Motivation is that special driving force or tool that drives a person to achieve his goals and pursue his or her interests and desires. Every person needs to be motivated externally or internally for reaching to his goals and for fulfilling his desires and needs. Even managers, in fact not only managers but also employees of any organization need to be motivated for working and performing better and better. Usually we think of management case studies as tools that would give us better and enhanced understanding of the management concepts, theories and models or something that would teach us or get us acquainted to dealing with situations. But that is not always the case. The management schools employ numerous motivational case studies that provide examples and stories for motivating employees for doing better at their jobs.

There are numerous management theories also, like the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the McClelland's motivational theory that imbibes and develops a sense of achievement and personal satisfaction among the managers. These cases help the managers to understand the benefits of different interpersonal characteristics, like team-building, communications, project management etc. Such motivational case studies usually involve a general storyline or a situation to elaborate and explain how managers can use their teams and their colleagues for performing better in their respective organizations. Numerous real-time scenarios and occurrences of different organizations and companies are also involved to prove the different aspects of being a good manager. People learn how to motivate and hence retain their employees also.

As the development of such interpersonal skills is as important as the development and knowledge of management theories and concepts, it is shown that these case studies can be extremely helpful. If you are facing a trouble dealing with the people working under you or your bosses, these case studies can give you a direction and a path to work on, hence providing you an opportunity to benefit your employees, team and the entire organization on a whole. And hence giving and rendering such knowledge to people before they actually go to become managers can be extremely helpful at the educational, as well as the corporate level. Students get to learn the basics and significance of team role, leadership etc and hence can apply these concepts even in other group assignments or team activities of their colleges. Thus, such motivational case studies not only help you make better managers but also make you better as people.