CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The management of every organisation has specific function to perform for the smooth running of the organisation. These functions include forecasting, planning, organizing, controlling, communicating and leadership.
Before taking a look at “motivation” I will briefly explain the other functions of management:
Forecasting: Involves estimating and considering alternative courses of action when the most appropriate set of forecast has been found, these form the bases for the plans to be carried out and are incorporated into budgets.
Planning: Is the process of setting goals and objectives for an organisation and determining how to achieve such goals and objectives. It is an anticipating decision in designing an environment for effective performance of individuals working together in groups.
Organizing: Is that function of management that involves establishing roles for people to fill in an organisation. It is establishing roles and responsibilities for people in an organisation.
Coordinating: Is the essence of management for the achievement of harmony of individual’s efforts towards the accomplishment of group goals. Each of the managerial function is an exercise contributing to coordination in organisation; it is possible for one or more individuals to pursue certain objective which are at variance with the corporate objectives.
Controlling: Planning and control are basic to the attainment of organisational objectives within a given environment. While planning us a rational approach to pre-selected objectives as stated above, control is the measurement and correction of performance of activities in order to ensure that enterprise objectives and the plans devised to attain them are being accomplished.
Communication: Is the process of transmitting of instruction and information to all interested parties that is the employee, customer, suppliers, shareholders and the general public pears, anxieties mistrust and other enemies of efficient management can all arise from lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of information that has been given.
Leadership: Is the process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group in their efforts towards the accomplishment of goals and objectives of the organisation. A person is said to be a leader when he is able to inspire others to work willingly towards the achievement application of this personal capabilities and equalities.
Motivation: Is the drilling force within an individual that impress him or her to act in specified way without any form of coercion. It can also be describe as how behaviour gets started, is organised, sustained, directed and stopped and what kind of subjective reaction is present in the organisation while all this is going on.
This definition points at the things:
1. Motivation is a process and this means that it is possible to identify at a point in time during which an individuals is motivated or not.
2. There is a subjective reaction which is present in and underline the behaviour of a motivated individuals. Motivation is therefore the force that organizes, energizes, directs maintains and sustain behaviour towards a given goals in an environment.
1.1 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The aims and objects of this project is to show the significance of motivation in any organisation setting. Without motivation in any organisation, that organisation will not be able to achieve his goals and objective, reasons are:
1. To meet pre-determined objectives in any organisations co-operation that exist among workers and subordinate or this can only be achieve through motivation.
2. Increase production, efficiency and effectively.
The aim and objective is to let management know the importance of motivation if business is to succeed.
