What Motivates People At Work?

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What motivates people at work? What motivates people at work? There are 5 factors that can motivate people to work. Firstly, salary, financial gains and bonuses can motivate people. People work for money to live. The higher salary they get, the more motivated they become. For example, if the employer announces that he will give a bonus next month to the best employee; all the employees will want to get the bonus. They will be more motivated to work. Therefore, financial gain is a very important factor to motivate the workers.

Medical benefits, insurance, gifts and scholarships are the second factor that motivates workers. For example, if medical benefits are different between upper and lower division employees, the upper division employees will get more medical benefits than the lower. So, the lower division workers will work hard to promote to upper division so they can get more benefits.

This may also be the case for insurance. The upper division may get more insurance coverage. So, the lower division workers are motivated to work harder to get the insurance. If the company provides scholarships to employee?s children, the employee may be motivated to work hard to stay at the company for a long period for their children sake. They want the scholarship for their children because they may not be able to afford it. Therefore, these benefits are also a type of motivation.

The third factor of motivation is flexibility at work. If the employer allows his workers to be flexible in their working times, the workers will then be able to divide their time accordingly to do their jobs. This will make them very happy and motivated to work under that employer. Also, if the company lets the employees to choose...