...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 problems that...
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...* GM 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Course Project Outline Ashanta’ Savage 2331 Turnesa Avenue, Sacramento Ca, 95822 ashantasavage@hotmail.com 916-844-9269 GM591 ON/SEC V – Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Anne Hallcom February 19, 2011 DeVry University is an accredited nationwide University whose headquarters are based in Chicago, Illinois; there has also been global expansion to Belize and Calgary. DeVry University’s primary goal and focus is providing quality practitioner oriented education to students and has for nearly 80 years. “The Sacramento Center, as the campus is called, is booming. Marcela Iglesias, who has been dean since it opened in 2003, estimates that the campus will exceed its capacity of 825 students within a year, and DeVry officials have begun to search for more space.” (Keller, 2010). Along with DeVry University, Carrington College, Ross University, Keller Graduate School of Management, Becker and Stalla have also been acquired under the DeVry University Inc. umbrella and are affiliated with the brand. Advanced Academics is a school recently acquired that is targeted to middle school and high school students as a means of completing their middle school and high school degrees, to ensure a greater chance of success and continuing their education after they graduate; and also been acquired under the DeVry University Inc. umbrella and are affiliated with the brand. “DeVry's origins trace back to 1931...
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...have to worry about employee motivation issues? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motivation is an aspect of managerial function of directing under execution. It is necessary as a means to induce people to work, as they are able and trained to do willingly. In other sense, Motivation refers to the process by which a person’s efforts are energized, directed, and sustained toward attaining a goal. Though most of us have to work for a living and job is the central part of our lives, still managers have to worry about employee motivation issues as there are many reasons for it. In an organization, individual Performance is considered to be a function of ability and motivation. Ability depends on education, experience and training and its improvement is a slow and long process. On the other hand motivation can be improved quickly. It is understood that employee motivation is vital for a company's success. A business that suffers from employee motivation issues is subject to decreased production, faulty manufacturing or other breakdowns in the normal operation of the business. The job of a manager in the workplace is to get things done through employees. Managers must be able to recognize flagging motivation and build employee morale in order to maintain expected performance levels. To understand motivation one must understand...
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...the workplace. Nevertheless, even today, managers and leaders seem to ignore how this psychological aspect affects the workplace. In organisational settings, stress can generate very significant consequences on a number of different aspects, including employee motivation. For this reason managers and leaders must consider stress factors and provide effective stress management initiatives in the workplace (Nikkos et al., 2010). This paper will outline the main aspects of stress in the workplace and how it affect employers in organisational settings. The effect of stress in the workplace can have dramatic consequences within the workplace. Stress can affect the employee’s behaviour with other employees, Stress can significantly reduce employee concentration and even affect mood swings. Stress also reduces the likeliness of the success of any motivation techniques implemented by managers and leaders. Motivation plays a very important role in all organisations. Generally, high levels of employee motivation can have a positive effect for business entities, helping them to achieve success and organisational aims. Different experts have investigated the subject. The examination of the notion of motivation within work settings has become the focus of the work of several theories of management science. Employees must be motivated to work effectively and efficiently. Stress can lower the employee’s motivation levels...
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...employees motivated is a problem in most organizations, because not all individuals are motivated in the same way. When individuals lose interest in the workplace this can cause problems for the organization as a whole, then the overall production and morale suffers. There are different techniques that can be used to help managers motivate their employees. Some of the techniques to understand are positive and negative reinforcement, nonmonetary incentive programs, award programs, recognition awards and showing appreciation. Managers can motivate employees by understanding what motivation is and by discovering what drives each individual by using different techniques to motivate each employee. II. Motivation A. Definition of Motivation Motivation is “defined as the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior” (Kinicki, Williams 376). Motivation “is not a one size fits all”, each employee is their own person and what drives them to effectivley perform while on the job is an important factor for managers to be knowledgeable about (Broder). B. Why Motivating Employees is Important Employees within an organization play a key role in how the company runs. Knowing about the different techniques that are used can help managers succeed in keeping their employees motivated. Businesses today are successful because the company invests in their employees by offering them different incentives to keep them motivated (Caan). The average employee is only employed with...
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...explain to you about the motivation in the workplace. In order to have success in the workplace todays workplace, you have to have an understanding of how to establish morale that will produce high results from employees and overall company results. Motivation is the key to for any business that wants to be successful. Motivation is determined by many things but motivation can’t be determined by the economic environment because that fluctuates. However, the ultimate goal is to create an environment that will engage the employees in the workplace and make them feel more important and considered a vital asset to the company. Motivation has been defined as the psychological forces that are determined by the direction of the person’s level of effort. Trust, engagement, values, job satisfaction, rewards, and acknowledgement are all factors of what drives a successful workplace in today’s market. Companies want to retain talent in the workplace because who’s to say that you will come across that talent again. The main focus is to meet goals and by meeting goals, you have to go beyond expectations to make something stand out like “sore thumb”. Some people think that managers are the ones who make sure that employees are happy and being treated fairly. However, they are, but the main department to oversee that would be the HR department and organizational leaders. They are the ones to tend to oversee that there is excellence and happiness in the workplace. The expectations for...
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...ILM Course Level 3 Understand How To Motivate To Improve Performance AC1.1, AC1.2, AC1.3, AC1.4, AC2.1, AC2.2, AC2.3 Table of Contents Define the term motivation 3 Define the factors that may affect motivation levels in the workplace 3 Explain how individual differences affect levels of motivation in the workplace 3 Explain the potential impact on organisational performance if employee motivation levels are low 4 Describe a recognised theory of motivation 5 Describe ways in which knowledge of a theory of motivation can be used to improve performance in the workplace 5 Explain how to use employee engagement to increase motivation levels 6 References 7 Bibliography 7 Understand How To Motivate To Improve Performance Define the term motivation The term motivation in my opinion is a strong desire to achieve something. The drive to be motivated I believe comes from aspirations or enthusiasm to achieve a goal or target (whatever that might be). More often than not though I think motivation or the desire to do great things can also be inspired by support from other individuals. Motivated people work with enthusiasm. Define the factors that may affect motivation levels in the workplace Salary Bonuses and incentives play an important role in keeping employees motivated, but usually work best as part of a comprehensive program that provides opportunities to grow. A carefully designed rewards program in my opinion will reinforce behaviours...
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...Workplace Motivation Paper M. Singh University of Phoenix February 01, 2009 PSY/ 320 Workplace Motivation Paper Motivation plays an important part of every organization. Motivation in organizations can be accomplished by finding whatever gets everyone going. Motivation will not be the same for every organization but by finding out what that thing is, the company can be sure the organization will be successful at whatever they attempt (Fitness Equipment & Health, 2007-2008). Motivation is the inner power or energy that pushes one toward performing a certain action. Motivation is a dynamic process – always changing, always rising and falling – rather than a discrete event or static condition (Reeve, 2001). A person’s motivation can change quickly. Motivation is the force that makes individuals do things which results in an individual need being satisfied and in completing a task. Motivation strengthens the ambition, increases initiative and gives direction, courage, energy and the persistence to follow one's goals. A motivated person takes action and do whatever is needed to achieve his or her goals (Sasson, 2001-2009). Motivation results from actions that satisfy inner needs. Motivation is the intention of achieving a goal, an ability to change behavior, that inner directing drive, leading to goal-directed behavior towards the attaining goal. Motivation is intrinsic (internal); it comes from within based on personal interests, desires, and need for fulfillment...
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...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 alone does not lead to a favorable job-performance outcome unless the effort is channeled in a direction in alignment with...
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...the Model of Emotions, Attitudes and Behaviour in the workplace, the causes and management of stress and motivation as these tools impact the individual behaviour of an employee to a large extent. (McShane, Olekalns&Travaglione, 2010) First the problems have been identified and then analyzed using the above mentioned models and methods. Finally the advantages and disadvantages of the methods and models used are discussed and then the assignment ends with recommendations and a conclusion. 2.0 Identification of the problems Companies are striving to answer many questions in efforts to benefit from positive employee behavior in the workplace. The goal of most companies is to foster a win-win situation for both the company and a good employee environment (David, 2007).A happy satisfied employee can do a much better job than a disgruntled unmotivated employee. However, there are many problems in this case. Peter as a management account is regarded “moody” and is not well liked by his staff, he is “stolen” Mike’s revision plan and so on. All of this behaviour is bad influence Fran and other employee’s emotion, and give the employee too much stress. Peter also told to some of his employee do not talk to Fran, it is really made Fran shame. Vernon as the Chief cost accountant is easygoing employer, but when he gave some advice to Fran, it is no help to her. Rob as the Chief accountant is not handle the problem well, when he ask Fran to take the workshop he need consider...
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...TRIMESTER 2011/2012 NAME OF LECTURER: DATO’ DR. ZULKIFLI IDRIS “MOTIVATION IN THE WORKPLACE” NAME OF STUDENT: MOHD HAFIZI BIN ABDUL FATAH MATRIC NO: GM04509 Introduction In today business world, many business managers are not aware of the effects that motivation can have on their business. Therefore, it is very important for the graduating students of University of Putra Malaysia to learn and understand the factors that determine positive motivation in the workplace. Regardless whether the business is MNC (multinational company), or SME (small medium enterprise), every single employee needs some of form of motivation to motivate them as a strategy to attain organizational goals. Later in the following content, we will see the importance and effects of motivation by identifying key factors that determine the rate of motivation in employees of any organization and how these factors are linked directly to their individual needs, behaviour and attitudes. According to the book written by McShane (2010), he said “motivation is the driving force by which humans achieve their goals.” Importance of motivation In the organization, motivation is very important elements in the whole management process. Motivation is use for encouraging employees to make positive contribution for achieving organizational objectives. Motivation is necessary as incentive in order to get better performance. Advantages of motivation: 1. Increase in the efficiency and productivity of employees ...
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...Running Head: MOTIVATION CONCEPTS ANALYSIS Motivation Concepts Analysis Name Human Motivation PSY 320 Faculty Date Introduction on motivational concepts Motivation is comprised of at least 3 components: direction, effort and persistence. Additional factors to motivation are intrinsic: “self generated factors such as responsibility, skills and abilities, interest, opportunities for career advancement and extrinsic: things that motivate an individual such as rewards, promotional opportunities or punishment.” (The Manager, 2007) According to the text, Understanding Motivation and Emotion by Reeve, “motivation is the study of the processes that provide behavior with energy and direction.” (Reeve, 2001) Describe how the theory of intrinsic motivation would and would not be applicable if applied to two or more workplace situations drawn from personal experience Some types of intrinsic motivation for employees are: challenge, interest, learning, meaning, purpose and creative flow. Intrinsic motivation is self generated and can be more effective when an individual has a general interest in something that has appeal to the individual. Intrinsic motivation requires a manager to engage an individual in a task and inform them of the benefits and impact on the employee. About two years ago our company was rolling out a third party record keeping platform. This required testing of our existing database systems for compatibility. My manager wanted me to be a subject matter...
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...Running head: Motivation, Conflict, and Ethics Motivation, Conflict, and Ethics University of Phoenix Motivation, Conflict, and Ethics As an employee of a Medicare contractor communication is a vital aspect of the work environment. There is a 24 hour hotline which serves as means of communication between employees and human resources. The use of a 24 hour hotline as a communication method allows flexibility among the staff in receiving information. Professional, societal, and individual ethics are a very important part of the corporate culture. Being a contractor the company has to be trusted in dealings with companies and also personal information. Internal policies and procedures reflect a conscious effort to maintain high ethics among staff. They have gone so far as to establishing a dedicated phone number and email for employees to report any unethical behavior. This company does its best to hire employees with high individual ethical standards. Employees are also trained thoroughly on ethical procedures in the workplace that all staff are expected to adhere to. Motivational theories The motivational theories used by the Medicare contractor include production quotas, bonus incentives for hitting quality and timeliness requirements, and push days. The production quotas are reviewed on a weekly basis, and managers communicate the percentages to the employee: offering praise, pointers, or management help to bring substandard percentages up to expectation. Bonus incentives...
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...specializes in skydiving, sky surfing, hang gliding, paragliding, gliding, ballooning, and micro lighting. These services are provided for TV and movie production, demonstrations, publicity stunts, and marketing campaigns. In the past, Airdevils’ won several awards both nationally and internationally every year. Recently they haven't won any awards. They feel customers are expressing their dissatisfaction with the quality of stunts. Additionally, many important employees have left the organization, and there has been a decrease in job satisfaction among the existing employees. The owner and founder Celsey wants to get to the root of the problem and increase both job and customer satisfaction in order to put Airdevils’ back on the right path and get them winning awards again. Recommended Solutions In this simulation I thought the cause of the problem was that the employees feel they can't do what they joined the company to do, the stunts are routine and not exciting, and the management don't take into consideration the suggestions made by the employees. With this my recommended solutions are to enter new lines of stunts to help bring excitement back into the routines. I also suggest rotation in an industry meets to break up the monotony. Training in other stunts is another suggestion to help get the employees excited about their job again. I also suggest allowing participation in open competitions to help give employees the freedom to go out and try new things to bring diversity...
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...scientifically it will be possible to find one best way to do it. It implies application of scientific principles for studying & identifying management problems. In this, he proposed that by optimizing and simplifying jobs, productivity would increase. He also advanced the idea that workers and managers needed to cooperate with one another. This was very different from the way work was typically done in businesses beforehand. A factory manager at that time had very little contact with the workers, and he left them on their own to produce the necessary product. There was no standardization, and a worker's main motivation was often continued employment, so there was no incentive to work as quickly or as efficiently as possible. Taylor believed that all workers were motivated by money, so he promoted the idea of "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work." In other words, if a worker didn't achieve enough in a day, he didn't deserve to be paid as much as another worker who was highly productive (Taylor, 1909). Hence scientific management is a thoughtful, organized, dual approach towards the job of management against hit or miss or Rule of Thumb. Principles of Scientific Management 1. Development of Science for each part of men’s job (replacement of rule of thumb) a. This principle suggests that work assigned to any employee should be observed, analyzed with respect to each and every element and part and time involved in it. b. This means replacement of odd rule of...
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