VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
MOTIVATION SYSTEM IN ORGANIZATION
Subject: Management Theory
Lecture: Gitana Dudzevi?i?t?
Group: Tvimtu-12
Vilnius, 2012
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION 5
THE NATURE OF MOTIVATION IN ORGANISATIONS 6
Motivation and Performance in Organizations 6
HISTORICAL VIEWS OF MOTIVATION 6
NEED-BASED APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION 6
Need Hierarchies 7
The Dual-Structure Approach to Motivation 8
Acquired Needs 9
PROCESS-BASED APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION 9
Expectancy Theory 9
Implications for managers 10
Equity Theory 11
REINFORCEMENT-BASED APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION 11
Reinforcement Contingencies 11
Providing Reinforcement 12
OTHER APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION IN ORGANISATIONS 12
Goal Setting Theory 12
The Japanese Approach to Motivation 12
MOTIVATION SYSTEMS IN ORGANIZATIONS 13
PERFORMANCE AND MOTIVATION IN MCDONALDS 13
HOW COCA COLA INTERNATIONAL MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES 14
How they Retain & Motivate their Employees Successfully 14
MOTIVATION THEORIES AT FEDEX 14
ERG Theory 15
Existence 15
Relatedness 15
Growth 16
Goal-setting Theory 16
RECOMENDATIONS 18
Organizational Reward Systems 18
Effects of organizational rewards 18
Interventions for enhancing motivation 19
Rewards and employee satisfaction 22
Rewards and motivation 23
Equity and participation 24
Compensation systems: the dilemmas of practice 24
Management 's influence on attitudes toward money 25
Pay for performance 25
CONCLUSIONS 30
BIBLIOGRAPHY 32
INTRODUCTION
Motivation is the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal and elicits,
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