The word "motivation" is often used to describe certain sorts of behaviour. A student who studies hard and tries for top grades may be described as being "highly motivated"‚ while her friend may say that he is "finding it hard to get motivated" to study for an exam or to start an assignment. Such statements imply that motivation has a major influence on our behaviour but they don’t really tell us how. A Definition of Motivation Motivation can be defined as a concept used to describe the factors
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According to Greenberg (1999)‚ motivation is defines “as a process of arousing‚ directing and maintaining behavior towards a goal.” Where “directing” refers to the selection of a particular behavior; and ‘maintenance” refers to the inclination to behave with consistency in that manner until the desired outcome is met. Motivation is the force that transforms and uplifts people to be productive and perform in their jobs. Maximizing employee’s motivation is a necessary and vital to successfully accomplish
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STAFF TURNOVER AT SELECTED GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS BY SINDIWSA VICTORIA MDINDELA Dissertation presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree: MAGISTER TECHNOLOGIAE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT In the faculty of Business and Economic Sciences At the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University PROMOTER: DR A. Werner JANUARY 2009 DECLARATION “I‚ Sindiswa Victoria Mdindela‚ hereby declare that: • The work in this thesis is my own original work; • All sources used
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Motivation and Reinforcement Summary: Motivation is the art of getting people to do things or to do things more efficiently or quickly. Knowing what the human behavior will do is of the upmost importance. Some of the principals of theorist Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg will open your eyes up to what really motivate people. Finding out which type of motivation intrinsic or extrinsic‚ is a building block of how a person gets influenced for better motivation. Knowing this trait is a helpful
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ABSTRACT Author Name: Tutor: Title: Employee Motivation in the Hotel Industry Background and Problem: Reading into the performance of some hotels and going through the multiple advertisements they place repeatedly in magazines‚ boasting about the quality of service they provide. It left me wondering what is so especial about these hotels‚ that is different from the so many others‚ what keeps employees so motivated that they go beyond their call of duty to provide services to the customers. With
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gain practical data‚ knowledge and experience. Grameenphone limited is a place where we would learn their telecommunicating service and their employee motivation policy. We faced a lot of problems to organize this term paper and I tried my best to fulfill this term paper. As instructed in the course schedule‚ we had to prepare a term paper of “Employee Motivation of Grameenphone Limited “supervised of Dr. Md. Morshed Hasan Khan‚ Faculty of Business Studies‚ Jahangirnagar University. Objective:
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EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT INTRODUCTION Employee empowerment is a term used to express the ways in which non-managerial staff can make autonomous decisions without consulting a boss/manager. These self-willed decisions can be small or large depending upon the degree of power with which the company wishes to invest employees. Employee empowerment can begin with training and converting a whole company to an empowerment model. Conversely it may merely mean giving employees the ability to make some decisions
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION 1. MEANING OF WAGE/ COMPENSATION PAYMENT: Wage is a monetary payment made by the employer to his employee for the work done or services rendered. It is a monetary compensation for the services rendered [1]. A worker may be paid Rs. 100 per day or Rs. 4500 per month. This is wage payment. The worker gives his services and takes payment called wage payment. Industrial workers are paid remuneration for their services in terms of money called wage payment. Wages
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Motivation in the Workplace Nhu-Khanh Nguyen Organizational Devlopment & Culture November 10‚ 2010 Abstract In today’s competitive marketplace‚ understanding what stems employee motivation and ways to improve organizational performance is critical. To ensure success‚ employers continuously strive to look for ways to maintain employees’ motivation and engagement towards the job. This is easier said than done. Individuals are motivated differently as they all come from different backgrounds
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In Motivation and Personality‚ Maslow descried his theory of motivation and the fact that motivation itself centered on a hierarchy of needs. (Crainer‚ 2003) Maslow explained that individual motivations very based on a scale‚ or hierarchy‚ of what one needs/desires at any point in time and that motivation was based strictly on rewards. First a person is motivated by physiological needs such as bread/water. Once these needs are met‚ safety needs emerge‚ then love‚ followed by ego. Ultimately‚ as a
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