Thursday, February 02, 2012

A BACKSTAGE VIEW ON MOTIVATION

Motivation is the act or process of stimulating to action, providing an incentive or motive, especially for an act. Every person has different reasons for working. The reasons for working are as individual as the person. But, we all work because we obtain something that we need from work. The something obtained from work impacts morale, employee motivation, and the quality of life. Although in general, a normal social human beings initial intentions are the three basic amenities roti, kaapda aur makaan, tied to their different variations of life, however, these intrinsic requirements of our daily life often shift so fast and invariably that we ourselves dont know about the change. Apart from the above three reasons, people tend to think about the brand under which they work, the team they work with, even the managers they work under. Obviously for a knowledge intrinsic person, there will also be the quality of work which he performs under his rule-map is an add-on to the various reasons of our motivation. It will be very wrong if we only talk about motivation at work. Every human being, being a social, needs motivation in every act of his life. Even a shrimp man going to a gym would often require a motivation of a woman in a relationship, or a vigorous concentration in studies and good results can be a result of motivation to out-peer a students classmates. As the other facts of life, reasons of motivation are also a double-sided coin. Sometimes, peer pressure, estranged manager, extreme competition is a reason for motivation and sometimes even trivial comparisons like a colleague buying a new car is a motivation for a person to work better to have a good hike in the next performance cycle, so that he can also achieve better than his colleague, at the least the same. In this short interview with motivation, I will keep aside the different under-a-microscope debates and discussions on how a company should work upon motivating its employees for the benefit of the company, whereas I would like to emphasize more upon one of the important factors of motivation being self-realization. The reason is very simple, after meeting so many people in life, understanding and overcoming so many difficulties in life and more watching these difficulties at my friends, colleagues, family members life, I try to think and understand how self-realization impacts our motivation and our act in life. A very basic example would be: Considering how much a company is successful in motivating its employees, it can be very possible that an employee is not able to work properly or concentrate efficiently on his/her deliverables if there is a problem at his/her family. I would believe that who all are reading this article would surely accept the fact, that we feel disturbed at workplace, we cannot concentrate on our work, if something is wrong at our home it can be our parents are ill, son is not doing well in studies, husband is having a probable affair with one of his young colleagues, etc..etc..

Thursday, February 02, 2012 Even if we not think of these great life-changing reasons in our life, even trivial reasons like I was not able to sleep correctly yesterday, my house-maid didnt came to work for the last couple of days, or more even will that beautiful dress still remain available till my salary I loved it so much, I cant see Prerna (she is my imaginative colleague) wearing that dress to impress boss. I accept that if I bring forward these reasons in front a psychologist or human behavior specialist, he will surely have enough reasons and debates to confirm the second half of reasons to be not trivial, but I am not identifying whether the reasons are trivial or not, but the fact how the reasons irrespective of how important or obscure they are, actually relate to our deliverables. I believe and try to practice a very simple funda on this dont bring your libido to work (this was a dialogue in one of my favorite films). If you think about the line, you will understand that motivation is actually a result of imbalance of the basic components of economics of life supply and demand Motivation is indirectly proportional to the imbalance of supply and demand of expectations in life. Now if you can see, from my above economical dialogue, if I take out the components: Motivation, Inversely proportional, Imbalance Supply & Demand of Expectations And if you only look into the last line of words, wont you agree with me that these are completely at our will. Now I am not asking anyone to limit the last line, actually I believe if you limit it, you will put pressure on yourself by doing that. I believe the existence of human being is solely upon them. However, I would just want to point out the second line here along with the location of it.... meaning exactly where and at what point of our life or day we are creating the imbalance. Explaining it, why dont we oath on the fact that we will balance our supply & demand of expectations as much as possible to keep our motivations high at workplace; we can still have them later part of the day where we can afford it. The reason so again brings the mind readers in debate, that how will we decide and confirm when and where to afford what. I will leave this discussion here and will continue next week, if I get valuable comments, suggestions and insights from whoever reads this.. it will help me to study further on this. Till then, keeping the right and wrong to be decided by the reader and not the author.