According to McKinley‚ Sanchez and Schick (1995)‚ “This process of deliberate personnel reduction has been justified as a cost-cutting measure and as an incentive to increase productivity. However‚ evidence has shown that downsizing negatively affects employee morale and productivity.” While people who lose their jobs can be strongly impacted by loss of financial security‚ fear for the future‚ and even decreased self-esteem‚ it’s important to recognize that people who survive job cuts face their own set
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Team Motivation Paper: The motivation process behind the management team of XXXX consists of the respected theories of Abraham Maslow and Fredrick Herzberg. Using Maslow ’s hierarchy of needs and Herzberg ’s motivation-hygiene supposition‚ this company compounds the necessity to encourage effective productivity of its employees to provide efficient service to consumers. According to Keogh (2003)‚ Motivation is one of the most loaded nouns in the English language. It has intrinsic negative‚ as well
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Week 4 Quiz Directions: Highlight the best answer to the question. Then save the quiz in Word format and submit it at the assignments location. Each question is worth 10 points. 1. What does the term "matching contribution" refer to? a. The percentage of your pay that you put into a workplace retirement plan. b. A contribution an employer makes to an employee’s defined-contribution plan that is based on the employee’s own contributions to the plan. c. A contribution an employer makes
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Professionalism in the workplace. It is defined as an individual who shows consideration and respect for others demonstrates a commitment. When you think of businessmen and women you don’t think of somebody with a beard‚ or a person covered in tattoos. But why can’t they be professionals? For years beards and tattoos were considered offensive and you were always harshly judged. Throughout recent years though‚ they have grown in popularity and the issue of whether beards and tattoos are acceptable
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Day Address: In our quest for a better environment‚ we must always remember that the most important part of the quality of life is the quality of work‚ and the new need for job satisfaction is the key to the quality of work.^ Although some might question the belief that work is a central life force‚ the statement does serve to illustrate the great amount of attention that working life has recently received. The growing concern for meaningful work‚ due largely to the accumulation of evidence that
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Case Study: Employee Motivation and Retention Strategies Prologue: The case examines the employee motivation and retention strategies of the US based XYZ Corp. Corporation (XYZ Corp.). Since its inception‚ XYZ Corp. was appreciated for its employee-friendly HR practices. However‚ during the late 1990s‚ as the company was growing rapidly in size‚ it lost the popular elements of its work culture. Moreover‚ several racial discrimination lawsuits and antitrust proceedings affected the company’s corporate
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Leadership style‚ employee motivation and commitment: The study investigated the relationship between different leadership styles and employee motivation and commitment after a merger in a retail bank operating in an economically volatile environment. Data were collected from 121 employees (17 managers and 104 non-managerial) using three closed-ended questionnaires. Using measures of central tendency and correlation analyses‚ results indicated weak but significantly positive relationship between
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Different View Points on Effectiveness of Employee Motivation Introduction Today‚ employee motivation has become significant for organisations and all sizes companies that toward their organisational objectives in a competitive marketplace. An effective employee motivation in organisation is the creation of conditions and through a variety of effective means to various needs of different staff levels‚ and the main purpose is to motivate employees who have great initative that good management
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The effect of work related stress on employee productivity By A research proposal in partial fulfillment for the required award of a bachelor degree in business management department of Masinde Muliro university of science and technology. March‚ 2012 DECLARATION Declaration by the researchers SIGN DATE Declaration by the supervisor PROFESSOR J.B. OSENO SIGN……………………. DATE………………………… TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration Dedication Acknowledgement Abbreviations Abstract
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The British Airways Strikes Effects On Employee Motivation Introduction British Airways is one of the leading airline company in Europe‚ nevertheless in the last few years it has financial problems‚ talks begin between British Airways and the Unite (Britain’s biggest union) from January of 2009 to solve the problem. At the beginning‚ the relationship between the two parties was composed‚ but the milestone was in 2009 October‚ when the British Airways stated that they are going to cut the staff
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