Q1: What motivates you?

Ans: Friends and Family

I am motivated by my friends. If I face a critical problem, they are there giving valuable
encouragement.

Q2:does motivation is the result of person or situation

Ans: Motivation consists of processes occurring in the brain. It arises from the individual's dispositions interacting
with the immediate environment so the answer is 'both'. Dispositions can be short-term in the form of states (e.g. anxiety,
hunger)
Q3: What is the importance of motivation?
Ans:All our behavior can be construed as a product of: capability, opportunity and motivation.
These interact with what you can think of as a system. Motivation is the part the determines,
given that we have the opportunity to do a variety of things and the capability, what we
actually do and how we do it.
Q4:How motivating is money for older workers?
Ans:There is a lot of excellent research on motivation in the workplace. From PRIME Theory its
the function relating its motivational strength to the amount of money gained will depend on a
number of factors, including identity and expectation. It will also be important to recognise that
financial incentives tend to displace personal and moral incentives and that they need to be
policed. So motivating people in the workforce involves ensuring that: they perceive what they
are being paid as fair but beyond that making them feel valued, respected and able to control
their own destiny. Of course is is just a very brief snapshot of a complex issue.
Q5:What motivational theories are more useful and why?

Ans:This is too big a question to answer briefly. PRIME Theory aims to bring together the major theories of wh
and classical conditioning, decision theory, drive theory, identity theory, and subjective expected utility theory a
important. A second edition of the book on PRIME Theory is being written and hopefully will improve on the fi
describing these theories.
Q6:why is motivation theories important to an employee as well as employer
Ans:It is important for all of us to understand what motivates ourselves as well as other people.
Employees need to understand the wants and needs of his or her bosses and vice versa. They
also need to understand their own capacity for self-regulation and how they can engineer their
environment to maximize it

Q7: what is every persons primary motivation? Is it money, or self interest?

Ans:It varies of course. Not only across individuals but over time. What takes priority at one time may be relega
PRIME Theory is a theory about motivation 'in the moment'.
Q8:What is the role of culture?
Ans:Culture, defined as shared assumptions, beliefs, ways of perceiving and acting of a group or
population, profoundly influences and exemplifies all aspects of the motivational system, both
in terms of content and functioning of that system. For example, we may talk cultural
differences in approach to safety which influences the way people drive, and the systems and
structures that are used to promote safety more generally. This can be observed in the way that
plans are made, the beliefs and desires that influence those plans and the ways that these plans
go on to influence behaviour.
Q9: Why is motivation called a matter of learning

Ans: If I understand the question correctly, I don't think it is. It is true that as humans our motivation does usually
learning (specifically: learning associations, habituation, sensitisation and acquiring propositional knowledg
reactions and some of our actions are instinctive.
Q10: Can this theory treat gambling addiction
Ans:

With appropriate additional knowledge it should be useful in addressing any addiction. Remember that
for specific knowledge about the etiology of an addictive disorder but a model into which such knowled
and used to make predictions