Motivation And Motivation In Leadership

2.1 Motivation.

According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, a motive is “something a need or desire that causes a personto act”. “Motivate, in turn, means “to provide with a motive,” and motivation is defined as “the act or process of motivating”. Consequently, motivation is the performance or procedure of presenting an intention that origin a person to capture some accomplishment (Shanks, N.H.). According to Butkus & Green (1999), motivation is derived from the word “motivate”, means to move, push or influence to proceed for fulfilling a want (kalimullah et al, 2010).

Bartol and Martin (1998) desribe motivation as a power that strenghtens behavior, gives route to behavior, and triggers the tendency to continue (Farhad et al, 2011). This

The reactions of employees to their leadership will usually depend on the characteristics of the employees as well as on the characteristics of the leaders (Wexley & Yukl 1984). Leadership is about getting things done the right way, to do that you need people to follow you, you need to have them to trust you. And if you want them to trust you and do things for you and the organization, they need to be motivated (Baldini.J, 2005). Theories imply that leader and followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation (Rukhmani.K, 2010). Motivation is purely and simply a leadership behavior. It seems from wanting to do what is right for people as well as for the organization. Manager plays a important role in influencing the employee’s commitment level and better work and family initiatives led to a 5.5 % reduction in employee turnover and a 23% reduction in workers’ compensation costs. Leadership and motivation are active processes (Baldoni.J, 2005). Managers should find out about interests each of their subordinates and try and make a match. Sometimes it is clear what an interesting task is, e.g. dealing with a hot topic that occupies the media or politicians minds. In this case, an interviewee suggested that “managers should give the hot topics to those employees they want to motivate”. Though, managers must take caution to over all distribute “good” projects as equal as possible in order not to create demotivation. Another way to make the job interesting is by diversity and framework breaking. For example, junior employees work on bits and pieces of a big puzzle they never get to see. Therefore, managers can motivate them by letting them to see the top of the pyramid and by having they present their work to senior management and get new