What is motivation?

What is motivation? 'The processes that account for an individuals intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal.' Motivation is usually labelled as a personal trait but that is not true since every individual has motivation. However, people have different needs and different interests, which motivate them, (a sports celebrity could find difficulty in reading a journal about medicine in hour but find it less difficult to read a whole stack of …

…interpersonal relationships and basic material extinct but, 'Money is important to employees because it is a medium of exchange. People may not work only for money, but take the money away and how many people come to work?' If pay is dependent on performance it will encourage workers to have an enhanced performance at work, money will motivate to the extent that it is seen as being able to satisfy an individuals personal goals.