...Motivation and Stress: A Discussion of Management Recommendations for a Local Hospital The following report was written by a private consultant hired to examine the issues being experienced by Delmar General Hospital with their nursing staff. The report begins with a discussion of nursing, moves on to an overview of motivational theories, as well as stress and its effects on motivation. The issues occurring within this hospital with their nursing staff will be reviewed and interpreted by the private consultant. The private consultant will then conclude with a discussion of her final recommendations in terms of what can be done by Delmar General and their management staff to increase motivation and decrease stress levels, with examples from supporting research. No matter what ones goal may be, motivation always plays a big role in achievement. In the workplace, individuals must be motivated to perform their best however, frequent conflicts can often hinder ones motivation levels by causing stress. Managers within the workplace can attempt to achieve maximum productivity while maintaining a positive employee affect through the use of various kinds of motivational plans. The nursing profession is one of many within healthcare that deal with a lot of stress and motivational issues. Currently nursing is facing a series of issues that makes understanding stress and motivation very important for healthcare managers. It was estimated by the US Department...
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...the management Junior and senior managers feel losing power because of the practice of empowerment. Most of the managers waste time on dealing with minor issues. The general manager John Becker is sick of giving minor decision instructions to his subordinates. Organization – The Regency Grand Hotel Verbal and written complaints from the customers increase rapidly. The prestige of the hotel is replaced by negative feedbacks given by the public. The business is definitely losing money. *Relating to Organizational behaviour* concepts Empowerment Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of theindividuals. It often involves the empowerment developing confidence in their capacities. In some situations empowerment could motivate employees. The problem in the hotel is the measurement of a major or a minor issue. There is not a definition or standard states what a major issue is. Actually employee needs to know what he/she can touch and what he/she cannot. Conflict comes when the management disagrees with the employees’ view. For example, a guest goes to the front-counter people and asks for a room upgrade. The front-counter boy thinks he could do that without approval from his superiorbut the front-counter manager may think it is a big issue because it would affect the profit of the business. What the front-counter boy has done may annoy the front-counter manager. Job design According to...
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...organization is going through a restructuring process such as downsizing, a manager must employ a combination of motivational methods to maintain performance. During difficult times human behavior may change to reflect the surrounding environment. In an organization where people fear the loss of their job or the closing of the company fear is the focus and performance may suffer. It is therefore a manager’s job to motivate his people or team so that the change is met well and head on. In order to motivate people during a downsizing or any difficult time a manager has to first understand the principles of human behavior. Another thing a manager must be familiar with is the many theories of motivation, because a manager will need to call on these theories to find methods that can be used in motivating the personnel. Zonig (2006) introduces the Temporal Motivational Theory (TMT), which is built on the focus of the fundamental features of picoenconomics, expectancy theory, the cumulative prospect theory, and the need theory. Since people are unique and when working together very complex, the need for the use of several theories and the knowledge for understanding human behavior is very important in order to apply motivational techniques that will get people to work together toward a common goal. Zonig adds that, because any particular theory necessarily deals with a subset of motivational factors, therefore it will have trouble in realistic situations (2006). For this reason Zonig creates TMT...
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...Team B CJA/444 January 12, 15 Professor Walton Barnes • Stress One tool that is critical to the success of any law enforcement officer’s career is the ability to cope and deal with stress. Stress in the workplace is a significant factor in most career fields and has spurred numerous scientific studies (Beehr, 1995, Jex, 1998). Law enforcement is no exception to work related stress, and could be considered by some to be one of the most stressful fields of work. Using the Beehr and Newman Facet Model (Beehr and Newman,1978), Employees in a work environment can be affected by both personal situations and workplace situations. Depending on how employees deal with stress, it can affect both their personal lives, and their lives in the workplace. For law enforcement officers, stress at the workplace can arise from being involved in dangerous situations, experiencing traumatic injuries to other individuals, or being required to work unconventional hours. Officer’s need to deal with these stressors, and can do so in both positive and negative ways. Some positive ways an officers can deal with stress is through exercise or developing new hobbies. Negative responses to stress can manifest themselves in such destructive ways as alcoholism and drug abuse. If Officer’s are unable to develop positive ways to deal with stress, it could possibly lead to career ending mistakes. Inmate/officer Conflict Much research and many studies...
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...Casino Evaluation and Recommendations Angela Retchko PSY/435 11 June, 2012 Christopher Reid Casino Evaluation and Recommendations In the scenario provided there are two main issues that need to be rectified immediately; that of retention of dealers who are dissatisfied with the pit boss, and the recruitment of quality housekeeping staff to alleviate the excessive burden on current housekeepers. Although these issues impact guests as well as the casino, the focus must remain on these two factors in order for other areas to reap positive affects. There are a number of viable options that may be utilized to rectify the current situation, however extensive research and data gathering takes time and clearly the situation has gone beyond the expiration date for lengthier I/O methods. With this in mind, the proposed recommendations based on general analysis and a few assumptions have been provided for the short-term, with more extensive action to be employed for future harmony and balance within the organization. Analysis and Recommendation The casino is having extreme difficulty retaining their dealers as, “on several exit interviews, many of the dealers have cited the pit boss, Joe, as being “toxic, overbearing, evil, and incompetent.” (syllabus, 2012, p. 5). To add to the issue, Tom, the organizations HR director fears explaining the situation to the casino owner because Joe is the owner's step-son. Due to the precariousness of the situation, Tom's fear may be warranted...
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...| | |People, Work & Organizations- MGMT20124 | |Assessment 1- Report | |Case Study Not as Easy as 1, 2, 3 | | | Contents Executive Summary 3 1- Introduction 4 1.1 Background to the report 4 1.2 Scope 4 1.3 Aims 5 2- Discussion 6 2.1 Organizational Justice 6 2.2 Perception errors 7 2.3 Stress 7 2.4 Exit-Voice- loyalty-Neglect model 8 2.5 Team work 8 2.6 Motivation 9 3- Literature review 9 3.1 Organizational Justice 9 3.2 Maslow’s needs hierarchy theory 12 3.3 Expectancy theory 14 4- Solutions and suggestions 18 4.1 Organisational Justice 18 4.2 Stress 19 4.3 Improving feedback process 20 5- Conclusion 21 References 23 Executive Summary There are three purposes for this report. It attempts to indentify the problems in the case study Not as Easy as 1, 2, 3. Accordingly, it discusses about six main problems in ABC consulting firm that have negative...
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...Psyc 110 Quiz and Final Exam Study Guide YOU MAY WANT TO PRINT THIS GUIDE. 1. The quizzes and final exam are "open book, open notes." The maximum time you can spend on a quiz is 45 minutes. On the final you will have 3 hours and 30 minutes. If you have not clicked the “Submit For Grade” button by the end of the allotted time, you will be automatically exited from the exam. In the final exam environment, the Windows clipboard is disabled, so you will not be able to copy exam questions or answers to or from other applications. 2. You should click the “Save Answers” button in the exam frequently. This helps prevent connection timeouts that might occur with certain Internet Service Providers, and also minimizes lost answers in the event of connection problems. If your Internet connection does break, when you reconnect, you will normally be able to get back into your final exam without any trouble. Remember, though, that the exam timer continues to run while students are disconnected, so students should try to re-login as quickly as possible. The Help Desk cannot grant any student additional time on the exam. 3. See Syllabus "Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information. 4. Reminders * You will only be able to enter your online quizzes and final exam one time. * Click the "Save Answers" button often. * If you lose your Internet connection during a quiz or the final exam, logon again and try to access it. If you are unable to enter it again...
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...Bachelor Thesis Organization & Strategy Job motivation and stress factors What is the relationship between job motivation and stress factors and how do they contribute to overall job satisfaction? 6751 words Stefan Geurts ANR: 476831 Bachelor Thesis Organization & Strategy Preface After finishing my bachelor degree in the summer of 2008, I started a pre-master program at Tilburg University. Writing this thesis is the final assignment that has to be completed, in order to proceed to the master Strategic Management in the next academic year. I would like to thank Mr. D.P. Kroon and my group members for giving feedback and guiding me during this assignment. 2 Bachelor Thesis Organization & Strategy Executive summary This paper examines the relationships between job motivation, stress and satisfaction based on former literature. In general motivation is positively related to satisfaction and stress is negatively related to satisfaction. According to Herzberg (1987) job motivation is determined by motivators and hygiene factors. Motivators lead to satisfaction, absence of hygiene factors leads to dissatisfaction. Important motivators are achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility and growth or advancement. The main hygiene factors are company policy and administration, supervision, interpersonal relationships, working conditions, salary, status and security. When trying to increase motivational potential of jobs, managers have to increase the motivators on the...
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...Motivation, Stress, and Communication BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior November 18, 2012 Motivation, Stress, and Communication 1. Create a brief job description for a position within the company you research that you would like to fill. The company that I would like to have a career with is Aflac. Aflac is a Fortune 500 company that leads the industry in voluntary insurance products that pay cash directly to policyholders and is one of America's best known brands. The position that I would like to have is Senior Strategy Analyst. I would serve as a lead analyst in a strategic role assisting with development, analysis, implementation, change management, and benefits realization of critical transformation programs, processes, and activities for operations within the United States. I would report directly to the Vice President of the Transformation Office and interact with personnel throughout Aflac. I would perform complex research, analysis, and interpret data obtained by management and other groups in order to define business strategy and operational problems and to support business decision making. I will also perform other duties as they are assigned. 2. Discuss ways that goal setting could be used to motivate your performance after you fill the position. Goal setting is something that doesn’t come easy for me, because as I looked at it, it is just another New Year’s resolution that I made but didn’t follow through with. But...
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...Work & Stress Vol. 22, No. 3, JulyÁSeptember 2008, 224Á241 The Job Demands-Resources model: A three-year cross-lagged study of burnout, depression, commitment, and work engagement Jari J. Hakanena*, Wilmar B. Schaufelib and Kirsi Aholaa a Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, and Research Institute of Psychology & Health, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Downloaded By: [University Library Utrecht] At: 08:58 19 September 2008 b By using a full panel design in a representative sample of Finnish dentists (N 02555), the present study aimed to test longitudinally the motivational and health impairment processes as proposed in the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. The second aim was to investigate whether home resources and home demands have an additional influence on both processes over time. The hypotheses were tested with cross-lagged analyses based on two waves over a 3-year period. The results supported both the motivational process and the health impairment process. Job resources influenced future work engagement, which, in turn, predicted organizational commitment, whereas job demands predicted burnout over time, which, in turn, predicted future depression. In addition, job resources had a weak negative impact on burnout. Home demands and home resources did not influence the motivational or health impairment process over...
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...Motivational Methods Motivation should be a key element in the workplace and is very important to for management to know the basic theory methods as well as the application of those methods. It is something that is an unavoidable situation for all of us and comes up in any workplace. Motivational techniques are a necessary skill for any future manager or leader to know how to motivate their staff in order to work more efficiently. It is true that motivating employees is a key issue for all managers (Motivating Employees) to achieve a higher level of performance and productivity. Different employees need different types of motivation (Good & Bad Employee Motivational Techniques). The main question managers face within an organization is motivation, how it works, when to apply and to whom they should apply it to (The Top 10 Motivational Techniques in Business). Motivation reflects how productive things get done within the organization. Motivation influences productivity and supervisors need to understand who motivates employees to reach their peak performance (The Top 10 Motivational Techniques in Business). After all, motivation is a conscious decision to perform one or more activities with great effort (Motivating Employees). It includes the set of attitudes and values that helps a person to act in a specific goal which is directed in such a manner that affects his or her direction, intensity and persistence of voluntary behavior (Motivating Employees). Motivated behaviors...
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...A Report On Employee Demotivation Submitted to: Mr Shaiful Islam CEO Human Resource Department Grameen Phone Submitted by: Mr Khalid Mahmod(1020088) Director Mr Atiqur Rahman(1020102) Sales Executive Mr Taifur Rahman(1020099) Planning Executive Mr Toufiq Islam(1020077) Procurement Executive Date of submission: 22 November 2010 Grameen Phone Block-B,Road-16 Bashundhara Residential Area Dhaka 1217 Telephone:+8802 9987456 Fax:+8802 9652314 E-mail:info@grameenphone.com Websie:www.grameenphone.com ...
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...Southwest Airlines’ Motivational Profile PSY/320 Southwest Airlines’ Motivational Profile According to Merriam-Webster (2011), the definition of motivation is “a motivating force, stimulus, or influence” (p. 1). Based on Johmarshall Reeve’s Understanding Motivation and Emotion, this definition is widely customary by many psychologists, but what psychologists cannot agree on is what causes motivation. In fact, this topic has been on a rollercoaster ride over many decades by gaining and losing popularity of psychologists. Keeping of this in mind, some of today’s top companies keep motivation near and dear to everything that they do. The chosen organization for this research is Southwest Airlines, and the following paragraphs will take a close look at the history of the organization, corporate culture, management, and the motivational strategies used. The History of Southwest Airlines When many people today think of flying in aircrafts, they do not realize that this mode of transportation started only 107 years ago with Wilbur and Orville Wright. Only 64 years later in 1967 Southwest Airlines, known as Air Southwest incorporated, and applied for license to fly (Southwest Airlines, 2011, p.1). 1971 Through 1981 Numerous legal battles with Continental Airlines and two other airlines at the time occurred in the Texas State Court and Texas Supreme Court from February 21, 1968 to June 17, 1971. The next day, June 18, 1971, marked the first day...
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...HR Performance Issues and Motivation Vada Taborn BUS610: Organizational Behavior Instructor: Martin McDermott Date: December 22, 2014 HR Performance Issues and Motivation It is common for motivation to be used in the workplace in order for goals to be reached by employees. In the workplace, it is absolutely necessary that both management and employees are able to concentrate on their work. There are many things that can motivate someone into acting or behaving a certain way. A person’s productivity can be determined by the motivation that they receive not only from their work environment but also from outside influences. Money is not the only influence that can motivate an employee. Sometimes showing an employee how much their hard work is appreciated can motivate them into working harder. There are many motivational problems that can make it very difficult for goals to be reached. Motivational problems may come from the workplace, while others occur outside the workplace, but all of them can influence a worker’s performance. A person’s personal life can be the most common motivation problem. It is necessary to separate personal life and work but it is sometimes difficult to do and family affairs may affect performance at the workplace. There is always a need to be able to totally focus on work in order for organizational goals to be reached. The issues that a person has in their person life can be motivation problems that make it hard for goals to be attained. Some of the personal...
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...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 | | |environmental demands...
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