Organizational Behavior
What is Organizational Behavior?
Organizational behavior can be defined as the systematic study of the behavior and attitudes of both individuals and groups within organizations
Understanding how individuals and groups within organizations act and react with each other in everyday situations can be key to helping managers become more effective both in directing their own activities, the activities of their subordinates, and in working with others within the organization. (DuBrin, 1984, p. 14).
What is Employee Motivation?
To define what is employee motivation we first need to know what is motivation:
Motivation is a desire to achieve a goal, combined with the energy to work towards that goal . Without motivation, any type of business that relies on human resource is bound to go down.
Employee motivation is the desire of an employee to reach a certain goal.(TMLP & TMS, 2013)
IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW
OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION
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That it is interesting to work
Employee is happy with wages
There is a job security
That the employee has good working conditions That there is good promotions and growth in the organization
That the company for whom we are working has personal loyalty to employees That the employer has understanding with personal problems.
What are the three strategies an organization can do to increase employee motivation?
Employee Morale
Incentive Programs
Fair Policies
EMPLOYEE MORALE
The employer should begin by examining their employee’s and finding out what their needs, goals, and expectations are. If you think about it, when an organization pays an employee to perform a task, it is basically helping them meet their basic needs, such as being able to afford to pay for basic necessities such as food and shelter. In addition, if the organization provides health benefits and creative culture it is working to help the employees meet both first and secondary needs which in turn