Bus 520 Leadership And Organizational Behavior Research Paper
Teamwork & Motivation
Jennifer Schwartz
BUS 520: Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Assignment #3
Strayer University- Greenville, SC Campus Location
Abstract
Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your 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 50 employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Motivation is a key element in organizational behavior because an employee needs to be motivated …show more content…
If in-service training is provided for employees, it helps them to increase their skills on the job which also leads to increase in productivity in the organization. Employees feel motivated when they received free training from their employers. The assembly department receives the proposed motivational plan, which leads to job satisfaction which in turn reduces the turnover rate amongst the employees within this department. They will ultimately then give the results of an increased rate of output and quality of output (high-quality work).
The technology department is configured in the design by way of enhancements in communication as motivation. This is a direct result of the provisions in computer hardware and software improvements made by the administrative department. Well thought out, the proposed motivational strategy put into place, serves directly to improving the performance of our employees and will affect all four characteristics of the motivational …show more content…
Stimulation that drives an individual to adopt or change a behavior for his or her own internal satisfaction or fulfillment. Intrinsic motivation is usually self-applied, and springs from a direct relationship between the individual and the situation. It is very important factor in the design of a learning or training course (www.businessdictionary.com). This website, http://psychology.about.com, states “intrinsic motivation involves engaging in a behavior because it is personally rewarding; performing an activity for its own sake rather than for the desire for some external reward (motivated by an internal desire)
Internalization and integration are the processes through which extrinsically motivated behaviors become more self-determined. Intrinsic rewards: tend to give personal satisfaction to individual by the following: Information/feedback, Recognition, Trust, Relationship, and
Jennifer Schwartz
BUS 520: Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Assignment #3
Strayer University- Greenville, SC Campus Location
Abstract
Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your 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 50 employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Motivation is a key element in organizational behavior because an employee needs to be motivated …show more content…
If in-service training is provided for employees, it helps them to increase their skills on the job which also leads to increase in productivity in the organization. Employees feel motivated when they received free training from their employers. The assembly department receives the proposed motivational plan, which leads to job satisfaction which in turn reduces the turnover rate amongst the employees within this department. They will ultimately then give the results of an increased rate of output and quality of output (high-quality work).
The technology department is configured in the design by way of enhancements in communication as motivation. This is a direct result of the provisions in computer hardware and software improvements made by the administrative department. Well thought out, the proposed motivational strategy put into place, serves directly to improving the performance of our employees and will affect all four characteristics of the motivational …show more content…
Stimulation that drives an individual to adopt or change a behavior for his or her own internal satisfaction or fulfillment. Intrinsic motivation is usually self-applied, and springs from a direct relationship between the individual and the situation. It is very important factor in the design of a learning or training course (www.businessdictionary.com). This website, http://psychology.about.com, states “intrinsic motivation involves engaging in a behavior because it is personally rewarding; performing an activity for its own sake rather than for the desire for some external reward (motivated by an internal desire)
Internalization and integration are the processes through which extrinsically motivated behaviors become more self-determined. Intrinsic rewards: tend to give personal satisfaction to individual by the following: Information/feedback, Recognition, Trust, Relationship, and