...frustration will most likely develop. How unproductive an organization is can be seen in the given scenario. JC’s Casino is an organization with various problems. Therefore, the author of this paper will describe the problems occurring at JC’s Casino while offering two or more work motivation theories to help with employee recruitment and retention at JC’s Casino. Additional occupational stressors that negatively influence the recruitment and retention will be also mentioned. In addition, the role of job satisfaction and its influence on retention at the casino will be addressed while providing recommendations for improving job satisfaction and retention. Counterproductive employee behavior will also be described and suggestions for a change proposed. JC’s Casino has been experiencing many...
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...Abstract The purpose of this assignment is to examine the impact that stress, job satisfaction, and motivation can have on workplace performance and commitment. We will examine how motivation theories, organizational commitment, the difference between stress and stressors, and ways that an organization can help an employee to cope with stress and motivate their staff. This examination will point out limitations from both an employer and employee standpoint and combined theories from the three different chapters by Colquitt to help determine a plan of action for those who decide to proceed with the positive changes. Introduction There high costs but financial and reputable, associated with workplace stress, job satisfaction, and employee motivation. Here we will discuss the impact of job satisfaction, job characteristics that help explain specific workplace situations, the consequences that stress has on employers and their employees, motivation theory, and some feasible approaches from both an employer perspective and an employee perspective on how to indicate the issues and had while working on a solution that will impact everyone involved in a more positive manner. Context/Situation The situation I will refer to in this paper is one where I was an employee in a small business of about ten. At this company the work was divided by states. There were four matchmakers: one for the west coast, one for AZ, one for NYC, and one for the east coast. While I was the youngest...
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...Theoretical Models Colleen M. O'Leary HCS/587 March 18, 2013 Theoretical Models The benefits of a motivated staff should prove an impetus to managers to use motivation as a driving force to obtain a high degree of functioning by employees. According to Musselwhite (2011) “managers who are effective at motivating their direct reports reap the reward of employees who can handle a variety of assignments, work more autonomously, report higher levels of job satisfaction, and contribute more to the success of the department, the organization, and in return, to the success of their manager” (p. 46). This in turn may motivate the manager to work harder and look at ways to improve and increase departmental functioning in the future. In health care managers have diverse staff to motivate. Employees may be of varied ages, experience, educational levels, and job descriptions. Staff ranges from minimally educated secretarial staff to professionals such as licensed professional nurses, physicians, and physician extenders (Borkowski, 2005). The manager who takes the time to get to know the employees he or she is responsible for will know the individual positive or negative attributes of each employee. This will assist in determining how best to motivate everyone for the good of the department. Many motivational theories exist but only equity and goal-setting theories will be discussed here. Equity Theory Theory Description Equity theory basis relies on the comparison of inputs...
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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 | John S. | With the company 12 years Strong work ethic but not challenged seems to be burned out or stuck in a rut. | Increase the challenge change up his tasking. Put him with new team to revitalize his skills. | | Kim B. | With the company 5 years. Shows strong leadership skills. Very hard charging. Great work ethic. Team player. | She is self-motivated. Offer her more opportunity’s to lead and take charge. Place her with mentors for future guidance. | | Robert F. | With the company 1 year. Show signs of being a future leader still need honing. Has shown a wiliness to push hard and get the job done. | Keep challenging with goal based jobs. Get him to step up to new task and place in a team that has strong team unity. | | Motivation Action Plan Based on the self-assessment of John S., Kim B., and Robert F. the company has...
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...Case #1 Resistance to Change Incident: As office manager of the Worthless Paper Products Corporation (WPP), Minnie Reems was responsible for the work of approximately forty employees, of whom 26 were classified as either data processors or clerks. Acting under instructions from Kenny Count, the company CEO, she agreed to allow F. Taylor Group, Ltd., (FTG),a team of outside consultants ,to enter his realm of responsibility and conduct time and motion,and systems-analysis studies in an effort to improve the efficiency and output of her staff. The consultants began by studying job descriptions, making observations, and recording each minute detail of the work of the data processors and file clerks. After two weeks ,they indicated to Reems and her employees that they were prepared to begin even more detailed studies, observations, and interviews on the following day. The nest morning, five employees participating in the study were absent. On the following day, ten employees were absent. Concerned, Reems investigated the cause of the absenteeism by telephoning several absentees. Each employee related approximately the same story. Each was nervous, tense, and tired after being viewed as a "guinea pig" for several days. One data processor told Reems that her physician suggested she could ask for a leave of absence based on her complaints of carpel tunnel syndrome if she needed to. Another told Reems, "We ain't no ‘Hawthorne' happy hoppers here in this shop! And, we ain't...
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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 | | | | | | | |50+ white female |Job satisfaction is high, but employee is stifled in her current| | |MPO |34 years of service, currently part-time status |position. To ensure continued job satisfaction, goal-setting | | | |married, local resident, mother of 7 |theory and reinforcement theory could prove effective for this |Goal setting | | ...
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...lick the link above to submit your assignment. Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment" in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 3: Motivation, Stress, and Communication Due Week 6 and worth 200 points Research a company at which you would like to work (not your current employer) and write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Create a brief job description for a position within the company you research that you would like to fill. Coca-cola 2. Discuss ways that goal setting could be used to motivate your performance after you fill the position. eating habits, exercise, rest, goals, earn respect, self motives, 3. Analyze your own reactions to stressful situations and discuss the steps you could take to manage the stress associated with your new position. 4. Imagining yourself in the position you have described, discuss how you would address nonverbal and cultural barriers to communication. 5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title...
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...C1. Team Goals Our team met via conference call and set out clear tasks for the team to achieve its goals. The team leader allowed the team to engage in conversation regarding how the team would best function and each team member accepted a specific responsibility. We agreed on the following goals: Have task two be a first time acceptance, have a better understanding of leadership styles and how they work together, use this task to make us better leaders and commit to the most open and honest communication with our team members. The goals for each week were set to aid us in accomplishing the team goals. Our tasks were clearly outlined in the week assignment to include due dates for each assignment as well as the specific items to be completed. Our team also created a team identity “Dynamic Dames" this was an indication from the first meeting that the team was energized to complete the task and goals ahead. C1a. Achievement of Goals Our team was very serious in working towards achieving its goals. Assignments were turned in a timely fashion and each task was met weekly. There were two instances when team members needed an extra day to turn in the assignment. They effectively communicated their challenge and ask the team for their understanding. Our team leader was time on task with her task and hand the same expectations of her team members. Team members agreed to communicate every Monday evening by 8:00 pm and each member lived up to that method of communication. The...
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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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...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 | Bianca Housley | Bianca shows promise and satisfaction yet when presented with a problem she does the best to her abilities to handle each situation. | Bianca needs to keep motivation going by making rewards that turn into success. | Bianca has self-determination that is based on internal satisfaction to her actions at her highest level of reflection | Alma Hall | Alma has the characteristic of a leader. She has the general attitude to preform job satisfaction. | Alma needs to maintain open communication with her employees. Give her employees operating to give their own idea and the use some of them openly giving employees a feeling of responsibility. | Alma has organization theory that she like to enhance threw development, social planning and social action. | Kecia Mack | Kecia has showed that her attitude need major improvement toward herself and others. | Kecia require...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Team B CJA/474 May 5, 2014 Ashley Webb Motivation and Empowerment Motivation and empowerment are very important aspects of leadership in any organization. Halting someone with ambition serves no purpose; however, many in leadership roles who do not understand the front line theories involved serve to offer nothing but confusion and discourse among their men. According to “More, Vito, and Walsh” (2012), “Motivation is a predictor of overall effort as an individuals ability, and an organizations support will determine the level of an officers job performance (p. 181). Knowing this concept wins, in this paper we will compare motivation and empowerment, discuss components of empowerment, and implications of empowerment to an organization, as well as the roles of trust with personnel issues. Comparing Motivation and Empowerment Motivation and empowerment go hand and hand, let’s start by defining what is Motivation? The process, by which a person’s efforts are energized, directed and sustained toward attaining a goal. Someone who is motivated will forth effort and work hard to accomplish their goal, and they will channel their energy in doing what is best the company, and one will stay the course and be diligent and persistent in achieving the goal. What is Empowerment? It involves helping others build their own power bases, most company will go all out by empowering their workers with tools that will benefit their business and help the company...
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...Introduction: Developed by Prochaska and DiClemente in 1983, the Trans-Theoretical Model is one of many popular theories, which is used to describe the event of changing a behavior. It is said that the Trans-Theoretical Model (TTM) is a theory of behavioral changes which "intentional behavior change is a process occurring in a series of stages, rather than a single event and that motivation is required for the focus, effort and energy needed to move through the stages” (Miller, W.R., Rollnick, S., 2002). What makes the Trans-Theoretical Model so unique, is that it describes how change occurs over time and not immeadiately. According to Prochaska & DiClemente (1983), this theory proposes that a person may progress through five stages of change when trying to modify their behaviors. In the first stage titled pre-contemplation, we have people who have no intentions of taking action, or wanting to change their behavior in the near future. Many peers suggest that the desire to change a behavior is usually measured within the next six months (Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992). Individuals in this stage are unaware or uninformed of the consequences of their behavior (Scholl, 2002), or they may have had a number of failed attempts and are reluctant to try again (Prochaska & Velicer, 1997). Prochaska et al. (1992), says the main component of pre-contemplation, is the person shows resistance to recognize or modify problem behavior. For an individual to move out of this stage...
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...enable the utilization of the appropriate tools. This in effect should serve as a foundation for future projects and focus the community in order to achieve the desired outcome. Within a community there are levels of prevention that are highly recommended when attempting to provide care to the community. Statistics have revealed that the proper implementation of levels of prevention can reduce aggressive disease progression in a target community. Obviously, to allow real change to take place amongst the aggregate it is imperative to properly identify the levels of prevention and apply the levels to the appropriate aggregate needs. In addition, to selecting the appropriate levels of prevention there is also a theoretical model that must be chosen accordingly to the needs of the aggregate. The chosen aggregate are sexually active elderly who are at risk for contracting sexually transmitted diseases. This paper will discuss how to utilize the level of prevention and identifying the appropriate theoretical model. Levels of Prevention As a community health nurse their are three levels of prevention that is utilize when caring for the community. The levels of prevention helps to identify which types of care is needed for the community and better identify the problems that plague the community. The first level of prevention is known as the education level. It helps to limit the promotion of disease within the community by increasing the members knowledge and awareness. A good example...
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... Abstract The body of work that relates accounting numbers to market measures of systematic equity risk was largely undertaken in the 1970s and early 1980s. More recent proposals on changes in accounting disclosure of risk mean that a rigorous theoretical model of the relationship between accounting measures and market measures of risk is timely. In this paper such a model is developed. In addition, the assumptions required to develop the model are explicitly identified. By so doing it becomes possible to identify the potential cross-sectional differences which drive the empirical relationship between accounting and market based measures of risk. The model developed highlights a clear relationship between accounting and market measures of risk which can be exploited in situations where accounting data alone is available. It also provides a framework within which the environmental factors leading to cross-sectional differences between companies can be further explored. On Accounting Flows and Systematic Risk I. Introduction Work that relates accounting numbers to market measures of systematic equity risk was largely undertaken in the 1970s and early 1980s (Ryan, 1997). More recent proposals on changes in accounting disclosure of risk (Scholes, 1996) mean that a theoretically sound model of the relationship between accounting measures and market measures of risk is timely. In addition, the...
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...Smoking is a prevalent behavior all around world, and it brings about a series of risk consequences about health. According to WHO( 2009), more than 5 million people die from diseases related to tobacco use worldwide each year, and it is expected to grow. Even just the number of those who died from second hand tobacco smoke has increased up to 600,000 each year (WHO, 2009). In Australia, smoking is considered to be the key risk factor for the three diseases that cause most deaths: heart disease, stroke and lung cancer (Health Insite, 2010). It is responsible for around 80% of all lung cancer deaths and 20% of all cancer deaths, and additionally, smoking has also been linked to cancers of the mouth, bladder, kidney, stomach and cervix, among others. Smokers are also at increased risk of having reduced lung function from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(Health Insite, 2010). Using tobacco has been linked to a variety of other conditions, such as diabetes, peptic ulcers, some vision problems, and back pain. Smoking in pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth (Health Insite, 2010). Meanwhile, the impact of smoking on children who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke includes a greater risk for respiratory illness, higher rates of respiratory tract infections, and sudden infant death syndrome (Dossey & Keegan, 2009). Moreover, smoking is a hard habit to get rid of, because tobacco contains nicotine which is highly addictive. Therefore, success in...
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