Essays on Employee Motivation

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RE: SOLUTIONS TO THE INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE

The decision by the local legislators to increase the minimum wage rate from $7.25 to $7.75 may lead to a high increase in the cost of production of the company thus affecting its revenues. Although the new policy may not be good news for the company, it may work in its favor in the long term. This brief examines how the increase in the minimum wage rate by $0.50 will positively affect the ...

How theories of Motivation and the Self and Organizational Culture are represented in the film The internship (2013)? If to consider human life as his/her movement forward on the path of development, we can say that life is a constant process of overcoming the new boundaries, to achieve the best results, self-development and personal growth. In this process, one of the dominant roles is played by the question of the meaning of actions and deeds, which are made by people. What does have an impact on human activity and his/her behavior? For what does the person do something? ...

Abstract

The study will aim to comprehend the way leadership in the oil and gas sector can be used to increase employee performance as well as how leadership can play a substantial role in enhancing employee morale and performance in oil rigs. The research will seek to fill the knowledge gap regarding leadership in oil and gas industry. I will use a phenomenological design since the study is a qualitative research. I will select the study sample using purposive sampling. Additionally, I will collect data through semi-structured interviews method. After collecting the data, I will identify the common themes and ...

REFLECTIVE REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF A REWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Reflective Report: Development of a Reward Management System Overview of the situation The purpose of this report is to reflect on the organisational structure and management system at Sur University College in Oman. Sur University College offers a number of very important services to students and the community alike, but there are certainly struggles that the organisation experiences as well. The college is a diverse learning environment, and the organisation as a whole employs a number of staff, which often has a compounding influence on the overall fluidity and efficiency of internal organisational culture. Underperformance is sometimes a problem ...

Costco is among the most successful retail companies in the United States of America. The company is only second after Wal-Mart, but it has enjoyed an attractive reputation than all the other retail companies in the United States. Unlike most other retail companies that strain to pay their employees the set average wage of $7 an hour, Costco comfortably pays its employees up to $20 for every hour that they work. Unlike most of the other retail companies that are straining to attain profitability and maintain shareholder confidence, Costco is on a different level, an aspect that points out ...

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Introduction Organizational stress, commonly known as work stress, is one of the top reasons for stress among people. In a survey conducted by Pleiter, it was found that 64% of the stress can be attributed to financial problems and 60% of the stress can be attributed to organizational issues or work related stress (Pleiter, 2015). Organizational stress and its impact on employee productivity and organization’s profitability has been a topic of research for many decades. Causes of ...

Introduction

Employee involvement relates centrally to core managerial functions and organizational behavior. Employee involvement, in organizational terms, refers to participation and commitment of employees towards adding value to their organizations by utilizing their own creativity, problem solving skills, qualification, experience, and expertise. It is essential to increase the level of employee motivation to raise their level of engagement because motivation serves as a base for any further consideration in this regard (Schneider & Barbera, 2014). This paper sets out to provide some of the most practical recommendations directed towards improving employee performance by increasing their involvement.

Steps to be taken in order to increase employee motivation and involvement for performance enhancement are as follow:

Providing employees with autonomy Providing ...

Summary of the observational study

The study that is involve was done using the direct and indirect observation methods. Direct observation encompasses an evaluation of an actual occurrence or behavior, while indirect observation involves a study about the result of such behavior or occurrence (sciencebuddies.org). To present the background of this study, the discussion will focus on the topic showing how motivation affects the employees’ ability to create a productive workplace. Direct observation will be conducted to employees who are motivated while indirect observation focuses on the effects of such motivated behavior. It was stated that the factors affecting the development of motivation are ...

Executive Summary

In general, the diplomas mentioned in the paper below have brought revolutionary changes to my personality and mind-set. They have broadened my vision and changed my attitude towards certain concepts in certain ways (that I have explained in the later parts of the assignment). I feel to have some inborn qualities relevant to the subjects that I took up and these courses have helped me polish my skills and expertise, and update my knowledge. As the course progressed, I could feel my development as a learner stage by stage. My teachers, supervisors, and group fellows have come in as ...

Chapter 2: Literature review

Introduction This chapter presents the literature review appraisal that exists and is linked to work contentment and inspiration subjects and how these issues are closely related to industrial performance. The chapter discusses the concept of motivation, job satisfaction, and project management and employee satisfaction. Organizational performance as well as its continuity largely depends on critical assets, employees and the managers' capabilities to create and sustain motivating environments of the employees and other human assets. The primary challenge that managers are faced with today is keeping their human capital such as the employees satisfied and motivated. Therefore, all managers must ...

Chapter 5: Findings and Discussion

In all types of organizations, including cross culture project team in all organizations, the concepts of job motivation is crucial since it plays significant roles in impacting the productivity of organization within which they operate. This study was aimed at finding factors that influence project team members motivation and how this affects the project performance within the finance industry in a multinational and multicultural setting. It was also to address factors that motivate project team members at the commencement of projects thus exploring how project managers alter them to influence the team member needs and priorities. It is the ...

Introduction

Every organization wants to be successful in the current highly competitive environment. To achieve organizational goals and objectives organizations need to develop plans to maintain or increase their performance. Among those strategies should be ways to properly motivate employees. Achieving organizational goals is not the only reason for employee motivation but also to achieve employees’ personal goals. Satisfied employees are a key factor in ensuring the success of an organization. This is because human capital is one of the most important assets in an organization capable of helping an organization to succeed and may also lead to failure of ...

Improving Organization Retention: A Case Study

Introduction In any business organization, it is important to keep the employees motivated and willing to work. By extension, it is necessary to keep their morale high so that the work atmosphere becomes positive, thereby encouraging productivity and efficiency in the workplace. Because of this, there are specific theories in business and work that focus on motivating employees and making them happy and contented with regard to their work environment. This includes addressing any problems and issues in the overall work environment, identifying all factors associated with employee productivity and working around them, and improving the work atmosphere and ...

Abstract

The primary objective of any business organization is to make a profit be developing sustainable competitive advantage. The employees play a major role in achieving this objective, but their motivation to achieve the organizational goals may decline due to several factors. However, managers can implement different approaches to keep the employees highly motivated to achieve better outcomes. Some of the strategies that the management can utilize to improve employee motivation include giving the rewards, engaging them in the decision-making process, effective communication, and providing career development opportunities. In addition, the management can ensure their job security, provide a comfortable ...

Stakeholders Relationships and Company Performance

Employees are valuable assets to the company as they determine the fate of the company success. The management of any business needs to treat their employees in the best way possible so that they remain loyal to the enterprise. In the marketing department, the employees in this department are vital as they sell the image of the company to the public. Personnel in this department have a direct interaction with customers to the organization. Marketing and hospitality tend to be similar as customer loyalty depends on the treatment they receive when they interact with the company employees or agents. ...

Analysis of group cohesion and employee motivation at Google, Acuity and BCG

Introduction Every year Fortune Magazine Conducts surveys in partnership with Great Place to Work to identify the 100 Best Companies to Work for in America. In the Fortune’s annual list for 2016 of the 100 Best Companies to Work for Google was ranked one, Acuity held second place and the Boston Consulting Group held the third place (Fortune, 2016).

Employee motivation and group cohesion among employees in Google

Google is a famous company to foster employee motivation and group cohesion by implementing any strategies. The employees of Google are given free massages, food and many other perks. The company believes that is more important to determine that ...

Employee Motivation Theory: Females in the U.S. Problem Leading To This Study: Many female individuals within the U.S. struggle with a sense of motivation. Merely getting up every morning to go to work can be an exhaustion and a burden. It shouldn’t have to be. Hypothesis: This problem can be changed over time.perhaps even reversed completely, with an increase in widespread awareness. What is my rationale for this hypothesis, based on the provided literature? First of all, the case study memo (pg. 2) makes it clear that repetitive changes are always going on in the workplace, and that ...

DISSERTATION PROPOSAL

Brief Description The progress of the information society of the twenty first century is largely determined by the activity of computer design organizations. They develop a system to effectively collect, store, organize and process a variety of information, as well as creating software systems that provide coordinated work of a large number of industrial production, financial, economic, socio-political and other processes, which provide tremendous cost savings efforts of many thousands of professionals. Motivation of professionals, who automate the work of other people, is extremely important for the success of any modern organization, especially for computer design firms and companies ( ...

Introduction

The capability to shape and develop the leadership abilities of the members of the organization so as to fulfill organizational needs and demands is a complicated and challenging component of the general leadership development process. Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organizational goals, as well as for their followers' performance needed to attain the desired outcome. However, this is not an easy task. Widget PLC has problems with their leadership as revealed by decreasing employee motivation and managerial performance. This paper discusses and analyzes the relevance of transformational leadership and authentic leadership to the problem of Widget PLC. ...

Introduction

An ideal organization reaps the best productivity out of it human capital by rewarding the right people at right time with right amounts and right reasons. Most of the organizations in the world have some sort of Reward philosophy although some do not articulate it as a guiding principle while others have them linked to their goals (Armstrong, 2012). There are different approaches to the development of the total rewards programs and the prevalent variable pay systems which help in devising adequate employee motivation strategies that boost the organizational productivity(Armstrong, 2012). However, in case of organizations facing a ...

Recommendation

Increasingly complex international business environment makes organization provoke vigorous debates on the role of human resource management and development of the sustainable competitive advantage through human capital and intangible resources. Watkins (2013) that while there is a universal agreement on the fact that concept of organizational culture is known and it plays the crucial role in shaping organizational strategies and behaviors, there is little agreement on what this organizational culture actually is and what it encompasses. Schein (2010) defines organizational culture as a set of values and rituals, which serve as a way to collectively, build a description of ...

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Executive Summary When Robert J. Dewar’s “The Savage Factory: An Eyewitness Account of the Auto Industry’s Self Destruction” is read and evaluated, it becomes crystal clear that the Sharonville transmission plant at the Ford Company could not realize the negative consequences of their obsolete management style. In this case study, the main purpose is to examine the methods implemented at the firm and suggest a substitute impactful approach to resolve the various issues that had surfaced up at the Ford facility. In the past, Sharonville transmission plant’s torque converter line was failing to ...

The impact of motivation and job satisfaction in Portuguese hotels

Main Aim & Objectives: The main aim of the research is to assess the impact of Employee motivation and Job satisfaction in Portugal hotels. This will help any hotel to improve its processes.

Research questions:

RQ1: What is the impact of employee motivation in Portuguese Hotels? RQ2: What is the impact of employee job satisfaction in Portuguese Hotels? In today’s economy, great store is placed on the abstract values such as knowledge and competence possessed by the workers. A great value in the hotel industry for which customers are willing to pay now, is being created through the human capital or ...

Introduction

Contemporary Business Environment places a lot of pressure on the company with regards to sustainable and profitable development. In order to be able to compete in the international arena, companies have to look for new ways to differentiate and diversify their business. One of the biggest challenges for a modern company is to build on internal expertise and skills that would help this organization create competitive advantage based on its intangible assets and people. Individuals are subject to a variety of influences and the employment relationships are becoming more complex. Human Resource Management (HRM) is facing new challenges, such ...

Introduction

Employee motivation is the level of creativity, energy and also commitment which the workers of an entity contribute towards their jobs. Whether the entity is growing or even shrinking, the articulation of the manners to motivate workers has always remained a concern for the management. Banks (1997) mentions that competing theories on the aspect have emphasized either employee empowerment or the provision of incentives. Ideally, people often perform better in work environments that are more creative and as a result, they will harbor feelings of accomplishment. It happens when a company has a well-structured reward, as well as, recognition ...

Plan to prioritize staffing within your patrol division by providing appropriate coverage with a reduced staff in keeping with the department’s mission statement. With the reduced staffing, the patrol division would have to undergo slight changes in their schedules. The number of officers manning a certain area would remain the same. However, the number of hours an officer spent on patrol would relatively increase attracting an overtime till the economic status in the organization adjusted. As such, the mission statement would be upheld maintaining community policing and improving the public safety in the community. Prioritize job functions and ...

The related constructs of reward system, organizational culture and supervisory intervention is boosting the four emotional drivers for employee motivation is one of the key tenets that have been explained in this framework. The emotional drivers are independent variables and depending on the organizational and supervisory functions and factors, employee motivation can be optimized. It is the responsibility of individual supervisors to provide careful attention to the drivers of employee motivation. Then, it is the effort of the entire organization to boost the overall employee morale and motivation levels by effectively using these four drivers. The organizational levers including ...

TRANSFORMATIONAL V. TRANSACTIONAL:

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS COM221-18 Technical Report Writing Abstract

Abstract 2

List of Figures and Tables 4 Introduction 5 Methodology 7 Results of the Study 9 I. Charisma and the Transformational Leader 9 II. Transactional Management-By-Exception 10 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits: Emotion v. Non-Emotion 11 IV. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation 12 V. Poor Attitude at Work 13

Discussion of Results 15

I. Significance of the Charismatic Personality Trait 15 II. Management-by-Exception Unsuccessful with Employee Motivation 15 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits 16 IV. Significance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Identification 16 V. Poor Attitude at Work 17 Concluding Remarks and Final Recommendation 18

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Appendix B 22 Glossary 23 ...

Myanmar Tea leaf salad and Myanmar Thingyan Dance

Project name Myanmar Tea leaf salad and Myanmar Thingyan Dance

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Myanmar Tours and Travels Project Progress Since the commencement of the Myanmar Tea leaf Salad and Myanmar Thingyan Dance , it has always been the desire of Myanmar Tours and Travels to keep all the operations on track. However, there are always few setbacks that we plan to handle through various approaches. All the milestones and visions for the first part of the project have been achieved thus demonstrating the business is following a growth trajectory. For instance, the ingredients required for the preparation of the popular Tea Leaf Salad ...

Introduction

This report is based on the key findings established after going through the case study of Intercontinental Hotel Brisbane. The hotel consists of 1019 rooms and is situated in a prime location in Brisbane. The workforce at the underlying hotel comprises agency workers (coming from Asian and some other foreign countries) and directly appointed employees. The company has recently introduced an automated system based on a software application called Optii to appraise the performance of their employees in order to make them utilize their full potential. The question is how far Optii has been successful in dealing with the ...

Proposal for Original Business Research

1.0. Introduction Human resource management has always been integrally attached to the business and its activities, as the degree of success or failure of a business largely relies on the effectiveness of HRM practices in an organization. One of the core areas to be pondered by human resource managers is performance appraisal when it comes to people management (Tooksoon, 2011). 1.1. Problem Statement High employee turnover is one of the most critical side-effects of growing dynamism of modern business climate. Employees are switching from company to company basing their decision of quitting for many good reasons. However, it is ...

2016-04-07

Functioning of the Hotel 3 Functioning of the Bank 7 The Approaches of Both Organizations 9 Limitations of Both Organizations 9 III. Conclusions and Recommendations 12

References 14

Introduction This paper is devoted to the two service companies, which operate in the United Kingdom. The first one is a hotel in London. Its name is Ramada London Finchley. It is one of the eponymous hotel chain Ramada. The hotel is located near the Alexandra Palace and East Finchley subway station. This hotel belongs to the three-star hotels and provides a wide range of hotel services to the customers. Another service company ...

2016-04-09

References 12 Introduction As we know, the labor resources are the main resource of enterprises. The results of the company and its competitiveness depend largely on the quality and effectiveness of the above mentioned resources. The difference between the labor force and other types of resources lies in the fact that each employee may waive the conditions offered to him and can require changes in working conditions, retraining or even voluntary redundancy. The concept of “labor resources of the enterprise” characterizes its potential workforce. Employees can be organized in labor unions and to act as a separate subject of ...

1. Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the following statement: “Individual incentive plans are less preferable than group incentives and companywide incentives.” Incentives play an important role in motivating employees as it encourages them to be more dedicated and productive in their work. When presented with the two types of incentives, which are the individual and countrywide, group incentive plans are more preferable than the other. While individual incentives are said to bring about a better performance because “the link between a person’s pay and his or her performance is tighter” (McGee et al, 2006), group incentives ...

1. Introduction Oman Oil Company (OCC) is one of the biggest commercial organizations of Oman, undertaken by the Government of the country. The company was set up in 1966, headquartered in Muscat, Oman (Oman-oil.com, 2016). Pursuing the investment opportunities in oil and gas and other energy sectors, Oman Oil Company has become one of the leading companies of Sultanate of Oman. Identifying the investment opportunities both inside and outside the country, the company has developed an impressive HRM to manage the organizational operations affirmatively. The HRM of the organization supports the employees to deliver their best performance for organizational ...

Studies consistently demonstrate that morale is key to long term employee satisfaction, and ultimately a major deciding factor in industry and productivity for any company. As such it must be a priority to understand the relationship between morale and productivity in order to ensure that employees are increasingly efficient in their roles. This can only be established by creating a work environment that is designed to motivate employees, by boosting morale, rather than allowing unhealthy work habits to persist and to drag down performance over time. A number of studies published by the American Psychology Association have demonstrated that ...