Motivational Strategies: Ways to Increase Performance and Productivity Prepared for: Dr. Michael O ’Conner English 210 Instructor 439 Shilling Hall Millikin University Decatur‚ Illinois 62522 Prepared by: Michael Merten English 210 Student 215A Oakland Hall Millikin University Decatur‚ Illinois 62522 (217) 420-6526 mmerten@mail.millikin.edu Date of Submission: May 1‚ 1997 Preface Owners
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Motivational Strategies and Productivity Cynthia Henry PSY 320 June 4‚ 2012 Sandra Branton‚ EdD Motivational Strategies and Productivity Introduction Recent research by Gallup and Harris Interactive polling shows that ninety percent of managers are either disengaged or distracted from key priorities and only ten percent are focused on what matters most to their organizations. More discouraging are the findings regarding employees. Poll results showed that only twenty nine percent of all
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delivery person who was given the wrong key to a FedEx drop box. So ingrained was the culture of “next-day delivery guarantee” that the delivery person unbolted the box from its base and took it back to the office where it was pried open. The contents were delivered the next day. It is not important whether this folktale is true or not. What is important is that this story illustrates Fedex’s corporate culture: every employee helps in the achievement of FedEx’s reputation of reliable overnight delivery
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giants in the high tech field. Microsoft has become a household word which started in January of 1975 when Bill Gates‚ a sophomore at Harvard‚ starting writing software to enhance the use of personal computers. The company has grown from its humble beginnings to the software giant the company has now become. Microsoft uses employee empowerment‚ the company’s ability to foster teamwork‚ and creative incentives and rewards to motivate the company’s employees to be productive. Employee Empowerment Microsoft
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Activity 4.1: How a Country’s Culture Affects Motivational Efforts Carlos J. Rivera Indiana Wesleyan University How a Country’s Culture Affects Motivational Efforts When employees and managers from the US and other countries are mixed together in any intense environment they often bring with them different expectations about workplace success factors‚ rewards and career development as well as differences in motivational wiring. Managers need to be sure they understand these differences and
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Motivation and Organizational Culture Cassandra Clyburn HCA 250-The Psychology of Health December 9‚ 2012 Ebony Thomas Axia College Motivation and Organizational Culture When you first start a job you have fears of being able to fit in‚ your nerves are on edge and if you are a supervisor or manager you have many more fears as our subject Ayame Nakamura may have had. She is a Japanese immigrant who is fortunate to have landed a position as a Project Manager for a pharmaceutical company.
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8 5.1 Stability Strategy 9 5.2 Defensive Strategy 9 6.0 Justification of Strategy 9 7.0 Conclusions 10 8.0 References 11 1.0 Executive Summary IOI Group is a company listed in Bursa Malaysia that business include palm oil plantation‚ properties and investment. mainly focusing IOI Group organization strategy is towards entering into globalization as every business is aiming to expanding. Certain corporate strategy components to be looked into
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Motivational and Organizational Culture In any organization‚ the management is the key to a successful business. There are many different kinds of leaders in the workplace and each one of them plays a different role to make the business organized and to help keep the employees motivated. According to Robbins‚ DeCenzo‚ and Coulter (2011)‚ “Motivation refers to the process by which a person’s efforts are energized‚ directed‚ and sustained toward attaining a goal”(pg.266). Workplace psychology
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Corporate Culture (a) What do you think is the dominant corporate culture in your organization? Describe some of the features of this culture‚ what shaped them‚ and comment on their effects (both positive and negative) on organizational performance and staff behaviour and motivation. (b) Could some of the negative cultural features be changed or minimized? If yes‚ describe how you would go about changing them using any change model you like and what resources/support are needed. Suggest the
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Task 3 - Understanding approaches to strategy evaluation and selection Organisations may be made up of several divisions or business units. Therefore‚ when devising their strategies may well decide to adopt differing strategies – substantive growth‚ limited growth or retrenchment for different business units. a) Virgin is an example of a large and diverse organization. Describe conditions‚ which might lead them into adopting each of these three strategies. Growth in a business is described
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