...Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Bonnie Lorence MGT/311: Organizational Development January 16, 2012 Dennis Hoerr After careful review of the self-assessments administered to three of Riordan’s employees, the following motivation action plan details the strategies suggested for each employee based on individual characteristics in an attempt to maintain or increase his or her levels of motivation. In regard to employee Brian Tumbarello, Riordan chose a motivational strategy and action plan conducive to the self-determination theory, “which proposes that people prefer to feel they have control over their actions, so anything that makes a previously enjoyed task feel more like an obligation than a freely chosen activity will undermine motivation” (Robbins & Judge, 2011, p. 211). Because Brian is definitely satisfied in his position, the need to increase his wage at this time is not necessary. Positive plans for motivational strategy should focus on maintaining his interest while allowing him additional freedom to make decisions. Supporting both his growth and development within the organization may allow Brian to advance into a management position if he desires. Although Linda’s performance rating appears to be low, she does possess skills and knowledge beneficial to the company. Motivational strategies suggested for her would...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. |Team Member Name |Summary of Individual Characteristics |Motivational Strategy and Action Plan |Relevant Theory | | |She is satisfied at her job. She makes rational |Yuselin doesn’t need much motivation, she is satisfied with her |Because Yuselin is happy with what she is doing | |Yuselin M. |decisions. Emotionally intense. Emotional |job. She is also engaged. Some incentives needs to be in place |the McClelland theory fits her current situation.| | |intelligence. Moderately engaged at her job. Also |so that Yuselin can stay engaged and satisfied with her job. | | | |moderately happy with what she does. |However more responsibilities needs to be placed in her hand so | | | ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan * Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. Team Member Name | Summary of Individual Characteristics | Motivational Strategy and Action Plan | Relevant Theory | Garrett | Garrett score relatively high (84) showing that he is satisfied with his job status within the company. He requires challenging jobs on a regular basis to keep his learning capabilities in tune. | Because of his ability to perform any new types of jobs efficiently and abilities in reading other people’s moods, it is warranted to give Garrett mild leadership roles. | Theory Y fits Garrett because he is natural at work.Hertzberg’s Two-factor theory also fits because Garrett works harder and more efficient when given recognition and responsibility. | Charlie | Charlie prefers to be at work over play. His values for the company are above and beyond many other employees in the same line as Charlie. His lack of emotional ties to others warrants him to work alone versus in a team, even though he gets along with everyone. Emotions are valuable at times when working...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. |Team Member Name |Summary of Individual Characteristics |Motivational Strategy and Action Plan |Relevant Theory | | |Chris is satisfied with his job, is willing to |Chris is happy, engaged with his job, and would require minimum |Job Engagement Theory – Chris is inspired by his | |Chris Fletcher |devote considerable time to work, can face obstacles|motivation. He is most concerned with the ability to have more |work, satisfied and committed to his job, and | | |without stress. He is happy with himself, his job, |freedom, input, and variety with his work. |performs his job above average for the position | | |and others. He is competent in coping with |The strategy would be to change his position in the company to |which shows that he is engaged in his work. He | | ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. |Team Member Name |Summary of Individual Characteristics |Motivational Strategy and Action Plan |Relevant Theory | | |Once Katieann is motivated and engaged she enjoys |I think the best action plan and motivational strategy for |The goal setting theory will be the best for | | |her job. Even though, she is going through some |Katieann is encouraging her with giving her small but |Katieann as it focuses on giving the employee | |Katieann |emotional issues, she keeps them under control. |challenging tasks. Giving her positive feedback can lead to |attainable goals with some reward. As she | | |Katie is a team player and will help out other |better performance from her. By giving her goals, and the |achieves each goal, this could give her the | | ...
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...Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan MGT/311 June 30, 2013 Abstract Motivation is the process that determines how hard an individual works to achieve a goal. There are several modern theories of motivation that will help managers meet the motivational needs of their employees. Using the most appropriate theory of motivation will ensure that the motivational strategy and action plan selected will be effective and achieve the desired results. Keeping employees motivated will help the organization run smoothly and efficiently. Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Of the several modern motivational theories that are currently used, three have been selected to create a motivational action plan for the Riordan employees. Each plan is designed to help motivate the individual employee and keep them functioning at their highest level of quality. The motivational theory that has been selected for Jami is the self-determination theory. This theory is based on the belief that people need or want to control their own actions. The motivational action plan follows this theory by giving Jami some decision-making power. The action plan also offers verbal acknowledgment of the work that she performs. These actions will help keep Jami motivated and encourage her to strive for greater success. The motivational theory that best fits with the personality characteristics of Breana is the goal-setting theory. This theory focuses on the belief that by giving an employee...
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...Week 3 Individual Assignment – Employee Portfolio Motivation Plan xxxx xxxxxx MGT/311 Organizational Development April 16, 2012 xxxxxx xxxxxxx University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees, based on their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. Team Member Performance Rating Summary of Assessments Motivational Strategy and Action Plan Relevant Theory Andy Robles How Satisfied Am I With My Job? Score 96 What Is My Emotional Intelligence? Score 40 Am I a Deliberate Decision Maker? Score: 31 Am I Engaged? Score: 35 How Are You Feeling Right Now? Score: 39 What’s My Affect Intensity? Score: 37 Andy is overall satisfied with his job and rarely is absent. He has proven to be accurate in perceiving, evaluating, expressing feelings. Andy is conscientious, a team player and dedicated. Andy will benefit from reward and motivational strategies. He is receptive to attending trainings to improve his skills. Andy is determined to promote and it is obtainable because he is diligent. Self-efficacy or social cognitive theory is based on an individual that believes that they are capable of doing a...
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...Motivation Action Plan David Evinrude MGT 311 March 3, 2014 John Clair Motivation Action Plan Employees are a critical element to the successful operation of a business and building customer satisfaction in the field. Understanding an employee's behavioral characteristics helps management understand the strengths and weaknesses of an employee while providing them with valuable information to help them develop a strategy to keep them motivated. The motivational strategy that a manager develops for each individual employee could either make or break the organization when it comes to the customer or job satisfaction. After reviewing the employee's assessments and management performance, similarities were discovered between each employee. Each employee seemed to have middle to higher emotional intelligence and were pretty involved in their current positions. A couple of the employee's seemed to become bored with tasks and would lose their focus when it came to tasks that need to be completed while the other employee was focused with the tasks at hand. Upon reviewing each employee's portfolio, it seems each person required the same type of action plan to keep them motivated. In developing the motivational action plan, each employee had a common area that would help keep them motivated. The goal setting approach was identified as a key motivational strategy for each employee. Goal setting provides each person with a defined set of goals that need to be completed within...
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...Wildlife Conservation Adam Burdick Bryant & Stratton College NSCI 280 Professor Wooten 10/20/2013 Human beings are considered to be the most advance species on the planet. This also makes us the most intrusive species on the planet. We effect our environment more than any other living creature. Our populations continue to grow exponentially each year and as they do we intrude on other species habitats even more. Considering we are the most advanced species it is our responsibility to ensure the safety of all other species and do what we can to shorten the endangered species list. The conservation of wildlife is an incredibly important goal that all people should take part in. “Successful species conservation has often been defined as simply the avoidance of extinction” (Redford 2011.) This is the most important goal of anyone interested in wildlife conservation. It is important for us as a species to take responsibility and make the effort to keep other species away from extinction. Wildlife conservation is not something that can only be handled by professional members of organizations. Anyone can do their part to help protect a species in need. In some cases it is as simple as refraining from harmful activities such as hunting for sport. Hunting is a major conservation concern (Selvan & Veeraswami, p11.) If people raise awareness about how hunting effects the populations of large bodied animals perhaps we can help to reduce the damage done to these...
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...Biodiversity Paper Biology as a science concerned with living organisms, said organism’s function, origin, structure, and distribution is defined through numerous subdivisions and branches. Conservation biology is a branch, which deals with certain factors threatening biodiversity as well as the preservation of genetic and biologic diversity of animal and plant species. Threatened, endangered, and extinct species are only some factors that may influence biodiversity. Any given species has to meet a certain criteria to suit the previously named terms. Conservation biologists are concerned with numerous species because of said species’ influence on the interrelation within their ecosystems, and the interruption of such ecosystem when the numbers of a certain species are drastically decreasing. Conservation biology is concerned with the maintenance of species, their genetic variation, ecosystems, and communities within such ecosystems. Biodiversity includes “The variety of life and its processes, including the variety of living organisms, the genetic difference among them, and the communities and ecosystem in which they occur” (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 2004, p. 1). Even though the term “species” is complex, and some definitions may differ slightly from others “A species is often defined as a group of individuals that actually or potentially interbreed in nature” (Berkley University, n.d., p. 1). Therefore, a species is defined as the greatest gene pool that can...
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...Employee Portfolio: Motivation Plan of Action Summary MGT/311 Employee Portfolio: Motivation Plan of Action Summary Motivation plays an important role when it pertains to professional development in employees. The management team at Riordan Manufacturing is currently in week three of an assessment period of three employees. The purpose of these assessments has been to try to understand the employees’ state of emotion, characteristic traits, and job engagement. Week three focuses on motivational techniques and a plan of action that is specifically designed for each employee evaluated based on the employee self-assessment survey taken two weeks earlier. Personality Traits It has been documented in these assessments that just because an employee is unhappy with his or her current job state do not necessarily mean that he or she does not show a sense of pride in the work to be completed. Laura, for example displayed dissatisfaction with her current job state and the wages, but given a task to complete, this employee dedicates a great deal of her time to ensure that the project is completed in detail as well as on time. Linda is a devoted employee who shows management that she is a self-starter and often completes tasks without requiring direction to do so. The issue management has with this is often the task gets started and completed without added guidance if needed. Olivia, though improving, has shown supervisors contempt toward...
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...TALKING POINT PAPER ON MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE Wanda Teasley Assignment 2: BUS520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Evangeline Jefferson 04/09/2015 TALKING POINT PAPER ON MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE * Synthesize the concept of motivation, and examine the substantial reasons why motivation is difficult to understand. * What is motivation * the driving force behind the energy needed to complete a task(psychologydictionary.org/motivation) * manner that begins, influences, and retain goal-oriented manners (psychology.about.com) * what causes us to act (psychology.about.com) * Understanding motivation is difficult * complex and hard to teach (Berry, John) * Evaluate the potential effectiveness of the model positioning of motivation, and propose at least one (1) action that the organization can take in order to apply the concept. One of the models positioning of motivation include the 5 factor model: * According to (Robins, Stephen P page 125) the five factor model comprises: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience. * these traits indicate to management how an individual will behave in various situations Detail the feedback control loop, and suggest one (1) way that the organization can use the feedback control loop to determine whether management’s actions are motivating or demotivating. * Feedback control loop allows...
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...Jessica Boyd Week 3 Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan April 21, 2014 Susan Mills Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan One of the most important aspects of a supervisor’s job it to ensure that his/her employees are happy and satisfied with their career. Motivation is defined “as the process that accounts for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal” (Robbins & Judge, 2011). In the motivation plan that follows there are several different motivational theories that have been chosen for the three employees at Riordan Manufacturing which will be used in the effort to increase performance within the company. Samuel Boyd– Goal Setting Theory After reviewing the self-assessment survey taken by Samuel Boyd, there are many motivational theories that could be used; however the theory that will produce the best results for him is the goal-setting Theory. Samuel’s assessment indicates that he is willing to try new things but allows personal or professional setbacks to keep him from going after his ambitions. In order to motivate him management will use the reward system which will connect to the goal-setting theory and making sure his is setting obtainable, realistic goals. This will motivate him and encourage him to continue to strive for more out of his career. It is management’s understanding that Mr. Boyd has set unrealistic goals in the past which is the main reason for his frustrations and ultimately giving up on...
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...Employee Portfolio Lidia Reyes January 14, 2013 MGT/311 Mary Roberson University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. |Team Member Name |Summary of Individual Characteristics |Motivational Strategy and Action Plan |Relevant Theory | | |Self-motivator, engaging, positive, polite, |Robin your motivational strategy is to accomplish the task |The theory that is relevant to this strategy is | | |responsible, hard worker, punctual, technology |assigned In a timely manner. You will team up with your front |the Self-Efficacy Theory because Robin is an | |Robin Molina |savey, resolve task in a timely manner, and |end supervisor and learn to do all the weekly reports that |individual who believes that he can perform any | | |organized. |belong in your shrink binder. ...
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...Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Creating a Motivational Plan As a manager of Riordan Manufacturing I have assessed three of my workers, created employee portfolios for them, and now I will determine which motivational strategies will work best for them. This week’s class discussion has focused on creating motivational strategies that are based on the individual characteristics of employees. These strategies are tailored to each worker’s traits, and therefore are more effective. In this essay I will discuss the motivational plans that I have chosen for each of my workers. Plan #1 Plan #1 is for my mother, Lynda, and for the purposes of this essay is an employee of Riordan Manufacturing. The summary of her individual characteristics is overall positive. She scored high in all categories of the assessment taken during week one of this class. She does not need any correction, but she can still use motivational techniques to enhance her performance at her job. I recommend both the Self-Efficacy Theory, and the Goal Setting Theory. The text states that, “Self-efficacy (also known as social cognitive theory or social learning theory) refers to an individual’s belief that he or she is capable of performing a task.” (Robbins & Judge, 2011, Chapter 7: Motivation Concepts). The text also states that it is even more beneficial when the Self-Efficacy Theory works in conjunction with the Goal Setting Theory. “Goal-Setting Theory addresses these issues, and the findings...
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