This paper explains about the motivation and motivation theories. The main aim of this paper is to study how psychological behaviour of an individual agent performs in a group will improve the group performance. Motivation is taken from the Latin word which is movere that is to move. Motivation is the forces acting on or within a person that causes arousal, direction and persistence of goal directed, voluntary efforts. All the motivational theory are universally accepted the motivational theory

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... explains why and how human behaviour is activated. in this paper there is a comparative study of different motivational theories .motivational theory more focuses on Maslow's theory and goal setting theory. Where Maslow's involves about the priority and goal setting is about goal oriented motivation. With many case studies like business, education and construction. The proposed theory says that when time is considered as a factor the agents are highly motivated towards the goal and hence it improves the group performance.