...Teamwork and Motivation BUS 520 Teamwork and Motivation As the owner of WooWoo limited there still exist challenges especially when it comes to dealing with the company’s human resource. The sales are doing well but as the management we need to evaluate any strategies that we can implement to further motivate our employees. The first step is to pin point the problems currently being encountered in the human resource department and the level we want to achieve in the future. After evaluation of the problem, I will conduct research on modern workable policies that can be employed at WooWoo. Then the next step is the formulation of the policy complete with its implementation timetable. Finally, is the implementation stage which is extremely crucial? In researching the problems it is important to include members of the staff since the problems affect them directly (Mitchell et al., 2003). In order to accomplish high job satisfaction the first important step is orientation into your firm. This creates the first impression of the company to the new employee. The human resource department will craft up and implement an Orientation and On-boarding program that shows the new member of the staff that WooWoo is a company that recognizes hard work and rewards effort competitively. The company will set up standards to measure effort of individuals and reward them appropriately (Pinder, 2008). The rewards...
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...located in Dallas, Texas, and also manufactures the widget, WooWoo. Success through teamwork is our business motto and it embodies the culture of Jones Enterprises. Over the years WooWoo, has become a success and it’s all because of you, the employee. We are thankful to you and the effort you’ve made to ensure WooWoo becomes a household name. To continue with the success we’re experiencing with WooWoo, it is imperative that make some adjustments. Per our recent consumer surveys, we were made aware that some defective widgets were put out on the market. As a result, deliveries are being delayed and costs to replace the defective widgets have increased. This comes as a surprise to management because in previous years returns were less than one percent. After compiling the data from the consumer surveys, we decided to give you, the employee, a survey on your job performance, management, and work environment. We also asked you to give any suggestions on how we can improve. The results of the employee surveys have been calculated. Per the survey, many of you stated that you were getting bored with your daily tasks. After weeks of deliberation, we’ve put together an organization motivational plan that will be given to each team member. The motivational plans main focus is team work, which we believe that through teamwork, we can achieve more and continue to provide to our consumers, a state of the art WooWoo. Over the next six weeks, we are expecting the motivational...
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...manufacturing company. All must come together and work collectively as a team to achieve the common goal of designing, producing, and selling the widgets. Each role of the sales, assembly, technology, and administration, all work collectively... One of the many factors that form the driving force behind a successful organization, human resource is one of the most critical ones. A successful organization needs to have the right set of people doing the right kind of jobs. With every profile of work comes an expectation of appropriate compensation. It is more often than not decided based on industry standards. As the company under consideration faces the problems of increased cost and delayed delivery due to increased defects in the product WooWoo, there seems to be a drop in the motivation level and reduced team work...
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...established when the members of a team, collaboratively, achieve a specific goal. This is recognized through the strategies, procedures, and other methods that members of a team use to reach that goal. Motivation is recognized through conditions that account for the level, direction, and persistence of effort used at work. (Schermerhorn, pg. 102) These conditions, either mentally or from the environment, promote the individual or group of people to perform and fulfill certain actions to achieve a goal. As the owner of a small business of fifty employees, there are situations that can occur that can ultimately either cause the business to be successful, or to fail. My company creates widgets; cloned from a widget that is known nationally. The WooWoo is a less expensive widget and is also more readily available to obtain, whereas the original widget is not. Our company’s sells are high which is great for the company, but unfortunately there are a lot of defects in our widget, which has cause costs for the product to be more expensive. Another issue that has transpired would be with our delivery methods. Throughout the company, we have four departments that employees work in: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Through research and implementing a motivational plan, my goal is to ensure that the employees feel valued and get the job done. Organizations have numerous methods and strategies to encourage job satisfaction, gain higher levels of productivity, influence high...
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...Teamwork and Motivation Teamwork and Motivation Job satisfaction within the work place is becoming the most important factor for employees these days. However, many employers are finding that over time due to the lack of satisfaction within a particular job position the company is having a high turnover rate, less production of work and the quality of an employee’s work is poor. This is where the challenges come into play for many employers and finding ways to increase job satisfaction so businesses stay competitive and employees are happy. The responsibility of ensuring all employees are satisfied falls into the hands of the leader for that company. Incorporating ways to ensure job satisfaction encompasses several key indicators that should be included in a company’s Motivation plan and they are; providing a positive work environment, involve and increase employee engagement, providing rewards and recognitions, developing the skills of your employers, providing evaluations and monitoring job satisfaction of your employees. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a motivational theory that argues that while people aim to meet basic needs, they seek to meet successively higher needs in the form of a pyramid. His theory is based on the needs of an employee and pertains to motivating employees; fulfillment of these needs acts as a motivational factor to the employee. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs consist of five levels; Self-actualization, Esteem, Belongingness, Safety...
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...Assignment 1: Teamwork and Motivation BUS 520 - Leadership and Organizational Behavior 11/15/14 Abstract How do you compete with a recognized brand and widget? Sure yours is less expensive and more readily available; but how will you and your company break into the market fully when you are having defect issues? One of the key factors to consider to help fix this problem is come up with a motivational plan for your employees that will cause them to want to build and create the best widget for which they will get compensated accordingly. In order to complete such a task to break fully into the market you must have employees that are motivated to get the job done, and in the best possible manner. Our WooWoo widget is the product in question, and through our new motivational plan and added concepts we will be able to succeed in taking more market share. Elements of a Motivation Plan to Encourage Our Employees Our company is small but our company objectives and mission statement is big. We want to create the best widget on the marketplace that gives our customers 100% satisfaction with the product and our employees 100% job satisfaction making the product. However, this is no simple task and it starts in the hearts and minds of our employees. If we do not help foster and grow employees to love their work, feel motivated to work hard, and in tern receive acceptable compensation for their work, then our products will never succeed in the marketplace. As the saying...
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...this will decrease the employees motivations as well as teamwork. Within this paper it will show how a well organizational motivation plan will make teamwork work for the company's common goal. Organization Motivation Plan My organization plan will help set a strong balance for the employees in order to support the common goal for the company. When setting this plan into effect, one must understand the foundation of the word team. According to our text book team is define as a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose (schermerhorn, 2012, pg 147). With this information I will pull together my employees in order for my company to make sure that our widget “WooWoo” be a success. My company is based upon 50 employees which include five departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Each department has there own section of the widget to make sure that the product will be productive in the manor of which the company is seeking. All ideals of the workers will be pulled together in their own department. Each department will weed out the ideals that will not be in good quality for the widget. Once that has been achieved, the team leaders will meet in order to form the best possible solution for the product. By pulling together and...
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...B. Danquah BUS 520: Organizational Behavior and Leadership Dr. Damita Goods Strayer University May 24, 2013 Abstract Hyper competition among businesses continues to increase the importance and relevance of employee motivation. This is essentially because employee motivation grants tangible benefits to the employee as an individual and consequently to organizational growth. One of the challenges facing management in the face of global competition is the designing of appropriate motivation plan that can ensure employee satisfaction and growth of the business. This paper therefore attempts to design an appropriate motivation plan for Danquah and Sons, a small manufacturing company based in Baltimore, Maryland that produces WooWoo, a widget. The motivation plan will encourage high employee job satisfaction, reduce turnover rate, increase productivity and improve quality of work. The paper proposes two methods for all employees at Danquah & Sons and looks at ways to motivate the ordinary factory low rate worker, his relevance and the need for teamwork. Theories of Motivation and Motivation Plans (Schermerhorn et. al 2012) defines motivation as “forces within an individual that accounts for the direction, level, and persistence of a person’s efforts expended at work” (p. 102). Social Scientists have developed many motivation theories, notable among which are Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory that views human needs as activated in five-step hierarchy ranging...
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...You’re The Boss I am the owner of this small manufacturing company that manufactures a commodity, widgets. My widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. My company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Motivation is one of the most important factors shaping organizational productivity. Designing a motivational plan that encourages job satisfaction, low turnover, high productivity, and a high quality of work takes time and takes the right methods of implementation by management. The key to motivation is understanding, evaluating, and analyzing the attributes of each team members contribute to the work design and team layout of an organization. As an owner of a small manufacturing company, consisting of 50 employees in the following departments: Sales, Assembly, Technology, and Administration; our motivational plan, will be designed to integrate and function within these departments. The sales department will undergo new efforts in teamwork configuration and team building, directed by the administration department. Team building is a collaborative way to gather and analyze data to improve teamwork. Through motivation and teamwork improvement; to be effective, as the owner of this company...
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...Teamwork and Motivation Frankie Rios Strayer University Dr. Laura Poluka BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior February 24, 2014 The small company manufacturing the WooWoo product has been engulfed in manufacturing issues such as high defects which are increasing costs and delaying delivery. It has been decided that an organizational motivation plan is key to resolving these issues. The following motivation plans strategy is to encourage high job satisfaction, low turnover, high productivity and high-quality work. According to Schermerhorn J., Osborn R., Hunt J. & Uhl-Bien M. (2012), motivation are “forces within the individual that account for the level and persistence of an effort expended at work”. First and foremost, the goals and strategy of the company need to be aligned to tasks for the managers and staff. The tasks will be broken into subtasks and assigned to the departments. A virtual group will be established to brainstorm and tackle the problem of defects. The job characteristics model will be utilized to improve job satisfaction which in turn will minimize the turnover of employees. Increase in productivity and high-quality work will be emphasized through an implementation of a merit and feedback system. One brainstorm session will be comprised of managers. This session will have two deliverables, what motivates their employees and how can we minimize the current defect rate of our product. The second brainstorm session will be comprised of staff...
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...achieve said goals of good customer feedback, and saving money for the company. Postitive highly motivated individuals make a huge difference to the overall production of a team. To be able to understand what a team is, you must first understand the dynamics of the importance of a team. The text “Organizational Behavior” text a team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complemenatary skills to achieve a common purpose. (Schermerhon, Jr., Osborn, Uni-Bien&Hunt 2012) Team work then takes place when the members of the team take collective accountability to reach and accomplish what’s most important, the goal. In this case, we have fifty employees in various department of the manufacturing company WooWoo. Which would mean they need to come together collectively as a team, and decide what they can do to achieve the common goal, whats in the best of the organization, the employees and most importantly the consumer. Each employee plays a distinct and important role, regardless of the title...
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...Teamwork and Motivation In just a few years WooWoo manufacture has gained much success by becoming one of the world’s top producer of widgets. Recently sales have been high, but a new report was just released that exposed some defects with our product. This defect issue can quickly turn into a serious problem that will increased our costs and delay deliveries to our customers. During these critical times we must find a way to motivate the 50 employees in our sales, assembly, technology, and administration departments. Shafeka Carter, India Lowry, and myself are all part owners in this small manufacturing company. At one of our meetings last week we came up with a plan that will help motivate employees to work hard. We decided that providing all employees with adequate training, pay incentives and recognition will help promote a positive work environment in which employee are more motivated to accomplish work goals. We all had different ideas on how to best motivate our employees. So we each will do research on a different motivational theory, and come to a group conclusion on which theory will work best for our company. Our goal will be to find a motivation theory that will best fit our motivational plan that will help encourage high jobs satisfaction, high productivity, high quality work, and low turnover, which are significant elements to an organizational management plan. In this paper I choose to show how the expectancy theory can implement those elements. I will also...
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...3. Motivational Theory (3) ways to motivate Motivating low-wage employees can be a difficult challenge. Studies have shown employees who earn high end salary over $100K per year are readily involved with the company’s goals and objectives while the minimal wage employees are preoccupied with personal financial concerns and are not engaged in the overall goals or even the day to day operation of the organization. Therefore, it is thought-provoking to devise ways to keep the minimum waged employees focused and motivated to maintain a high-level performance, increase production and maintain high-quality products when things are not always going well. The business must first identify the motivational objectives of the workers, in other words, you have to understand your employees in order to adequately address the needs and keep them motivated. Motivation falls into two categories called content or process theories. In category theory, the need drives employees to act in a particular way and adopt specific work behaviors. For process approach, a worker's behavior determines their work decision process. I will discuss the two types of motivation theories for the minimum wage worker and show 3 different ways how they work to the worker motivated In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory addresses motivation through the five primary unmet fundamental personal needs from the most basic to the most advanced, are physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem and self-actualization. Maslow...
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...BUS 520 Week 7 Assignment 3 Teamwork and Motivation Introduction Out of the many factors that form the driving force behind a successful organization, human resource is one of the most critical ones. A successful organization needs to have the right set of people doing the right kind of jobs. With every profile of work comes an expectation of appropriate compensation. It is more often than not decided based on industry standards. As the company under consideration faces the problems of increased cost and delayed delivery due to increased defects in the product WooWoo, there seems to be a drop in the motivation level and reduced team work between the employees. Organization motivation plan Following are some of the measures that can be taken in designing the motivation plan for the organization – Invest in compensation packages – Since the organization has only 50 employees and considering that the sales of its widget are high, a slight investment in the compensation packages of the employees can be considered to increase motivation, satisfaction and productivity. Increasing the scope of the variable component in the compensation package can serve a good purpose wherein the individual employee and the entire team can be incentivized to increase production and improve product quality Flexible working environment – Employee satisfaction levels can improve by creating a suitable and flexible environment at work. Incentives such as flexible working hours and telecommuting...
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...Motivation at Work Pennylane Wilks BUS520 Dr. Laura Jones Strayer University November 13, 2014 Motivation at Work Although WooWoo sales are high, our company’s maximum profit margin is taking a hit due to flaws and imperfection in our craft. We are losing capital from rework, increased man hours, and delays in shipping. This is causing a ripple effect in our consumer pool and we must get ahead of the problem before it damages our company’s name and reputation. Our company will now take a look at improving our widget manufacturing process by looking into how we can motivate our workers to be 100% dedicated in making our company successful? In today’s society only the strongest of organizations succeed in business. It is mostly attributed to company core values, adhering to goals set by the mission statement, and strong infrastructure. Sometimes what is overlooked is the quality of work produced by the normal minimum wage employee, for they are truly what make these companies thrive. How do you get someone to show up to work every day, on time, and expect them to put forth one hundred percent effort? The answer can easily be reduced to one key factor, motivation. Motivation can come in various forms. Not all people are motivated by the same things. For instance, a single employee who loves shopping and buying nice materialistic things may be highly motivated by getting more hours at work to make more money. However, a parent of 3 kids may be motivated by getting...
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