The Effect of Reward to Employee’s Motivation towards Work Productivity Johnpaula Louise A. Sanchez COMARTS 2 Professor Chona Lajom October 4, 2012 A Review of the Literature Employee’s motivation is one of the most essential parts in a company’s development and success. In order to maximize the overall performance of the employee, the employer must know what is the most motivating for the employees and how to increase their job satisfaction. However, it may be challenging
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Motivation Concepts Analysis Anna Parks PSY/320 4-29-14 Kelly Louis Motivation Concepts Analysis Employee motivation has always been a central problem for leaders and managers. Unmotivated employees are likely to spend little or no effort in their jobs, avoid the workplace as much as possible, exit the organization if given the opportunity and produce low quality work. On the other hand, employees who feel motivated to work are likely to be persistent, creative and productive, turning out
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within and outside the company as he's unable to sell himself properly. Harry on the other hand is a very strong personality and assertive to extremes. His agenda is money and wouldn't mind changing jobs for it. He does an excellent job and has no qualms for being overworked only of he is paid well. He was too pushy if not more money than other fringe benefits. Outside concepts 1. Acquired Needs Theory (mcclellan) Some needs are acquired as a result of life experiences need for achievement
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motivational problems are attributable to "the particular incentive system in effect at the moment, rather than to the psychological theory behind all incentives." To explain why rewards fail, Kohn gives these six reasons: 1. "Pay is not a motivator. " When people are asked
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Rewards and incentives in company have benefits for both employees and employers. When performance and productivity was recognized, employees have increased high morale, job gratification and involvement in business function. However, the best ways to motivate employees is a controversial and complex issue. Incentive and rewards can be both Financial and Nonmonetary. A number of researcher has reported that the key to organization people to show their high efficiency is to provide employee an incentive
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Organizational behavior is defined as actions and attitudes of individuals and groups toward one another and toward the organization as a whole, and its effect on the organization's functioning and performance. During the course of this semester I never thought that I would learn so much about why companies are the way they are because of their behavioral structure. “Behavior is a product of individual, group, and organizational influences and, as such, we draw upon the concepts and theories of Organizational
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learned that there are two forms of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic. Depending on what the individual is striving for will determine what kind of motivator they are. An extrinsic motivator is someone who is motivated to do something in order to get something in return, not because they are interested in what they are doing. An intrinsic motivator on the other hand is a person who is striving in something they like to do and even if they do good or bad they were motivated to do it to their best
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effectively as possible. Workers who feel that their needs are not addressed will be less productive, lead to high turnover and increased absenteeism (Liebler & McConnell, 2012). Managers must be aware of motivators in the workplace and address them to increase the motivation of their subordinates. These motivators may include improving working conditions, promotions and salaries. Motivational strategies increase the motivation of the workers who feel that they are appreciated for the work that they perform
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sort of personal level with their workers in order to efficiently motivate them to work harder and reach the company’s goals. Money The most controversial idea of motivational strategies is money. I personally think that if an employee is not being paid what they believe to be suitable the will be unhappy regardless of any other motivator. Unless the need or want for money is being met, the employee will most likely feel unappreciated and unhappy regardless of any other motivation strategies that
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of goods and services. What perhaps changed this way of thinking about employees was research, referred to as the Hawthorne Studies, conducted by Elton Mayo from 1924 to 1932 (Dickson, 1973). This study found employees are not motivated solely by money and employee behavior is linked to their attitudes (Dickson, 1973). The Hawthorne Studies began the human relations approach to management, whereby the needs and motivation of employees become the primary focus of managers (Bedeian, 1993). Motivation
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