In this assignment I will outline how an organisation motivates its employees, compare the use of motivation theories in an organisation and suggest, with justification, ways of improving in an organisational settings
Motivation Organisations will try to motivate their employees so they have the will and desire to work harder even if it's just by a bit. There are different methods of motivation that makes employees come to work every day. There are different theories of motivation also rewards. The main 4 theories I will be talking about is: Taylor, Mayo, Maslow, Herzberg Taylor and Frederick Taylor.

Taylor developed his theory of "scientific management" as he worked his way up from a labourer to a works manager in a US steelworks. From his observations, Taylor made three key assumptions about human behaviour at work: Man is a rational economic animal concerned with maximising his economic gain and people respond as individuals, not as groups and people can be treated in a standardised fashion, like machines. Taylor had a simple view about what motivated people at work - money. He felt that workers should get a fair day's pay for a fair day's work, and that pay should be linked to the amount produced Workers who did not deliver a fair day's work would be paid less (or nothing). Workers who did more than a fair day's work (e.g. exceeded the target) would be paid more. The implications of Taylor's theory for managing behaviour at work were: The main form of motivation is high wages, linked to output a manager's job is to tell employees what to do and a worker's job is to do what they are told and get paid accordingly

Elton Mayo did not accept that money was the only motivator and he carried out the Hawthorne Experiments at a plant in Chicago to try to discover what really drove people. His Relay Assembly Test proved that workers were inspired by directing