...IMPACT OF REWARD SYSTEM ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION A QUANTITAVE STUDY OF GLOBAL COMPANIES Programme Code & Name: Session: Subject Code & Name: Assignment Title: Student’s Names & ID: o Nguyen Vu Minh An o Li Jia o Dai Hairong o Hue Shin Yen o Zhangshan o Daiwei Class Section: Lecturer: Submission Date: I13003385 I12002184 I12002129 I13003254 I12002130 I12002099 5A1 Ms. Yalini Easvaralingam 12th Aug, 2013 MBADI–Master of Business Administration May 2013 MGT6208 – Statistic and Decision Analysis Group Assignment 1 Group assignment MGT Table of Contents ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................... 3 CHAPTER 1: INDTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 3 1.1 Problem statement ........................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Research Objectives ........................................................................................................ 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................... 5 2.1 Employee motivation ...................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Reward management system ........................................................................................... 7 2.3 Effects of financial and non-financial reward system...
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... An RSR’s position consists of selling merchandise to the customer, delivering the product, stocking of the product as well as customer service. During the last 10 years the company has changed the pay structure that determines the compensation that each RSR receives. In doing this they have also increased the workload and amount of expectations that have been placed on the shoulders of the employees. During all of the events that were involved with the pay changes, the morale and drive of the employees continued to drop. On a daily basis you can walk into the office and see an obvious lack of interest in the day-to-day operations, growing lack of concern in increased duties or committee involvement, and an obvious decrease in motivation. Language such as: “wish I wasn’t here,” “this place is beating me up,” “this isn’t what I get paid for,” and “they don’t pay me enough to do this” are all voices...
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...The Effect of Reward to Employee’s Motivation towards Work Productivity Johnpaula Louise A. Sanchez COMARTS 2 Professor Chona Lajom October 4, 2012 A Review of the Literature Employee’s motivation is one of the most essential parts in a company’s development and success. In order to maximize the overall performance of the employee, the employer must know what is the most motivating for the employees and how to increase their job satisfaction. However, it may be challenging for the company to find out what motivates its employees especially because different people are motivated by different things. Motivation is the desire to achieve beyond expectations, being driven by internal rather than external factors, and to be involved in a continuous striving for improvement. In the context of work, motivation is a psychological process that results from the relationship between an employee and the work environment and it is characterized by a certain level of willingness. The employees are willing to increase their work effort in order to be rewarded and get a specific need or desire that they hold. According to Arnold (1991), motivation consists of three components. First is direction that tackles about what a person is trying to do. Second is effort, meaning, how hard a person is trying. And lastly, persistence, this means how long a person keeps on trying to get what he really wanted. Motivation theory tries to explain, why people at work, behave...
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... This report aims at analyzing the elements of success of Google so as to help Baidu solve its problem combing organizational behavior theory with Google’s case. Job Satisfaction Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from an attitude and reaction towards one’s job as an important index measured by organizations. Satisfied employees tend to be more productive, creative and committed to their employers, and recent studies have shown a direct correlation between staff and consumer satisfaction. There is a variety of external and internal influences on job satisfaction including culture, management style, employee involvement and employees’ own expectation to their jobs. As we know that Google provide the prefect working condition and flexible benefits for their employees to increase their job satisfaction. We will analyze these elements in details in the following. The more important is that Google is always focusing on internal elements of job design to meet the high job expectation of their employees. According to the 2006 General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center, the people who are the most satisfied with their work and thus with their life overall, are those in...
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...3 237 The relaTionship beTween employee moTivaTion and job involvemenT S Govender and SB Parumasur School of Management Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal Accepted March 2010 Abstract The study aims to assess the current level of, and relationship between, employee motivation and job involvement among permanent and temporary employees in various departments in a financial institution. This cross-sectional study was undertaken on 145 employees who were drawn by using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using the Employee Motivation Questionnaire (Fourie, 1989) and the Job Involvement Questionnaire (Lodahl & Kejner, 1965) and, was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicate that there are significant intercorrelations among the majority of dimensions and sub-dimensions of employee motivation and job involvement. Recommendations are presented to provide practitioners and managers with guidelines for enhancing employee motivation and job involvement respectively. JEL J28, M12 1 Introduction Motivating staff may be a critical factor in ensuring that an organisation thrives and succeeds in an increasingly competitive environment. The rationale is that, as employees become increasingly motivated to perform in their jobs, the likelihood of their becoming job involved increases significantly. Hence, the researchers postulate the existence of a direct relationship between motivation and job involvement. This suggests an...
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...July 25, 2013 Non-Monetary Rewards in the Workplace Incentives are utilizable tools that are used as motivational mechanisms. Incentives are also used for and applied to any aspect of the everyday life as a form to keep the individual who is striving for it the will and the motivation to keep on reaching for the goal. Individuals can even make use of incentives on themselves, for example if an individual wants to stick to a workout regimen that he or she has formulates for him or herself but is finding it hard to keep with the specified routine. That individual can devise an incentive plan that states if he or she sticks with the workout plan, he or she may go purchase for themselves a new outfit. This same proposal can be applied to incentives or rewards in the workplace. Monetary rewards and incentives works wonders in the workplace, for instance programs that employers offer in order to boost the performance levels of their employees while at the same time in return offering employees bonuses, paid vacations, cash rewards and etc. At the same time while employers offer monetary based rewards non-monetary rewards can be just as effective, while delivering more a powerful and consistent outcome with less of a financial impact. The idea of rewarding employees on a regular basis is very becoming in the business world today, the empowerment that it brings to each individual employee is priceless, which is why simple acts can go a long way at the workplace. Simple acts...
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...BUSINESS 12-13TYAABSS007-3: INNOVATIVE MOTIVATION IN ECONOMIC CRISIS: THE FLEXIBLE BENEFITS SCHEMES BY Mai Ngoc Nguyen 1215894 An assignment submitted in partial fulfillment of the assessment for the New Advances in Business (12-13TYAABSS007-3) unit March 2013 * Contents Contents 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 LIST OF FIGURES 3 LIST OF TABLES 3 1 Introduction 4 2 Literature review 6 3 The economic crisis and the transition in methods of motivation: The need for an innovate benefits package 9 3.1 Impacts of the economic crisis on employees and employers 9 3.2 The transition in methods of motivation: The need for an innovative benefits package 12 3.3 The traditional benefits package and its motivating effectiveness 14 4 The flexible approach to benefits provision in a gloomy economy 16 4.1 Effectiveness of the flexible benefits schemes in motivation 17 4.2 Factors affecting the motivating effectiveness of the flexible benefits schemes 18 4.3 Current issues influencing the adoption of the flexible benefits schemes 20 5 Conclusion 21 APPENDIX - Changes in the British WorkForce 22 REFERENCES 23 FURTHER READING 27 * EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent years, in the UK, both employees and employers have to bear negative impacts from the recession, especially employees with their financial difficulties and diverse needs. It is more important than ever for motivation. However, employee motivation is getting harder and harder in the face of...
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...HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PROJECT relationship between type of compensation and work motivation and comparison between men and women as to which type of compensation motivates which gender. BY APSARA ALI EYMEN TATHEER YUSRA TARIQUE JAMALL BS – VIII SUBMITTED TO: MR: MANSOOR ZAKIR INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY BAHRIA UNIVERSITY, KARACHI CAMPUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We, Apsara Ali, Eymen Tatheer and Yusra Tarique Jamall would like to thank Allah Almighty for his blessings and for giving us the persistence to carry out this research study. Secondly, we would like to thank our supervisor Mr. Mansoor Zakir for guiding us throughout and for all his support and gave us opportunity to do this research which also helped us in doing a lot of research and we came to know about so many new things. Finally we would also like to thank our parents and friends who helped us a lot in finishing this research project within the limited time. Table of Contents * Acknowledgements 3 * Abstract 6 Chapter 1: Background of Research Study 7 - 12 1.1 Introduction 7 - 10 1.2 Statement of the problem 10 - 11 1.3 Importance of the project ...
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...Motivated Employee: A Qualitative Study on Various Motivational Practises used in Organizational. • Overview of the article • 2.1 What the journal (article) is about: • The article is about how important drive is for success, but “being driven” is something different. Every individual has different needs. It is difficult to understand what motivates people without assesing what they need and want from their work. The motivation can effect the job satisfaction and relate to the performance. Next, to see the principles and theories of motivation, the drivers of motivation, ways to foster motivation and how managers motivated their team. • 2.2 What is the focus (Independent & dependent variables) • The dimensions of human development for business excellence is recently being followed in many organizations to improve business and employee performance. So, the researches have observed how job satisfaction can make their teams should be rewarded for their work. Whereas, motivation is the most useful to managers to understand his team members as well. • 2.3 What are the findings/samples/methodology • Managers has take the challenge to motivating his team or employees. Unmotivated employees may put a little effort in their jobs. They also exit the organization at the slightest competition and even demotivate other employees at work if given the opportunity and produce low quality work. • The researches used a sample of 20 companies...
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...and intrinsic rewards and these have kept its employees highly motivated and continue to exert their best efforts for the company. Extrinsic rewards at Google Australia include unlimited sick leave, generous health insurance, flexible working hours, and reimbursement of up to $6000 per year for educational expenses. In addition, staff can also receive small bonus rewards on a day-to-day basis. Intrinsic rewards mostly depend on the individual, but such things as getting to work with creators of Google products such as Google Earth, Gmail, and Google News can bring a sense of satisfaction to the job. Google’s intention to create a sense of fun at work and to create a culture of information sharing and collaboration can be identified by its office environment such as an informal dress code, abundant leisure activities and free food at the staff cafeterias. With these small rewards, Google employees feel a sense of belonging to the company and feel that they are creating and contributing to something bigger than themselves. Gone are the days where companies rely solely on the loyalty and lifelong devotion of the employee. This paper will argue that modern day companies need to redesign on how a balanced strategy of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards for each individual employee will better enhance employee motivation, as individuals have their own specific needs, and not be applied as a whole as their focuses may be different. A balance of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards must be applied...
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...The processes of rewarding employees and cessation of employment at “ISKANDHAR SCHOOL” Associate Degree in Human Resource Management Maldives Business School 24th May 2014 3156 words Table of Contents Executive Summary …………………………………………….……………………..………5 Introduction …………………………………………………………….…………………...… 6 1. How to reward employees in order to motivate and retain them 1. Link between motivational theory and reward ………………………………...….7 Abraham Maslow’s motivational Theory hierarchy of needs ………7 Relationship between Motivation theory and rewards…………..…..8 Conclusion ………………………………………………………...…….9 2. Evaluate the process of job evaluation and other factors determining pay The Process of job evaluation used in Iskandhar School…………10 Conclusion …………..…………………………………………………11 Recommendation ……………………………………………..………11 3. Assess the effectiveness of reward systems in different contexts Reward System used in Iskandha School ………………….………11 Conclusion ……………………………………………………..………11 4. Methods organizations use to monitor employee performance Methods of monitoring employee performance in Iskandhar School ……12 2. Mechanisms for the cessation of employment 2.1 Reasons for cessation of employment with an organization Four reasons for cessation of employments in Iskandhar School ………14 Four reasons for cessation of employments in Maldives Customs Service ……14 2.2 Employment exit procedures used by two organizations Employment exit procedures used...
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...LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Explain the motivation process and the three factors affecting performance. 2. Describe four content motivation theories. 3. Describe two process motivation theories. 4. State how reinforcement is used to increase performance. 5. List the four steps in the model for giving praise. 6. Identify the four parts of the model for writing objectives. 7. Explain the three steps of managing by objectives. 8. State ways to enrich, design, and simplify jobs. 9. Explain possible limitations of using motivation theories outside North America. 10. Define the following 16 key terms (in order of appearance in the chapter): motivation performance formula content motivation theories needs hierarchy two-factor theory manifest needs theory process motivation theories expectancy theory CHAPTER OUTLINE The Importance of Motivation What Is Motivation and Why Is It Important? How Motivation Affects Behavior, Human Relations, and Performance Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. equity theory reinforcement theory giving praise objectives management by objectives (MBO) job enrichment job design job simplification Content Motivation Theories Schedules of Reinforcement Organizational Reinforcement for Getting Employees to Come to Work and to Be on Time Motivation Techniques Giving Praise Needs Hierarchy Objectives and MBO ERG Theory Job Enrichment ...
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...assign and evaluate work, provide performance feedback, determine training and development needs and distribute rewards (Briscoe and Claus, 2008). “Performance management is a systematic approach to tracking individual performance against the targeted objectives of the organisation, and identifying strengths and opportunities for improvement” (Smith & Mazin 2004:42). Performance management refers to the on-going means by which an organization monitors, documents, corrects or rewards individual and collective employee performance in an organization by using various tools. 2.0 Employee Performance According to Tinofirei (2011), employee performance is the successful completion of tasks by a selected individual or team, as set and measured by a supervisor or organization, to pre-defined acceptable standards while utilizing available resources efficiently and effectively within a changing environment. Armstrong and Baron (2005: 122) agree that work performance management for teams is inherently the same as for individuals, and they mention the steps in performance management are agree on objectives, devise or formulate plans or execution strategies to achieve objectives, implement the strategies, monitor progress made, review and assess achievement, and redefine objectives and strategies considering the outcome of the review. 3.0 Motivation The word ‘motivation’ has been used in the variety of...
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... An industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding, Riordan Manufacturing, Inc., uses a state-of-the art design capabilities that has earned international acclaim and generated an annual earnings of $46 million. Attention to detail, extreme precision and enthusiastic quality control are the hallmarks of Riordan. With facilities in San Jose, Calif., Albany, Ga., Pontiac, Mich. and Hangzhou, China, Riordan is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion (UOP, 2006). Because of diminishing sales and uneven profits over the last two years, Riordan is faced with implementing new strategic plans to increase its profitability with an innovative customer relationship management system (UOP, 2006). The strain from the decline in sales has impacted employee morale adversely with little to motivate the workforce as its contribution has been overlooked and outright neglected. Riordon must reclaim its most valuable asset – its 550 people employees – by maintaining an innovative and team-oriented working environment and by assuring the employees are well-informed and properly supported. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Riordan was founded by Dr. Michael Riordan, a professor of chemistry, who had obtained several patents relative to processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates. Sensing the commercial applications for his patents, Dr. Riordan started Riordan Plastics...
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...requires predictable performances of a given level (quantity and quality) from every organizational member. Theorists of both cognitive and a cognitive orientations agree that managers should give considerable emphasis to tying organizational rewards to performance on the job Hamner, 1974; Porter & Lawler, 1968). The assumption (often implicit) in these attempts to encourage increased performance is that there is an additive relationship between externally mediated rewards and rewards which arise out of task performance itself. Therefore, if either one or both types of reward outcomes can be increased, total motivation or performance behaviors can be increased. In the late 1940’s a psychology professor called Harry F. Harlow (Harlow, Harlow & Meyer 1950) conducted one of the first true intrinsic motivational experiments ever performed, using a simple puzzle where a rhesus monkey needed to perform 3 simple tasks in a specific row to complete it. A simple task for a human, but a much more complex task for a little monkey. The experiment was performed on 12 primates over a 3-week period. Almost immediately the monkeys were able to solve the puzzle and they continued to solve it every time they were near it, without receiving any kind of rewards or recognition from doing so. Nobody showed the rhesus monkeys how to solve the puzzle or taught them that they even could solve it, but they still did it. Harlow concluded that it must have been due to an internal biological motivator...
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