Question: with the use of motivation theory discuss how Caribbean managers can enhance the motivation of their employees. Provide relevant examples to illustrate your answer. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of motivational theories and how they relate and enhance the motivation of employees by managers within the Caribbean. Motivation is defined as the processes that accounts for an individual’s intensity‚ direction‚ and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. It can either
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Qualities of a Good Manager Managing an organization is not an easy job. There are so many intricacies associated with operating an organization in a healthy manner. The person managing the organization‚ that is the manager‚ must have certain qualities. The manager should be competent enough in order to handle complexities arising during various functions of the organization. However‚ it is very difficult to identify a measure of manager being good or bad. “Sometimes it can be hard to quantify
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contracts. Managers rationalized it as the bribes being useful money‚ but in a way they were still making profit‚ and bribes were used as a cost of doing business and keeping the business alive. 2) What I think would have happened to a manager at Siemens if he or she had taken a stand against corrupt practices is that the manager would most likely be fired by the executives of the company because the company is doing what is practical and worthy to them‚ which entails that the manager is going
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as a communicator‚ on motivating others‚ controlling recession driven economic scenario and must be a leader as well as manager. Management is an art of making people more effective than they would have been without you. There are four basic pillars in management: Planning‚ Organising‚ Directing and Monitoring. ‘The best manager is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he want to be done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling
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project manager is unclear. Different people hold various viewpoints about it. According to Lewis‚ people have a vague understanding of what is the role of project manager‚ because a majority of project managers are promoted from other jobs such as engineers or technologists and so on (Lewis‚ 2007). Some individuals think that the role of the project manager is to command and control. Is it enough for a project manager who is as a “single point of responsibility” (Burke‚ 2007) to manager a project
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beat. They were innovators‚ inventors‚ and adventurers. Entrepreneurship is a social phenomenon and it is not inherent within a person‚ rather it exists in the interaction between people. To be a successful Entrepreneur it requires practicing as a manager by acquiring various skills and efforts in learning to understand a business. Entrepreneurship is the future of the modern society. It reflects a ray of hope for the unemployed to earn a living and maintain a dignified life and also for the economic
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Managing Without Managers by Ricardo Semler Harvard Business Review Reprint 89509 HBR SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1989 Managing Without Managers by Ricardo Semler I n Brazil‚ where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish‚ I am president of a manufacturing company that treats its 800 employees like responsible adults. Most of them—including factory workers—set their own working hours. All have access to the company books. The vast majority vote on many important
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Affecting Managers 2 Changes Affecting Manager’s Jobs and why they are Significant Managers are constantly confronted with new and complex challenges within today’s highly diverse work force. Managers everywhere are dealing with security threats‚ corporate ethics scandals‚ global economic and political uncertainties‚ and technological advancements‚ change is constant (Robbins & Coulter‚ 2007). All of these changes create so much frustration and stress for today’s managers. Many managers would love
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Contents 1. Decision making .................................................................................................................................. 2 1.1. 1.2. Information systems.................................................................................................................... 2 1.3. 2. What is decision making? ........................................................................................................... 2 The process of decision making
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Veridian: Putting a Value on Values 1. What is Veridian’s strategy for making money for its shareholders? Veridian is a defense information technology company that has always remained consistent in its focus of values-based leadership to create a long term strategy of meeting the needs of customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ as well as shareholders. Because of the broad intention and focus of the leadership‚ the corporate culture attracts the highest-skilled employees who are able to deliver outstanding
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