Regaining Motivation at Work E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Coaching
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 36

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about staying motivated at work with this practical guide.

Motivation is not a skill that is possessed by some people and not by others. It is a dynamic that arises when an individual feels happy, supported and fulfilled in their professional context. This guide will help you to analyse why you do not feel motivated at work and to find purpose and fulfilment in your professional situation.

In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Identify what is causing your lack of motivation at work
• Cope with stress and change in your professional life
• Analyse your problems at work and figure out how to deal with them 

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Leseprobe

Putting meaning back into your work

Issue: how do I identify sources of demotivation and take action to motivate myself?Uses: it is not always enough to be competent to work well, and fulfilment in our personal lives is not necessarily solid enough protection to help us cope with unhappiness in our professional lives. When we lack the strength to go to work and fulfil our professional goals, it is important to take the time to reflect on what can be implemented, before reaching breaking point.Professional context: human resource management.FAQs:To regain motivation at work, should I focus solely on professional aspects?How should I cope with professional stress that reduces my motivation?How can I come up with solutions when faced with difficult situations?Would I be more satisfied and motivated if I worked part time?How do people adapt to organisational changes?Should I think about changing career path to regain my motivation?

Although many companies call upon “motivated individuals” in their job descriptions, motivation is not a skill that some of us have and some of us don’t. It is a dynamic, a certain chemistry between an individual and the context they are in. Motivation is something that is cultivated, and whatever your job, your colleagues, your manager and your company all have their roles to play so that you are happy there. Although it is not always possible for you to act on other people and change their behaviour, we hope that an analysis of your situation in the light of the following ideas will motivate you to get stuck in again rather than doing nothing and letting the situation fester.

Motivation: the basics

Motivation, satisfaction or commitment?

Motivation is often confused with ideas of satisfaction and commitment. In their work Motiver, être motivé et réussir ensemble (“Motivate, be motivated and succeed together”), Éric Cobut and Géraldine Bomal explain that satisfaction is usually about the impressions we have about our professional situation, whereas motivation is more to do with the driving force behind our behaviour. Satisfaction is a state of being (we are either satisfied or unsatisfied), whereas motivation is a dynamic, a process requiring effort to propel us in our professional context. When we are motivated, it is always in reference to something; there is no such thing as absolute motivation. These two authors distinguish the absence of motivation from ‘demotivation’. There is in fact a subtle difference between not finding anything that makes you want to work hard and watching your desire to work hard disappear on account of the deterioration of your relationship to your working environment.

Commitment is another concept that can be confused with motivation. This concept mostly refers to the relationship the person has with the organisation and its members. Commitment corresponds to our degree of psychological identification with our work and influences our overall image. As various studies on commitment in organisations illustrate, including that of Howard Klein, Thomas Becker and John Meyer, there are different kinds of commitment:

Commitment to work, which is linked to the space it takes up in our lives;Commitment to the organisation as a whole, which implies an alignment with its goals and values, a desire to make an effort for its benefit and a desire to remain part of it;Commitment to a career or profession;Commitment to a specific role (‘job involvement’).

Your job and professional relationship with the organisation thus influence the perception you have of your overall image as well as your motivation at work. If you are being negatively impacted by elements of your professional context, it is important to spend a moment reflecting in order to figure out where the shoe pinches.

Evolution of the concept of motivation

In her work on intuitive management, Meryem Le Saget informs us that there have been three generations of conceptions of motivation since the early 20th century.

“I get my tasks done”

The first generation is linked to the age of industrialisation, efficiency and productivity, offering a single interpretation for workers, with identical solutions for each of them. Here, being motivated means working out of fear of an employer, out of hope for obtaining better living conditions, or for earning enough money to feed a family.