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Chapter-17 Motivation

BOOK TITLE: Psychology for Nurses

Author
1. Basavanthappa BT
ISBN
9789350250075
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11437_17
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2010
Pages
24
Author Affiliations
1. Government College of Nursing, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Rajarajeshwari College of Nursing, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Government College of Nursing, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Faculty of Nursing, RGUHS, Karnataka, India, Academic Council, RGUHS, Karnataka, India; IGNOU, BSc Nursing Course, Karnataka and Goa, India; Nursing Research Society of India, New Delhi, India; Trained Nurses , ssociation of India, New Delhi, India; RGUHS Nursing Teachers Association, Karnataka, India
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Abstract

Motive is a state within the individual that under appropriate circumstance initiates regulates behavior in relation to goal. Motivation is a process of stimulating people to action to accomplish desired goals. It refers to the way in which urges, drives, aspirations, stirrings or needs direct, control or explain the behavior of human being. Motivation is the force within the individual that influence or directs behavior. Because motivation comes from within the person. Manager cannot directly motivate subordinates. The humanistic manager can, however, create an environment that maximizes the development of human potential. Management support, collegial influence, and the interaction of personalities in the work group can have a synergistic effect on motivation. The Nurse as manager must identify those components and strengthen them in hopes of maximizing motivation at the unit level. All human beings have needs that motivate them. The leader focuses on the needs and wants of individual workers and uses motivational strategies appropriate for each person and situation. Leaders should apply techniques, skills and knowledge of motivational theory to help nurses achieve what they want out of work. At the same time, these individual goals should complement the goals of the organization. The manager bears primary responsibility for meeting organizational goals, such as reaching acceptable levels of productivity and quality. Motivation is an inferred process within an animal or person that causes that organism to move towards a goal. Motives are inferences from behavior (the things that are said and done). They may be conscious or unconscious. Motives also help in making predictions about behavior. Motivation includes all those internal conditions which begin an activity or sustain it. Motive is different from stimulus because it is there even before the stimulus. In the absence of internal motive there cannot be any response, however intense the external stimulus may be. Motives includes those internal factors which control the activity of the living beings. It does not include mechanical or reflex actions because they depend on the physical structure and the external environment. Such mechanical behavior is observed in less developed animals. Their changing physical and mental conditions control their behavior. Motives depend on the changing physical conditions and past experience. A burnt child dreads the fire because the memory of burning is always present in his mind. Thus it is clear that motivation explains the ‘why’ of behavior. Why a certain people behave in a particular way can be known by an enquiry into his internal motivating factors. Sometimes this ‘why’ can be inferred from external behavior also. For example, the influence of the sex motives can be inferred by a particular behavior of a pair of male and female. The cause of a particular behavior towards the child shows tender motive in the mother. There can be one motive behind different actions and different motives behind the same action. A man may throw a rupee towards a beggar due to disgust and also due to pity.

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