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If the subordinate obeys, he is 'motivated' to obey and not to work.

2. Importance

Misdirected efforts to "motivate" create a lot of waste of energy. Perceptions

of "negative attitude", "coercion", "authoritarian" etc. emerge. Resistance

strengthens. Consequently unpleasant, non-collaborative relationships

develop.

The main cause of such situations is that managers do not recognise that the

motivations of people are not all the same. An employee who is not

cooperating is condemned as 'not motivated', white the fact may be that he is

highly motivated to be non-cooperative. That may be because he wants to get

even with the boss, who may have troubled him on an earlier occasion.

3. What is "Motivation"

When a person wants to do something, he is said to be motivated to do that

something. When a person does not do any work, he is motivated not to do

any work. He is motivated to do or not to do because thereby, he gets some

satisfaction. He is satisfying some need through that conduct.