LDR/531: Motivation Plan For Employees

Motivation Plan
Vadim Dyachenko
LDR 531
May 14, 2014
Dr. Lola Jackson

Introduction
Motivating individuals or groups is one of the most important and yet difficult management tasks. Because a variety of personalities and ethnic backgrounds that now exist in nearly every workplace you need a solid plan. When evaluating technical staff that perform a variety of different engineering and complex operations it is difficult to choose a theory or strategy that will give you a guaranteed result. Motivation is defined as processes that account for an individual 's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal (Robbins, Judge, 2013). Management strives to inflate the equity value of the
Many factors must be considered when creating a motivation plan. Some of these are as follows: employee base, managers, business goals, and employee benefits. While all motivational plans are intended to increase productivity, only the well-orchestrated and managed plans are truly able to fulfill their intended purpose. In the PCS Business unit which our learning team belongs to has culture that has been created by our leader and is considered flat with a wide span of control. Business Unit manager has 15 people in the department that are very skilled and trained in a wide variety of technical applications. Including corporate level tools that monitor the actual enterprise architecture rather than application availability itself. The next few paragraphs will show how motivational plan has to be developed around each member 's personality. Four team members will be discussed with each possessing different behaviors and skills. According to Maslow 's Hierarchy of needs model, there are five levels that exist within each human being: Physiological, safety, social, esteem, and
Although Orobah and Sasha score the same on DISC, they are still much different when it comes to dealing with projects or issues. To motivate these types of character 's management would have to come up with some monetary or promotion incentives in order to keep this group highly motivated. Sasha is sterner in his approach, where he feels his way is the best way and is the only way this issue can be resolved. On the other hand Orobah although still dominant is a bit more democratic in her approach to issues, but make no mistake, she has the final decision. Dominant are styles that are needed when you need things done, since they are not afraid to bend policies to achieve the requested goal. Let 's take a look at some approaches management can take in order to satisfy the entire group versus each.
First class of motivation is physical. Includes pay raises, extra vacation days, free lunches, and even better parking spot. This makes the employees look at these rewards as a prize that makes them standout. They seem to compete with themselves, and the rest of the team to achieve their goal in order to be rewarded and praised. These prizes do not even need to be that expensive, it is strictly winning the competition that truly