...Jabed Alam w1537441 Seminar Teacher: Kamala Balu In your opinion which two motivation theories would be most usefully integrated into a model of motivation for an organisation looking to motivate and retain new graduates early in their careers. You must clearly justify the choice of theories chosen for this occupational group. Today this essay will be analysing and expressing two motivational theories. The theories will be concluded and conducted in the thesis of retaining and maintaining new graduates within their early stages of the working environment. The organisation that has been chosen to be based upon within this essay is Zara, the clothing company. After interpreting the essay question I have decided that the two controversial theories I will be assessing is Maslow’s theory that is constructed upon the hierarchy of needs as well as Fredrick Taylor and the application of scientific management and the motivational influence of money. I will be engaging and implementing my own opinion as to why I feel these theories are justifiable for the chosen occupational group, along with providing key research, highlighting benefits and drawbacks of these theories. Initially my essay will begin with the theory hypothesised by the man known as Abraham Maslow. I will briefly describe the main factors that are included within Maslow’s theory. Maslow refers to a pyramid of hierarchy that shows the basics needs that a worker requires in order to successfully be motivated....
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...As a manager its important to be able to motivate their subordinates. Motivation is one of the three key factors included in the equation to increase employee performance. What exactly is motivation? Motivation is the set of forces that initiates, directs, and makes people persist in their efforts to accomplish a goal. Motivating employees is a lot easier said than done. The three core challenges managers face when trying to motivate employees are satisfying their needs, providing extrinsic and intrinsic rewards, and effort and performance. In order to motivate people one must satisfy their needs first. Needs are the physical or psychological requirements that must be met to ensure survival and wellbeing. An unmet need creates an uncomfortable, internal state of tension that must be resolved. For example, if one loves to play a sport but they’re not very good, their motivation is going to be practicing to become better. Many theories indicate that people are motivated by unsatisfied needs. What needs motivate people? Well it depends on which theory is used. The four theories that we focused on in class were Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, Aldefer’s ERG theory, McCelland’s Learned needs theory, and Herzberg Two-Factor theory. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory says people are motivated by these five factors; physiological: food and water, Safety: physical and economic, belongingness: friendship, love, and social interaction, esteem: achievement and recognition, and self-actualization:...
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...Motivation Motivation refers to a secondary process within a person or animal that causes that creature to move toward a goal. The goal may be to satisfy a biological need, as in eating a sandwich to reduce hunger. The goal may be to complete a psychological goal, such as having fame, money, or a good marriage. The real definition of motivation is the need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. This often involves choice, length, power, resolution, and emotional response. Motivation can be seen as both stable and unstable. Motivation can be seen as behavior, or stable personality of individuals. Motivation can be seen as a temporary state that changes in response to environmental or internal states. There are four perspective theories of motivation: Instinct theory, Drive-Reduction theory, Arousal theory, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Instinct theory is replaced by the evolutionary perspective. Instincts are complex behaviors that have fixed patterns throughout different species and are not learned. When the instinct theory of motivation failed, it was replaced by the drive-reduction theory. A physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. Drive-Reduction Theory Emphasize the interaction between inner pushes and external pulls. The physiological aim of drive reduction is homeostasis. Homeostasis is trend to maintain a balanced; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood...
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...Motivation Theory Essay Maurice Flowers Jr. MGMT 317 August 21, 2012 Person A is the most likely answer. Having filled managerial positions in the Navy, I have had the opportunity to experience and use many types of motivational techniques. Satisfying employee needs seem to be the easiest and least resistance path to motivating employees. Unhappy employees are definitely not good for business. They tend to deliver poor service and poor results, and are unlikely to feel committed to company objectives or motivated to go the extra mile. They also create missed opportunities, which can undermine the success of your organization. Companies have several options that can result in increasing employee satisfaction. Every business, large or small, has a great deal to gain from investing in employee satisfaction. When you make employees feel happier with their work, the odds of an employee badmouthing your policies-or worse, your products-to customers, potential buyers, vendors, or competitors will be reduced. Even more important, a satisfied staff will be much more motivated to put in the extra effort required to make the company more productive and profitable. Happy employees become loyal employees, which can dramatically reduce attrition rates and lower the associated hiring and training costs. While you can invest in a wide variety of formal and often expensive initiatives to boost job satisfaction, the most powerful tool is one...
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...Volunteer motivation People use their time and efforts to volunteer for various reasons (Bang & Ross, 2009). It means that different volunteers may have different reasons for the same activity or may have same reason in various activities. (Cuskelly et al., 2006) Also, volunteer motivations are that people want to help others and for a personal or social benefit. (Hoye et al., 2008) In this regard, there are numerous studies about the motivations of sports volunteers that using different models or scales as follows: Olympic Volunteer Motivation Scale (OVMS) (Giannoulakis et al., 2007), five factors (altruistic value, personal development, community concern, ego enhancement, and social approval) (Wang, 2006), five factors (solidary, purposive, external traditions, commitment/status, and skills) (Smith and Dickson, 2013), systemic quality of life model (SQOL) (Shye, 2010) In order to understand the motivations of volunteers in Mega-sporting events, a study by Giannoulakis et al. (2007) investigated motivations of volunteers...
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...Extra Motivation Essay Doesn’t everyone need a little motivation sometimes? Whether it’s to go to work, to exercise, or to achieve one of their goals, a little extra motivation never hurts anybody. Stephen King’s Quitters Inc., follows a man who joins a firm to knock his bad habit of smoking, with tons of obstacles along the way guaranteeing his decision to quit. By examining achieving their goals, staying off of their phone in class, and doing their homework, one can see that sometimes a teenager needs extra motivation to accomplish something in life. One can see by examining a teenager, that they may need extra motivation to stay off of their phone during classes. Being on their phone during class time can distract the student from getting his/her assignments done to the best of their ability with all of their attention on the teacher or paying attention to the lessons being taught. If a student receives a text message that upsets or angers them, their mindset will change and this can keep them from doing their best to succeed. Donatti gave Morrison the extra motivation he needed by using his family as a motive to quit for good. To get Morrison’s full attention, Donatti states “Oh no, your wife gets the rabbit trick, not you,” (King, 217). This shows Donatti using a rabbit as an example to show Morrison that he needs extra motivation to quit smoking. If Morrison puts one cigarette to his mouth and lights it, his wife will get put in the electric room and she will be shocked...
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...five-paragraph essay on this topic using the outline below. Your essay should include an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Visit this site and study how to write a five-paragraph essay. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/five_par.htm “Why college education is important to me” 1. Support your essay with your motivations, dreams, goals and aspirations, inspiration, plans, reasons, rationalizations, quotes, anecdotes, research. 2. Employ correct rules of sentence composition, grammar, and mechanics of style. 3. Use at least two references. Each reference must use a quoted passage and be appropriately cited to avoid plagiarism. 4. Include a bibliography at the end of the essay. 5. Turn in at least two full pages or up to three pages of writing, 12-pt. Times Roman, double-spaced. 6. Pay attention to spelling, grammar, and punctuation. 7. Use this basic outline: a. Introduction b. Body Paragraph 1 c. Body Paragraph 2 d. Body Paragraph 3 e. Conclusion f. Bibliography This is the end of the Writing Assessment. WRITING ASSESSMENT EN110 Achieving Academic Excellence Directions: Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. For this assignment, you are asked to review and exercise your writing skills. Write a five-paragraph essay on this topic using the outline below. Your essay should include...
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...money as well should be transferred as such in order to improve the situation,resentment among team members escalated, why is because others were notcompetent enough to do the work (Mokate 2007).The members of the team should be tolled of their expected roles to play within thegroup or teamwork and team skills seems to be a stagnating point to solving issues andprogressing. Teamwork skills include the following as stipulated by Scarnati (2001:5)“lack of listening skills, lack of respect, sharing, helping and participation. As teams growlarger, the skills and methods that people require grow as more ideas are expressedfreely but the problem is other teams cannot keep up with the rapid growth of teams andoften experience the following problems: • Absence of trust – it develops from the teams unwillingness to be vulnerablewithin the group and team members are often not genuinely open with oneanother about mistakes and weaknesses and making it impossible to build afoundation for trust. • Fear of Conflict – teams that lack trust are incapable of engaging in unfilteredpassionate debate of ideas and instead the only solution is resort to veileddiscussions and guarded comments.The causes of teamwork failure is group size cause large groups less productivityand coordination losses is mostly to take place within that organization, meaninginefficiency that result from the group member’s inability to combine their resource in a maximally productive way. Social loafing is the other ingredient...
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...I chose to do my journal on the essay "Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer," written by William Lutz. The purpose of this article is to describe how in today's society, we use other words to hide the negative connotation of its real meaning. In the essay, the author uses a descriptive language in an attempt to make an emotional connection with his audience. The way the author uses descriptive language in his article is by using familiar words to compare with unknown words to help prove his point in how today's' society hides the true meaning of what it is saying. I think William Lutz did a great job in using descriptive writing in his essay. This paper is a persuasive essay, and he used different words to make an emotional connection...
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...Essay Question Discuss the Murdoch University School of Health Professions ‘Nursing Inherent Requirements’ (see module one). Explain why you think these are important and how they apply to professional practice, using references to support your discussion. Examine your suitability to become a Registered Nurse in relation to the inherent requirements, by reflecting on your motivation, goals, personal qualities and experience. The word count for this assignment includes the essay only; from introduction to conclusion (including headings and subheadings if present and in-text referencing). The word count does not include title or contents pages, assessment criteria or end-text referencing / reference list. This assignment should be written in an academic style with well-structured paragraphs and using APA 6th edition referencing. A size 12 sans-serif font should be with used (e.g. calibri, arial, tahoma, trebuchet etc), with 1.5 line spacing. Default (2.54cm) margins should be used, paragraphs should be separated by one blank line OR the first line of each paragraph indented, and pages should be numbered consecutively. To begin your assignment, please download and use the word document provided in the Assessment section of the unit LMS Home Page, so that the Essay Assessment Criteria Sheet is included as the first page of your assignment. Remember to submit your assignment to Turnitin and edit as required before submitting for marking. When you are ready to submit your...
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...At the beginning of this course I feel like I was a very poor writer. I rarely wrote and hated doing it. Now after completing several papers, I feel that I am much better at it. I know now the correct way to format my papers in MLA style. I’ve learned how to create thesis and how to structure my essays properly. I am better now at being able to find information online and putting into my own words or using it to gain knowledge on my topic. I've noticed that I am now able to write a lot more about a given topic then I used to be able. Last year I could not write over a two page paper. Now, I feel like if I’m writing about a topic that I am interested in and there is a lot of information about, that I can write for a much longer time. The essay...
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...This pack contains tasks for discussion in lectures and tasks for preparation and discussion in tutorials. Please refer to the lecture PowerPoint slides to understand the purpose of these tasks in the lectures. Lecture 2 Task Standing on the shoulders of giants: Summarising and Paraphrasing Sources A researcher is investigating how different universities approach the issue of academic integrity. He has found the following case study on the website of iParadigms, which developed the software package Turnitin for plagiarism detection. He decides he wants to use some of the information in the report. Strengthening Honour Codes through Plagiarism Detection[1] Academic integrity was suffering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Each of the university’s schools had an ethics committee to investigate charges of academic dishonesty, but there was no uniformity in how standards were applied or enforced. There was also no mechanism for sharing information between schools regarding serial cheaters. And because it was faculty-run, the students had little investment in the system and therefore took it lightly. To address these shortcomings, the University reinvented their approach to honour codes on campus. Instead of faculty-run ethics committees for each school, they established a Student Honor Code Council, serving the entire campus, which was responsible for writing the honor code and evaluating cases of honour code violations. The university administration, faculty...
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...decisions and too little guidance and support. But what is a bad decision and how do you figure it out? Sometimes all you need is a little something that will show you the answer – Motivation leads you to the right thing to do! This is some of the Topics that we are dealing with in the short story called A Gap of Sky. A Gap of Sky is a short story written by Anna Hope and published in 2008. It is about a 19-year-old girl struggling against the inner voice of her, which is telling her to cut out her studies and have fun instead. By having fun I mean drinking and doing drugs. Because that’s what Ellie is good at. She has been sent to London by her parents to study, but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do, because she has been partying all night and can’t remember much. She wakes up and starts stressing because of an essay that she has to write, about Virginia Woolf. But she needs printer ink, so she goes out into the world searching for printer ink. On her way searching for printer ink she experiences a lot. The 19-year-old Ellie is the main character. Her parents have sent her to London to study but she doesn’t really care, instead she drinks and does a lot of drugs. But at the same time it seems like Ellie has two sides. Because she’s also stressing about the essay that she still needs to do and she’s okay staying up all night doing it as...
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...POG 100 First Draft Marking Template Research Paper First Draft | Marker’s Alias: Leonhart | | Author’s Alias: Spearow | I. STRUCTURE/ORGANIZATION | Comments | Introduction: HookDoes the essay begin with a hook/brief introduction that situates the topic more broadly? The hook should make it evident why the topic is interesting and important to generalist and specialist audiences.Does it draw the reader’s interest? How could it be improved? | Positive * Hook introduces the topic in a great way, by analyzing a healthy government, and introducing the topic of how, to succeed it needs the help of the people who vote them in. Improvements * The author could give an example of a regime that turned on its people, (Syria) and thus lead to the overthrowing of the government (Arab spring) to further relate to the reader and gain its interest. | Introduction: Thesis StatementIs the thesis statement easy to identify? E.g. “This essay argues…” Is it clear? Does it make sense? How could it be made clearer and more easily identifiable? | Positive * The thesis is clear and makes sense “this essay will argue that societal politics are derived from the motivations of the middle class as it pertains to the state flourishing” Improvements * The factors that relate to this topic could be further addressed in a few words. What are these economic needs? Etc.… | Introduction: RoadmapDoes the roadmap state how the paper will prove the thesis statement in several parts? E.g....
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...Welcome to my second essay of this semester! In this short essay, I will be pointing out a few key moments and symbols in the journey of Crystal in Jessie Van Eerden’s Glorybound. As I was reading this story, I was automatically drawn to Crystal. I felt that her character had a lot of depth as a result of her history both with her father and with Ronnie. Personally, I felt that these two figures played pivotal roles in shaping Crystal as she appears in the end of the book. I used these two figures in Crystal’s journey to give context and background to the causation of her actions and transformation. I chose to focus on Ronnie and Cord, rather than Aimee because I wanted to try to draw out possible motivations and incentives for her actions....
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