A motivated workforce is crucial to ensure employees are happy, engaged, productive and good advocates for the company.(James By water 2009).it does not always take a lot but it is important to ensure that you are motivating the right people in the right way as everybody is different, others prefer encouragement, team working and been appreciated by colleagues.
Motivating other people is about getting them to move in the direction you want them to go in other to achieve a result (Michael Armstrong 2006 p: 252). According to Stephen Lockley, (2010) employees are the most valve able assets of an organisation, so ensuring that they are motivated and committed is the key to successful and productive workforce. Often companies are under pressure to increase productivity, profitability, revenue growth and this overshadows the importance of how an unengaged workforce can negatively affect productivity.
According to the chairman of judges for the National Business Awards, He said ”It is emerging that issues relating to the performance of people form the major performance barriers for companies” .It would seem not only desirable but also indeed essential that staffs are kept motivated.
Levinson (1989) said every manager must motivate and encourage employees somehow reconciliation the individual needs with the goals of the organisations. All employees have aspiration and objectives which they want to achieve through their organisation, responsible managers ought to help to achieve their modest aspiration.
Sir Terry Leahy Tesco chief Executive help steer Tesco from UK’s number three retailer to number one, by application of lessons from Sir Roy Griffiths which greatly helped Tesco. He had many advantages over the NHS executives because no ministers telling him what to do and no conflicting professional groups, these advantages he forged ahead with creating a
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