what actually motivates your workforce? The obvious place to start is to ask them – but it’s easier said than done. Managers need to know how to have the right conversations, at the right time, and be empowered to take the right actions as a result. It’s not enough to just know what’s important to someone: to successfully drive better performance, managers need to help their teams to prioritise their key motivators and remove the barriers that might be getting in the way.

OpenBlend’s performance management platform provides a framework for people managers to not just manage performance but enable it, by understanding and unlocking employees’ key drivers. By facilitating open, honest conversation and getting to the heart of what motivates every employee through devices like the Blend Tool and GROW framework, OpenBlend turns every manager into a coach: one who can help their team to identify what drives them and help them to unlock their best performance.

To discover more about individual drivers and motivators, and the impact they have on your teams and on your business, download the OpenBlend guide today.

Motivation is a very important for an organization because of the following benefits it provides:

1. Every concern requires physical, financial and human resources to accomplish the goals. It is through motivation that the human resources can be utilized by making full use of it. This can be done by building willingness in employees to work. This will help the enterprise in securing best possible utilization of resources.

2. The level of a subordinate or a employee does not only depend upon his qualifications and abilities. For getting best of his work performance, the gap between ability and willingness has to be filled which helps in improving the level of performance of subordinates. This will result into-

   1. Increase in productivity,
   2. Reducing cost of operations, and
   3. Improving overall efficiency.

3. The goals of an enterprise can be achieved only when the following factors take place :-

   1. There is best possible utilization of resources,
   2. There is a co-operative work environment,
   3. The employees are goal-directed and they act in a purposive manner,
   4. Goals can be achieved if co-ordination and co-operation takes place simultaneously which can be effectively done through motivation.

4. Motivation is an important factor which brings employees satisfaction. This can be done by keeping into mind and framing an incentive plan for the benefit of the employees. This could initiate the following things:

   1. Monetary and non-monetary incentives,
   2. Promotion opportunities for employees,
   3. Disincentives for inefficient employees.

   In order to build a cordial, friendly atmosphere in a concern, the above steps should be taken by a manager. This would help in:

   1. Effective co-operation which brings stability,
   2. Industrial dispute and unrest in employees will reduce,
   3. The employees will be adaptable to the changes and there will be no resistance to the change,
   4. This will help in providing a smooth and sound concern in which individual interests will coincide with the organizational interests,
   5. This will result in profit maximization through increased productivity.

5. Stability of workforce is very important from the point of view of reputation and goodwill of a concern. The employees can remain loyal to the enterprise only when they have a feeling of participation in the management. The skills and efficiency of employees will always be of advantage to employees as well as employees. This will lead to a good public image in the market which will attract competent and qualified people into a concern. As it is said, “Old is gold” which suffices with the role of motivation here, the older the people, more the experience and their adjustment into a concern which can be of benefit to the enterprise.

From the above discussion, we can say that motivation is an internal feeling which can be understood only by manager since he is in close contact with the employees.

Needs, wants and desires are inter-related and they are the driving force to act. These needs can be understood by the manager and he can frame motivation plans accordingly. We can say that motivation therefore is a continuous process since motivation process is based on needs which are unlimited. The process has to be continued throughout.

We can summarize by saying that motivation is important both to an individual and a business.

Motivation is important to an individual as:

1. Motivation will help him achieve his personal goals.
2. If an individual is motivated, he will have job satisfaction.
3. Motivation will help in self-development of individual.
4. An individual would always gain by working with a dynamic team.

Similarly, motivation is important to a business as:

1. The more motivated the employees are, the more empowered the team is.
2. The more is the team work and individual employee contribution, more profitable and successful is the business.
3. During period of amendments, there will be more adaptability and creativity.
4. Motivation will lead to an optimistic and challenging attitude at work place.

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