Relationship between Learning and Motivation

     Learning is inseparable from the service industry. Hotels, restaurants, and tourism service companies are the representative of the service industry. Hospitality companies are service oriented and service centered. Thus, logding industry invests hundreds of million dollars in training program (Frash, Antun, Kline, & Almanza, 2010). Thus, it is reasonable that executives and researchers have interests in the efficiency of transfer of training, because the remained knowledge changes for the far worse as time goes by. In order to improve this problem, the trainer should first learn about the impact factors to help trainee keep more knowledge. Trainee characteristics like motivation, training design like blueprint, and work environment like feedback are those factors. I like the third one, because that is related to the maintenance of the transfer.

     On the other hand, motivation is a matter of concern of all industries. Reading some articles, there are two types about motivation; intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. The examples of the intrinsic motivation are achievement, enjoyment, and interest, also ones of the extrinsic motivation are money, grade, and punishment. Many researches emphasize the intrinsic motivation, because of the higher effectiveness and the hardship of the economic crisis now. It may be sure that the arguments are certain. Which one is more important? I think that it is hard to gauge the importance of one. The reason is that it depends on the culture and the time. For example, many people first want the money for the safety which is the basic need of human. In a practical site, the purpose of a company is profit and money. However, if the person satisfy with their basic need, they would look for more ideal value for own life. That is about the intrinsic motivation.

     I felt something was wanting. The relationship between learning and motivation was the interesting subject for me. However, I did not find out the proper materials. I just guess there are strong relationship between two theories, because both refer the contents and the principles of each other. Also, like the article about learning style preference, the diversity of the motivation preference as the nationality or culture background could be valuable research idea. Try it sometime!