Motivation Of Workers For Higher Productivity In Banking Sector (a Case Study Of Union Bank Okpara Avenue Plc. Enugu)

Since motivation influences productivity, supervisors need to understand what motivates employees to reach peak performance.  It is not easy task to increase employees motivation because employees respond in different ways to their organisations practices.  Motivation is the set of processes that moves a person towards a goal.

According to Glueck, motivation is the inner state that energises, channels and sustains human behaviours.

Huse and Badit defines motivation as the condition responsible for variations in the intensity, quality and direction of a going behaviour.

Borne/Erstrand sees motivation as “an explanatory concept, used to answer questions about both within the individual (the same person behaves different on two occasion, when the situation is identical) and between individuals.

Hull, viewed motivation as “stemming from physiologically based drives with social motive.  Another writer explained that motivation is a process of creating organisation conditions and controlling the occupational environment in a manner that develops employees potentials and causes them in aligning employee and organisation interest so that behaviour result in achievement of employee wants simultaneously with the attainment of organisation objectives. 

Robber .C. refers motivation as “the way, urges, aspirations, drives and need of human being directed or control or explain their behaviour, it may be described as keenness for a particular pattern of behaviour.

According to Dr. E.M. Nwabuisi “motivation is what direct behaviour towards satisfaction of some needs.  Motivation is the state of condition of being induced to do something foundational, it involves needs that exist within the individual and incentives or goals.

Anlue sees motivation ad “Energizer, a stimulus, a need, a drive an urge, a goal or a desire, which is instrumental to human behaviour.  In other words a motivator can be described as anything internal or external which triggers up human behaviour he further more, said that motivation may be (A) intrinsic and (B) extrinsic.

Intrinsic motivation can be described as the joy of doing something for example on academic, individual who drives joy and satisfaction from reading and learning always moves to the library due to the satisfaction it gives her, but a person who does something that is not his/her wish in other to please someone that pushes him/her to do it is extrinsic motivation.

Rommy Okoye perceived motivation as “An impress/issues that urges an organisaiton into activity.  When a person puts up a behaviour, there are some forces from within which helps to energies him and direct him in his actions.  This motivation acts to arouse, sustain and direct behaviour.  The foreign postulations have explained the extremity in the behavioural tendencies of individuals when bastion is induced.  It has shown that certain people are stirred into action as a result of influence that is applied on them, people are motivated into action as a result of nature deficiency in the general well bring of people, economically, socially, culturally and politically people who fall into each of this group experience problems which in other to induce them will enumerate from the base of motivation that will be enumerate from the base of motivation that will be applied the motivation.  A worker suffers economic deficiency of limited means and unlimited wants therefore, some of this vital needs should be met to motivated him into high productivity.

An ambitious socialist wants a good social leader or someone who will put things in his own desired order or if possible himself, likewise a political conscious person who is influence by group political ideology manifestoes or monetary commendation to be incited into taking actions that will lep lift in well-being or satisfy his social orders different writers motivation can thus be summarised as follows.

A process, which incites an individual or a groups to action, a cause of inducement that influences the behavioural pattern of an individual or group.  It is also a process that influences the sense of purpose of an individual or group.  Further motivation in a condition or state, which activates and direct mans action or energise.  Motivation has to do with why people refrain from doing things.  A motivation is a need or achieving force with an individual, this process involves with choosing between alternative forms of actions in order to achieve time-desired end.

Basic model of behaviour