...Teamwork and Motivation By James B. Danquah BUS 520: Organizational Behavior and Leadership Dr. Damita Goods Strayer University May 24, 2013 Abstract Hyper competition among businesses continues to increase the importance and relevance of employee motivation. This is essentially because employee motivation grants tangible benefits to the employee as an individual and consequently to organizational growth. One of the challenges facing management in the face of global competition is the designing of appropriate motivation plan that can ensure employee satisfaction and growth of the business. This paper therefore attempts to design an appropriate motivation plan for Danquah and Sons, a small manufacturing company based in Baltimore, Maryland that produces WooWoo, a widget. The motivation plan will encourage high employee job satisfaction, reduce turnover rate, increase productivity and improve quality of work. The paper proposes two methods for all employees at Danquah & Sons and looks at ways to motivate the ordinary factory low rate worker, his relevance and the need for teamwork. Theories of Motivation and Motivation Plans (Schermerhorn et. al 2012) defines motivation as “forces within an individual that accounts for the direction, level, and persistence of a person’s efforts expended at work” (p. 102). Social Scientists have developed many motivation theories, notable among which are Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory that views human needs as...
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...Teamwork and Motivation OgheneRuona Eregha Dr. Jeffrey Weaver BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational May 25, 2014 Running a company is very much like running a family. There are many schedules to comply with, different people to work with, different ideas, different beliefs, different ages/positions, and so much more. The job of a leader is to get all those different aspects of the business working in a way to where everyone can function and be productive towards the company goals. The goals could be to produce items that will sell in stores or services that will be provided to customers. Whatever the business does, it is the job of the leadership team to ensure cohesion and ensure that every employee feels like they are part of the team. Having a business with a fully functional staff is hard enough. Add in creating a team environment where employees work together to achieve goals is much harder. There are so many conflicting ideas and sometimes motivation can be a huge issue. When team motivation is down that can cause a huge decline in productivity, thus, it is very important to create a motivational plan that will encourage job satisfaction, low turnover, increase both productivity and quality work. These four items will create an output that benefits everyone. The employees will be happy working for the business and the business will be able to make profit from the...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 December 14, 2012 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The objective of this paper is to create a plan for positive influence that may be applied in a business setting and that would increase a group or team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The topics of discussion will concentrate on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that the members of the team will collaborate with, and address how each difference influences behavior within the business setting. In a business setting there are three essential factors that team members need so that they increase productivity and a constructive business environment. Additionally, the leader in the team setting must make certain that the members are inspired to complete the task by motivation. Next the norms must be set so that the team understands what is acceptable and what will not be, and agreed upon by each member. The agreement on the acceptable standards will influence the members’ behavior with the least amount of external controls. According to (Robbins & Judge, 2011, pg. 285-286), “norms are acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared by the group’s members.” Motivation The three key elements of motivation are direction, intensity, and persistence. Intensity describes the passion a person has about the designated task; this is the element most individuals focus on when thinking about motivation. However, the intensity...
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...MOTIVATIONAL PLAN Developing A Motivation Plan Grand Canyon University: EDA 575 7-6-11 Developing a Motivational Plan A motivation plan for any school is extremely important for the success of any educational program. Students who are not motivated will not learn and in turn won't succeed. Many components should be included in a motivational plan so that all the needs of students are met and each student has goals that are attainable and can be reached. According to Hersey (2008), "Goals should be set high enough that a person has to stretch to reach them but low enough that they can be attained." Goal setting, rewards, both tangible and non-tangible, and a sense of belonging are motivational components that should be included in a motivational plan. The first part of a motivational plan that I would feel essential for my school would be goal setting. At the current school that I work at, I feel like this is a missing part of our motivational plan and it greatly affects our students. Without goals, the students don't know what they are working towards, this creates confusion and a detachment from the meaning of education. Although some students may set personal goals, I feel like it's important for there to be group goals so that the students can work together to achieve them and be more motivated. Goals should be set high, but not so high that students can't achieve them. Goals that are too high would do the opposite of motivate, it would create despair...
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...Teamwork and Motivation Teamwork and Motivation Teamwork and motivation comes directly from the leadership of any company. Management must master the concept of motivating the team. Making sure that mu company’s widgets are being produced with little to no defects and being sent out in the timely manner all while keeping down cost. The objective is to design an organization motivation plan, to propose two methods to motivate all employees in the organization, to propose three ways to motivate the minimum wage service worker, to analyze the relevance of an individual worker in today’s organization context and to re-create the individual teamwork chart. Organization Motivation Plan To keep my employees motivated, job satisfaction is a really big factor. “Job satisfaction is an individual's emotional response to his or her current job condition, while motivation is the driving force to pursue and satisfy one's needs. Managers can help employees achieve overall job satisfaction, which, with the employee's internal motivation drive, increase performance on the job.” (Alshallah, 2004). Motivation opportunities such as intrinsic and extrinsic rewards can get employees motivation. Rewarding them both intrinsically and extrinsically can be a sure way to motivate my employees and overall job satisfaction. High employee turnover rate can be detrimental on motivation. An important factor for leadership to determine how high turnover is affecting the workplace and understanding...
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...Teamwork & Motivation BUS 520 Date: August 5, 2014 Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. The motivation of the team lays heavily on the leadership of the company. Managers must learn how to motivate the team in an effective manner to reach a common goal. In this case, making sure that the widgets are being produced with little to no defects, and being sent out in a timely manner while keeping costs down. The objective is to design an organization motivation plan that will encourage the team to work and achieve this goal. Highly motivated individuals can make a huge difference to the overall attitude of a team and the production. The first step in developing a motivated team is being able to understand what a team really is. According to Organizational Behavior, “A team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose.” (Schermerhorn, Jr., Osborn, Uhl-Bien, & Hunt, 2012) Team work...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR 531 January 10, 2011 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence In the 21st Century, America has shifted from individual using his or her skills to combining different employees to a group to get more work production. This is a fairly new process to many human resource departments in the United States. Companies and organizations are continuingly seeking multiple ways to increase a team motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The difficult segment of the process is dealing with human different behaviors, such as personalities, emotions, attitudes, and values. This paper will outline a positive plan that businesses will be able to implement to increase their teams production and happiness. Motivation Team motivation is one the most important elements that could help teams succeed. Industrial psychologist Fredrick Herzberg discovered during his motivational theory research that true motivators are achievement, recognition, responsibility, and advancement. To increase motivation within a team setting, these areas are required to be addressed: 1. Achievement- Ensure that each member sees his or her value of their work and contributions that help benefit the company. Allow the feedback from the clients or customer be known to the team for exceptional performance or service 2. Recognition- Managers should take time out of work schedule to congratulate and praise employees to for jobs well done. 3. Responsibility- Create new and...
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...Weekly Reflection – Week 2 This week’s primary objectives were to evaluate how attitudes and emotions influence behaviors, to explain ways personality and values influence behaviors, and to create a plan to increase employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper will analyze the information discussed by Learning Team A. Evaluate How Attitudes and Emotions Influence Behaviors Attitudes and emotions influence behaviors by the way a person acts. Their character, how they take criticism, and their composure under stress and pressure all directly affect their behavior. From a business standpoint, these things that would affect behavior would also affect how someone interacts with others which would be a determining factor as to how successful someone could be. Some people have negative attitudes about work and fall behind, while others stay positive and work through their issues. Sometimes, how an employee is treated by management can affect how employees work. Trying to build a good rapport and a positive work environment is vital to the overall success of a company. Attitudes and emotions influence behavior in a number of areas, not only in interpersonal relations, but also in life in general. A person’s attitude can determine how they handle stressful events, and their emotions guide those attitudes in the eventual construct of behavior in relation to those events. Explain Ways Personality and Values Influence Behaviors A person who has a caring...
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...Weekly Reflection – Week 2 This week’s primary objectives were to evaluate how attitudes and emotions influence behaviors, to explain ways personality and values influence behaviors, and to create a plan to increase employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper will analyze the information discussed by Learning Team A. Evaluate How Attitudes and Emotions Influence Behaviors Attitudes and emotions influence behaviors by the way a person acts. Their character, how they take criticism, and their composure under stress and pressure all directly affect their behavior. From a business standpoint, these things that would affect behavior would also affect how someone interacts with others which would be a determining factor as to how successful someone could be. Some people have negative attitudes about work and fall behind, while others stay positive and work through their issues. Sometimes, how an employee is treated by management can affect how employees work. Trying to build a good rapport and a positive work environment is vital to the overall success of a company. Attitudes and emotions influence behavior in a number of areas, not only in interpersonal relations, but also in life in general. A person’s attitude can determine how they handle stressful events, and their emotions guide those attitudes in the eventual construct of behavior in relation to those events. Explain Ways Personality and Values Influence Behaviors A person who has a caring...
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...one year to complete. To have a successful work experience and get the job done there are factors that we must consider. Start by creating a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction and performance. We must start also by evaluating each team member attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values and how they influence behavior. Diversity is in the workplace and it is necessary to improve the value of effort from each individual on the team. The three elements in a business setting to making goals achievable are motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper is to prepare a plan and apply it in a business setting in increasing the performance, satisfaction and motivation of all members of a team. Throughout the paper will be addressing the differences in motivation and personalities discover in team collaboration and how each influence behavior. Introduction When working in a group there is various types of teams that are found in many settings. Regardless of the setting of the team, accepting and appreciating the similarities and differences of the teammates can contribute more effectively and improve productivity as a whole. Creating a plan that will influence organization positively is important for management in an organization. Teams need to understand the objectives of the task and know that it is important element to the plan. This will motivate team members who are willing to indentify the job and participate in accomplishing the tasks. There are people with different...
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...A Plan for Positive Influence Teamwork is defined as an action performed by a group of people to develop goals and achieve a mission (Robbins & Judge, 2011). Working in teams is an advantage because the productivity of diversified people, working on the same task, is always greater than one person. For years, organizational leaders have recognized the value of having employees work in teams (Robbins &Judge, 2011). Companies who have choose teamwork, have expressed that the performance and work production have increased. Team work can improve job satisfaction and achievement for employees. An example of this, working in teams improves employees’ performance and also makes the work enjoyable to them. The biggest advantage of working in teams is the workload is shared among the team members. Team members will create a plan for positive influence. This plan will discuss the differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values as well as how these differences influence behavior positively in a business setting. The plan will also adopt a plan for increasing motivation, satisfaction, and performance in a team. Attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values are different with each team member. Recognizing the strengths, weaknesses, values, and personalities can help in determining what each team member can provide and how each team member can motivate each other to complete the task. Motivation, satisfaction, and performance are necessary in a business setting...
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...Motivation is important plays an important role. Motivation drives people to perform their best in assignments. “Motivation can inspire, encourage, and stimulate individuals and project teams to achieve great accomplishments. Motivation can also create an environment that fosters teamwork and collective initiatives to reach common goals or objectives” (Peterson, 2007, p. 1). The key element that will motivate our team to succeed is by goal setting. Our team is looking to achieve their goals by finishing successfully in this project. We must maintain confident and with the proper attitude our team will stay constantly motivated. The contemporary theory of goal setting theory is motivating theory that aligns with our team. For our team to ensure success, we are planning to incorporate the contemporary theory of goal-setting to complete this project successfully. “One of the most important jobs of a team leader is to motivate, support and recognize your teammates for a job well done. By recognizing them for their business efforts, it helps to build a stronger relationship with them. It lets them know that you appreciate them and their dedication to the business” (Hill, 2010, p. 1). The result of our team achieving goals creates team satisfaction. Satisfaction could improve by allowing each team member to collaborate on the area of the project that he or she engages interest rather than assigning tasks at random. “Associate satisfaction has a lot of meanings. It is really by trial...
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...a nationally known widget. My company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Motivation is one of the most important factors shaping organizational productivity. Designing a motivational plan that encourages job satisfaction, low turnover, high productivity, and a high quality of work takes time and takes the right methods of implementation by management. The key to motivation is understanding, evaluating, and analyzing the attributes of each team members contribute to the work design and team layout of an organization. As an owner of a small manufacturing company, consisting of 50 employees in the following departments: Sales, Assembly, Technology, and Administration; our motivational plan, will be designed to integrate and function within these departments. The sales department will undergo new efforts in teamwork configuration and team building, directed by the administration department. Team building is a collaborative way to gather and analyze data to improve teamwork. Through motivation and teamwork improvement; to be effective, as the owner of this company need understand what motivates employees within the context of the roles they perform. Of all the functions a manager performs, motivating...
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...shifts and each shift has its own supervisors. Production manager of the Goodman Company is Joe Smith and he has three supervisors reporting to him. The president of the company is Robert Goodman. The Goodman Company has been doing quite well, plant are fully staffed on each shift and has operated six days a week. Robert Goodman foresees greater opportunities in the years ahead, but increase in production must occur within the present physical plant, because the company does not have money for new equipment. The president of the Goodman Company decided to hire Ann Bennet as a production analyst to see if greater efficiency could be achieved with current equipment. Changes in production The Goodman Company has plant with three shifts. Workers are paid an hourly rate and each worker have to take care of every step in production, it means to procure material, cut material to required size and transport it to curing press and fill the boxes and transport boxes to shipping area. Workers use this system before changes came and Ms. Bennet made plan which should increase motivation and production. Her plan was to change hourly rate system to piecework system. Her main intentions were to replace the existing process, which had entailed each employee to complete each step within the process individually to job specialization, where each employee would be responsible for a specific function within the process. Implementation of the change in production was not successful. Before changes...
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...The phrase is very much applicable for the service-oriented companies, where employees play a huge role in the success of the company. It is believed that employee job satisfaction is directly related to customer satisfaction. The management should take decisions and develop measures to increase the motivation of its employees to serve their customers better. An employee can increase the service quality through five important dimensions, namely, discussed as below: Reliability: The ability of the employees to deliver the promised service to the customer, in promised time and error free transactions, would increase the customer base and boost sales. Assurance: The politeness, knowledge and courtesy of the employees towards customers, in dealing with the products sales and after-sales service, builds a huge amount of trust and confidence. Tangibles: The personality and well-dressed attire of employees, attractive and simple facilities, that are easy to understand, attracts the customers’ base. Empathy: Nowadays, customers demand caring and individual attention from the company’s employees, hence, personal attention provided to each customer helps in increasing the brand value and hence increase sales. Responsiveness: The ability and willingness of the employees to solve the queries of the customers, is an...
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