motivation

(noun)

The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal directed behaviors.

Related Terms

  • Intrinsic Motivation
  • External, or extrinsic Motivation

Examples of motivation in the following topics:

  • Motivation

    • Motivation can originate from oneself (intrinsic) or from other people (extrinsic).
    • Intrinsic motivation is based on taking pleasure in an activity, while common extrinsic motivations are rewards, like money.
    • However, motivation is ultimately linked to emotion.
    • Intrinsic motivation has been studied since the early 1970s.
    • External, or extrinsic motivation comes from outside of the individual.
  • Stimulating Demand

    • For brands to successfully stimulate consumer demand, they must understand consumer needs and motives.
    • Motives produce goals, which can be positive or negative for the individual.
    • The difficulty of defining motives and dealing with motivation in consumer research accounts for its limited application in marketing.
    • For the most part, the research in motivation involves benefit segmentation and patronage motives.
    • To stimulate demand, brands must first understand the needs and motives of consumers.
  • Motivating and Compensating Salespeople

    • Employees are best motivated through effective job design, equitable compensation, and treatment as stakeholders in the company.
    • To motivate employees and improve firm performance, companies should strive for employee participation and influence.
    • It is thus essential to design their jobs with the goal of motivating them.
    • Motivation describes the forces within the individual that account for the level, direction, and persistence of effort expended at work.
    • Following the above paradigms can lead to a more motivated and more successful sales team (and workforce in general).
  • Types of Buying Decisions

    • Different types of buying decisions can involve logical, impulsive, and emotional motivations.
    • Different types of buying decisions can include logical, impulsive, and emotional motivations.
  • Determining Segmentation Variable(s)

    • Measurements of demographic, personality, and attitudinal variables are convenient measurements of less conspicuous motivational factors.
    • People with similar physical and psychological characteristics may be similarly motivated.
    • Motives can be positive (convenience), or negative (fear of pain).
    • So marketers attempt to observe motivation directly and classify market segments accordingly.
  • Marketing as an Entrepreneurial Force

    • The practice of intrapreneurship represents corporate management styles that integrate risk taking and innovative approaches, as well as reward and motivational techniques traditionally aligned with entrepreneurship.
    • Employees often serve as examples for intrapreneurship, and motivate other employees to undertake new or even revolutionary initiatives.
  • Learning

    • Learning is considered to have a psychological influence on consumer behavior, along with motivation and personality, perception, values, beliefs and attitudes and lifestyle.
    • Learning is considered to have a psychological influence on consumer behavior, along with motivation and personality, perception, values, beliefs, and attitudes and lifestyle.
  • Attitude

    • When people are not motivated to process the message, simply the number of arguments presented in a persuasive message will influence attitude change, such that a greater number of arguments will produce greater attitude change.
    • In the central route to persuasion, the individual is presented with the data and motivated to evaluate the data and arrive at an attitude-changing conclusion.
  • Consumer Misbehavior

    • Researchers generally agree that shoplifters are driven by either economic or psychosocial motives.
    • Psychosocial motivations may include peer pressure, a desire for thrill or excitement, impulse, intoxication, or compulsion.
  • Competitive Priorities in Marketing Channels

    • Ensuring these intermediaries are trained and motivated to sell the firm's products is crucial to a brand's competitive strategy; i.e., its accessibility and availability to buyers.
    • Promotional tactics are often used by companies use to motivate channel intermediaries to stock their brand over other products.
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