Motivational Theories Over the years‚ many have studied the behavior of individuals and what lies beneath their motivation. To completely understand these concepts we must fully understand the meaning of motivation. I will first discuss the definition of motivation‚ then I will briefly present three different motivational theories‚ the pros and cons of each‚ and strategies for which organizations can use in order to successfully implement motivational tactics. The New Penguin Business Dictionary
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Abstract This paper will explore and discuss the motivational factors that managers must be proficient with in order to accomplish the organization’s goals and objectives. This exploration and discussion will include aspects of different theories to understand how motivation affects the accomplishment of the organization’s goals and objectives. This exploration will be emphasized and interconnected with motivational theories to increase the success of today’s organizations and explain the impact
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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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market in the world. Logically‚ the country represented a promising target market for Apple in the course of its global expansion plans. Hence‚ Apple took initiative by introducing its iPhone to the Indian cellular market. En route‚ Apple made several strategic decisions intended to guide the company to success in its new sales territory. First‚ Apple created co-operations with two telecommunication companies to bring its iPhones to the market. Together‚ these strategic partners‚ namely Vodafone
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Module Title: Promoting Health Module Coordinator: Mary Murphy Word Count: 1750 Actual Word Count: 1894 Introduction Motivational interviewing may be defined as “a collaborative‚ goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion”
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Motivational Methods Like many organizations today health care institutions are transforming or restructuring‚ using many motivating techniques. Whatever term used‚ process improvement‚ job design‚ restructuring‚ it amounts to downsizing. Even small change effects will reach not only the employees but also the customer and suppliers. Positive Downsizing Organizational downsizing constitutes a set of activities designed to improve organizational efficiency‚ productivity‚ and competitiveness
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roles and principles of one of the treatment interventions or approaches: Motivational Interviewing. The treatment approach‚ motivational interviewing‚ was first described by Miller (1983) in a paper he had not intended to publish but did so while in Norway supervising young psychologists. He found that the principles and concepts were interesting to clinicians and so decided to research them further‚ (Miller‚ 1996). Motivational interviewing developed as a result of observation of various alternative
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of situations. Motivation is the “extent to which an individual is engaged by the work role he or she occupies.” It is very important that in today’s society‚ managers have a successful motivational strategy put in place in order to maintain high levels of performance in the work environment. The motivational theories that I have studied can be categorised into two groups; content and process theories. “Content theories are based on the assumption that we can attribute a similar set of needs to
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Motivational Learning Jaron Ekers EXP105: Personal Dimensions of Education Prof. Katherine Myers January 25‚ 2013 Contexts that Motivate Learning. Motivational learning can be broken into four contexts. Those contexts are: Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic. The practical context of learning would be learning something because you know in advance it will benefit you. The personal context of learning would be learning something
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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
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