Fred Mairino
The key primary issues in Fred Maiorino’s case are:
1. Fred’s Lack of motivation
2. Reed’s feeble attempts at coaching
3. Motivating older workers
4. The potential influence of the performance evaluation system
Fred’s Lack of Motivation:
Reading through the Fred Maiorino’s case, it is very much clear that the main key issue for this case was lack of motivation. The way Fred’s new boss Jim Reed motivated Fred to get going on his job wasn’t a very good way. Reed failed to understand that motivating an old employee is completely different than motivating a new energized employee. From motivating followers Dr. Yammarino points out that the individualized leadership should be evaluated with respect to three practical considerations; first human motivations are complex and are not always nice; second, leaders must cope with difficult people and a competitive, somewhat Darwinian world; third, leaders must make decisions that often result in someone losing and someone winning (Yammarino, 2000). Every human being and/or employee is different in nature and reacts differently given a variety of situations. Being a leader of a group of people is a complex job where the leader has to understand each employee. Some humans are easy to understand and make understand certain things while some people are so much difficult that they can never be understood in our whole life, just like our professor Dr. Humphreys mentioned in class about one person in his career whom he didn’t find out a way to motivate. Not just a single or couple, but there will be many people in every leader’s career whom they cannot find a way to motivate in a proper way. Thus, for these kinds of situations a leader should always be prepared with a bag of solutions. It’s a leader’s job to make sure that the workplace is competitive, rewarding and appraising so that someone is winning and someone is losing.
In the international journal of human resource management we found out that a large number of
1. Fred’s Lack of motivation
2. Reed’s feeble attempts at coaching
3. Motivating older workers
4. The potential influence of the performance evaluation system
Fred’s Lack of Motivation:
Reading through the Fred Maiorino’s case, it is very much clear that the main key issue for this case was lack of motivation. The way Fred’s new boss Jim Reed motivated Fred to get going on his job wasn’t a very good way. Reed failed to understand that motivating an old employee is completely different than motivating a new energized employee. From motivating followers Dr. Yammarino points out that the individualized leadership should be evaluated with respect to three practical considerations; first human motivations are complex and are not always nice; second, leaders must cope with difficult people and a competitive, somewhat Darwinian world; third, leaders must make decisions that often result in someone losing and someone winning (Yammarino, 2000). Every human being and/or employee is different in nature and reacts differently given a variety of situations. Being a leader of a group of people is a complex job where the leader has to understand each employee. Some humans are easy to understand and make understand certain things while some people are so much difficult that they can never be understood in our whole life, just like our professor Dr. Humphreys mentioned in class about one person in his career whom he didn’t find out a way to motivate. Not just a single or couple, but there will be many people in every leader’s career whom they cannot find a way to motivate in a proper way. Thus, for these kinds of situations a leader should always be prepared with a bag of solutions. It’s a leader’s job to make sure that the workplace is competitive, rewarding and appraising so that someone is winning and someone is losing.
In the international journal of human resource management we found out that a large number of
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