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To what extent can theories of motivation help managers manage employees in a modern knowledge-based organisation? Justify your answer. INTRODUCTION This essay first of all looks into what is motivation? Various theories of motivation, the basic premise for such theories and the challenges faced. It then establishes the relationship between how these theories are helpful for the managers to manage the employees in the knowledge based organisation. MOTIVATION What is motivation? The term "Motivation" is derived from the Latin word movere, meaning 'to move' (Kreitner R., Kinicki A. & Buelens M., 2002, p: 176) which means as facts, need, emotion, and organic state which encourages a man to do an action. From early on, the concept of motivation has been utilized to explain types of behaviour, for example, basic biological needs or drives connected to survival and breeding (e.g. hunger, thirst and sex) and extrinsic rewards or punishments. Both the types of explanations...

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