Backgrounds Douglas McGregor was a management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He introduced a new motivational theory in his book ‘The Human Side of Enterprise’‚ stating that all workers were divided into two groups: Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X workers were lazy‚ irrational and unreliable‚ and were only motivated by money and threatened by punishment. Theory Y workers were able to seek and accept responsibilities and fulfil any goals given. The Human Side of Enterprise‚ written
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Motivational workplaces Motivational workplaces One of the key aspects to good management for any organization is workplace motivation. It may sound like a complex concept but unless it is understood and effectively managed‚ organizations cannot succeed. A managers’ job is to get things done through his employees and to get things done he must possess the ability to motivate them. Many managers and employers are not aware of the fact that the level of motivation of their employees may have
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Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. |Team Member Name |Summary of Individual Characteristics |Motivational Strategy
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knowledge of motivational theories help you as a Managing Director of a supermarket chain‚ introduce policies and practices which increases the motivation and productivity of your employees? Try to use both theory and evidence to support any specific proposals you might make. Motivation is the set of processes that moves a person towards a goal. Since motivation influences productivity‚ the Managing Director would need to have knowledge of motivational theories. The motivational theories which could
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Literature Review Motivational Theory and Techniques used within organizations. Student: Ronan Manning Course: M.App.Sc. In Operations and Quality Management (Part-time) Subject: Research Reports Report No. 2 Submitted To: Dr. David O’Sullivan Industrial Engineering Department Submission Date: 14th March 2007 Abstract This literature review explores the concept of motivation‚ different motivational theories and details some of the motivational tools used within business
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Introduction The concept of motivational interviewing evolved from experience in the treatment of problem drinkers‚ and was first described by Miller (1983) in an article published in Behavioural Psychotherapy. These fundamental concepts and approaches were later elaborated by Miller and Rollnick (1991) in a more detailed description of clinical procedures. A noteworthy omission from both of these documents‚ however‚ was a clear definition of motivational interviewing. We thought it timely
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ANALYZING THEORIES OF MOTIVATION ANALYZING THE APLICATIONS OF MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES IN SUBMITTED BY: KANZA KHURSHEED AMNA INAYAT SAYEDA SAHAR FATIMA SUMAIRA BUKHARI MUHAMMAD SUBMITTED TO: MRS. SOBIA SHUJAAT DEPT.MANAGEMENT SCIENCES DATED: 10TH /MAY/2010 TABLE OF CONTENT S.NO | TOPIC | PAGE NO | 1 | Acknowledgement | 1 | 2 | Executive Summary | 2 | 3 | Introduction To Organization | 3-4 | 4 | Introduction To Topic | 5 | 5 | Application of Motivational Theories In Unilever
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Running head: MOTIVATIONAL PLAN Motivational Plan Essay Douglas C. Soles Grand Canyon University: EDA 575 January 12‚ 2011 There are five basic theories of motivation. 1) Self-determination theory states that people have three basic needs. 2) Attribution theory wants to know why things happen. 3) Expectancy-value theory is interested in a person’s beliefs about abilities. 4) Social cognitive theory states that human behavior comes from their attributes. 5) Goal orientation theory wants to
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs [pic] [pic] Abraham Maslow is known for establishing the theory of a hierarchy of needs‚ writing that human beings are motivated by unsatisfied needs‚ and that certain lower needs need to be satisfied before higher needs can be satisfied. Maslow studied exemplary people such as Albert Einstein‚ Jane Addams‚ Eleanor Roosevelt‚ and Frederick Douglas rather than mentally ill or neurotic people. This was a radical departure from two of the chief schools of pyschology
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management thought and therefore needed serious evaluation‚ the results published were the findings of Elton Mayo and his co-workers and it is worth noting that not every person shares the same ideas in their minds. In contrast‚ Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory did not face as much criticism as it did analysis. In the modern age researchers tend to often look back and evaluate whether or not his findings remain true to how things operate nowadays (Lloyd‚ 2005). One can understand the need to criticise and
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