Term “motivation”

Motivation is an important topic in managing human resources. In book

“Organizational Behavior” of Kreitner and Kinicki (1998), the term “motivation” is
derived from Latin word “movere” what means “move”. Motivation is “those
psychological process that cause the arousal, direction, and persistence of voluntary
actions that are goal oriented” (Mitchell, T. R. 1982, pp. 81). Motivation defined as “The
processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort
toward attaining a goal.” (Robbins, S. 2001, pp. 156).
In Oxford Leaner’s Dictionaries, “motivation” is a noun, it means “the reason why
somebody does something or behaves in a particular way” or “the feeling of wanting to
do something, especially something that involves hard work and effort”. In this definition
of the dictionary, “motivation” stood at a larger context (it is motivation in all tasks, all
types of jobs, not just in company environment) when comparing with the research’s
context (at work at NDVN).
Motivation is giving interest, enthusiasm, reasons, motivation or cause a certain
behavior or specific action. The presence of motivation in all official survival as simple
as drinking behavior is motivated by thirsty. Even, motivation can be something from
reward for coercion. School admission is motivated by a desire to obtain knowledge