Hume`s quotation “Reason is…the slave of the Passions” is from a famous passage discussing the “motivating influence of the will” in his Treatise on Human Nature and reads in full: Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them (T 2.3.3 p. 415). The context is his discussion of what is sometimes called “moral psychology,” the study of how we are motivated to act morally. In particular, he raises a question about the role of practical reason in moral motivation. Hume vehemently opposes the view, held by philosophers before him, and after him, that to act morally is have a rational grasp of moral truths. Hume is saying that reason, or logic, cannot tell you how to act or what to choose. It is a slave to your passion similar to how a map is a slave of choosing where you want to go.
Content Theories:
Content theory describes the positive issues of motivation. It is important on what motivates the individuals. It explains the clarifications of impulses of human needs as well as time and many psychologists strived to describe these needs. There are some theories include in content theory such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, McGregor’s Theory X and Y, ERG theory, Herzberg’s Motivational theory, and McClelland’s theory of needs.
The main advantages of content theory that it can make employees be positive. Here motivator motivates each employee individually that’s why employee do their work very easily and correctly. For this theory, employees are fulfilled their basic needs (Hall, 2017).
Though this theory have some advantages, also have some disadvantages in this theory. If any organization apply this theory in their employees, it can take huge time to motivate them. Here individually motivate the employees that’s why expense much time.
Process Theories:
The theory, which contracts with the method of motivation and distinguish how motivation happens is process theory of motivation. Vroom’s Expectancy Theory, Equity Theory, Goal Setting Theory, Self-efficiency Theory and Cognitive Evaluation Theory are the process theory.
In process theories, some advantages includes like this theory gives clarification about how individual have behavior energized, aimed at, continued and stopped. It describes the individual behavior. It also maximize the pleasure and minimize the pain.
In process theory, there are also some disadvantages. Every employee don’t carry same mentality. For this reason same motivation cannot apply on all employee. Here employee can distress from their personal needs also. Individually wants to motivate from leader but in an organization follows a specific motivation style. That’s why every employee cannot be motivated properly. And it should be taken more time to motivate.
How these two theories are effective to attain of targets in TCC Centers are discussed below-
Sources: (Collingsa and Mellahi, 2017).
