Motivation - Definitions And Motivational Cycle

To understand human behavior is essential to understand human motivation. The concept of motivation was used with different meanings. In general, why is the impulse that leads people to act a certain way, ie giving rise to a specific behavior. This impulse to action can be triggered by an external stimulus coming from the environment, or generated internally by the individual mental processes.

In this respect the motivation is related to the cognition of the individual system. Cognition or knowledge is what people know about themselves and the surrounding environment. The cognitive system of each person includes their personal values ​​and is deeply influenced by his social and physical environment, structure, physiological, physiological processes, and their needs and experiences.

Consequently, all the individual acts are guided by their cognition by what you feel, think and believe.

Despite these major differences, the process that energizes human behavior is more or less similar in all people. There are three interrelated premises, to explain human behavior:

Human behavior has causes. There is a causal behavior. Both heredity and environment strongly influence the behavior of people. The behavior is caused by internal or external stimuli. Human behavior is motivated. There is purpose in all human behavior. The causal behavior is not random, but guided or directed to some goal. Human behavior is intended for personal goals. After all there is always an impulse behavior, craving, need, trend, expressions used to designate the reasons for the behavior. If these three assumptions are correct, human behavior would not be spontaneous and would be devoid of purpose: Always have a goal implicit or explicit to guide the behavior of people.

CYCLE OF MOTIVATION

Human behavior can be explained by the cycle of motivation, ie the process whereby needs determine human behavior, leading to a state of resolution.

The needs and motivations are not static, by contrast, are persistent and dynamic forces that cause a certain behavior. When it emerges, the need to balance the body breaks down and causes a state of tension, dissatisfaction, discomfort and imbalance that leads the individual to develop a behavior or action that can download free you from stress or discomfort or imbalance.

If the behavior is effective, the individual will find the satisfaction of the need and, consequently, the discharge of the stress caused by it. Satisfied the need, the body back to the previous steady state natural form of adaptation to environment. The cycle of motivation can be summarized as follows.

By repeating the cycle of motivation (reinforcement) and learning that comes from there, the behavior or actions are gradually but effective in meeting certain needs.

A satisfied need is not motivating behavior as it does not cause stress, discomfort or imbalance. Consequently, a person who is not hungry is not motivated to find food to eat. (Davis, 1992) The need can be satisfied, failed or compensated (transferred to another object).

In the cycle of motivation, there is a state of internal balance (person) altered by a stimulus (internal) or incentive (external), which produces a necessity. The need causes a state of tension that leads to a behavior or action that leads to the satisfaction of that need.

Satisfied that the human body returns to the previous internal balance. However, not always meet the need. Many times, the stress caused by the emergence of the need to find a barrier or obstacle to his release.

Finding no normal output, repressed tension in the body, seeking out an indirect mechanism, whether through social (aggression, discontent, emotional stress, apathy, indifference, etc).

Either through the physiology (nervous tension, insomnia, heart or digestive effects etc) this is called frustration as the tension is not discharged and remains in the body causing certain symptoms psychological, physiological or social.

At other times, the need is not satisfied or failed, but that is transferred or offset. The transfer or compensation occurs when the satisfaction of a need, serves to reduce or quench the intensity of other needs that can not be satisfied.

This is what happens when a promotion is surrounded by a good pay raise or a new office job.

The individual tends to develop motivational forces as a result of the cultural environment in which they live, so peel which people perceive their work and face their lives. The same happens in the writing of monographs, as he will have to overcome and win over everyone with his production.

There are key motivational forces in the individual and demonstrating the importance of motivation.

- Reasons for Conducting

It's a push to overcome challenges, advance and grow in pursuit of its objectives. The realization is important in itself, independent who can accompany them.

Rod Auerbach, coach, and president-general manager of the basketball team champion often "Boston" had a simple answer only when you pergutavam as motivating his players. Resorted to excellence, pride, pride in being part of the greatest team in the world, it was challenging to find and the joy of using the championship ring as a symbol of the collective realization of the group. (Davis and Nenstron, 1992, p. 48)

- Motivation for Membership

It is an impulse to interact effectively with people. The affiliation-motivated people work best when they are praised for positive attitudes and cooperation. They tend to choose friends to be your turn. Experience inner satisfaction when riding with friends and want freedom from work to develop these feelings.

- Reasons for qualification

It is the urge to perform high quality work. The contributors motivated by the qualification of the domain of work, the development of problem solving activities and tried to be innovative. The most important is to take advantage of their experiences.

For example, a stylist who feels good about herself when it receives the recognition of others to create a wonderful picture. However, let your supervisor angry when serving their terms and antagonizes, if your co-workers, once unable to interact with them.

So quite clearly, guidance for the qualification is stronger than their need for affiliation.

- Motivation for Power

It is the drive to influence people and situations. For their part, want to make an impact on their organizations and take risks to do so.

People become excellent managers if their needs are institutional power rather than personal power.

The knowledge of the motivational forces that help administrators understand the attitudes of their employees at work. Being able to deal with each employee in a particular way, taking into consideration the motivational impulse stronger in each case.

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