Motivation within the workplace

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Write a 2,000–3,000 word
paper in APA format on a specific aspect of or topic relating to Organizational
Behavior and its implications for business. Apply your findings to a specific
industry or type of business. Be sure your paper addresses the following:

• What are the strategic
  implications of organizational behavior for your selected industry or
  business?
• What business needs within the
  industry you have identified represent opportunities for organizational
  behavior?
• What implications (both
  opportunities and challenges) does organizational behavior have on your
  selected industry or business?
• Include a minimum of 7–10 sources.

Abstract

The focus of this research
paper is “Motivation within the workplace”. What does motivation mean to us?
How does it really affect us as leaders as well as employees? According to
(Wiley,2011) motivation is defined as: : “The forces coming from within a
person that account for the willful direction, intensity, and persistence of
the person’s efforts toward achieving specific goals, where achievement is not
due solely to ability or to environmental factors”.

Work motivation
has to be in my opinion one of the most active impactions in relation to the
organizational behavior within the work force that is why I have chosen this
topic.  If your employees are not
motivated many negative behaviors will surface amongst them.  For example, “the lack of motivation could
affect safety, esteem needs, self-actualization needs, social needs as well as
physiological needs just to name a few” (Wiley 2011).

This research
paper will entail how motivation affects the workplace on daily basis as well
as the overall long term effects motivation has on us all within. The relevance
of motivation in relation to the Organizational behavior the fact the
motivation is quite crucial an importance in any discussion of organizational
behavior. Individuals must be motivated if they are to effectively engage in
practices and behaviors that bring along the success to a company, business or
firm. This area of Organizational Behavior interests me because there are many
strategies to master and they all funnel to the one goal of effectively running
a business.

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