文档介绍：MOTIVATION PROCESS & THEORIES
MEANINING OF MOTIVATION
Some words whch go with motivation:
Desire
want, wishes
aims, goal
needs and drives
motives, incetives
Motivation is a term used to describe those processes both institictive and rational, by which people seek to satisfy their basic drives, perceived needs and personal goals which triggers human behaviour
Therefore motivations is a process and a drive
Motivation may be defined as keeness for a particular behaviour or simply willingness to work in order to achive a predetermined reward or goal.
Motivation is a product of needs, drives or motives, which is basically the driving force within a person.
It is inner state that enersises, activates or directs behavior towards achieving a goal
Motivation is a process that starts with physiclogical or psychogical deficiency or need that activates a behaviour or a drive that is aimed at a goal or an incentive
Therefore motivation lies in the meaning of interelationship between
need
drive
inceintive
Need: Created whenever there is a physiological or psychological imbalance . when the body is deprived of food
Drive: it is a deficiency with direction – actions which provide an energising thrust towards reaching an incentive
ned for food translates to hunger ( drive)
need for friends translates to a drive for affliation
incentive: anything that allievates the need and reduces the drive, restores the physiological or psychological balance
Model of motivation
A simplified model of motivation would look like below
Satisfaction/frustration
Behaviour
The need is created when there is a psychological or physiological imbalance in the person.
Need/drive
(physical/psychological
Stimulus………………..Response……………………….e
Deprivation/Deficiency
Reduction of drive
Deprivation/
With direction
A stimulus - . Hunger ( physical) or desire pany (social/psychological) ……….give rise to a response ( some kind of behaviour) ………which leads to an e….( eit