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What are the motivating characteristics of work? Discuss with reference to well-known theories of work motivation.  

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What are the motivating characteristics of work? Discuss with reference to well-known theories of work motivation. Motivation is a very important aspect of our everyday life, as our motives are major determinant of our behaviour in work, at home, everywhere. The subject of motivation covers many question from different areas e.g. areas associated with business: 'What stimulates people at work?' 'What drives people to do the things they do in their job?', to questions about our regular life: 'Why am I going to People and Organization lectures?', 'Why did I choose to write my essays on this topic?'. There are many answers for all of those questions but in all of them we will be able to find motivation as the main force of our course of action. If motivation is so important, to what does it then refer? Motivation derives from the latin verb 'movere', meaning 'to move'. Movement implies action...

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