October 2011 - This Old Hand

Motivation and motivational theories

8th October 2011 by This Old Hand

This post looks at CONTENT THEORIES of motivation.

What is motivation?

My favourite definition is from Mullins (2008) who describes motivation as ‘a driving force’ through which people strive to achieve their goals and fulfil a need or uphold a value.

Motivational theories – process theories

28th November 20198th October 2011 by This Old Hand

Following on from my post on motivational content theories, this post looks at process theories of motivation. This is a group of theories that attempt to explain how employees choose to act a certain way in order to meet their needs and determine whether their choices were successful. The theories focus on the mental processes used to evaluate cause and effect relationships.