owners who had prepared business plans had found their business plans to be useful more as guidelines for operating their businesses than as tools for raising business funds. The most important reasons for not preparing business plans were not having to use bank financing and being highly experienced in the entrepreneurs’ lines of business. Fifty percent of business owners with industry/business experience didn’t prepare business plans‚ and frequently saw their experience to be a substitute for business
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Importance of Employee Health Melissa Harter February 3‚ 2012 Abstract For years it didn’t seem important for companies to address occupational health. For the last 40 years it has become more apparent that these issues are of great importance to the overall success of a business. I will be discussing the importance of employee health in a company‚ the types of programs often provided‚ and the federal regulations that pertain to health in the workplace. I will also address current
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understanding the importance of employee engagement and implementing a well-developed internal communications plan is crucial for success‚ especially during change (Dolphin‚ 1999). The organisation should be guided by experts through all this complexity if it wants to overcome all the tension that originates from the dynamics of change and survive. THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT Many authors claim that an organisation´s accomplishments‚ financial performance and employee outcomes may be predicted
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Abstract This essay was written on Employee motivation in Apple company. I pointed out couple motivation theories that were developed in order to show people the ways of motivating. First and base theory is Maslow’s hierarchy pyramid then there are Equity theories and Two factor theory. The most popular and efficient motivation theory is goal seeking motivation theory. This theory was made in order to motivate staff to seek new opportunities how to solve a problems or reach their goals. In the second
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cases of conflicts and severe misunderstandings. Assign them targets and ask all your team members to contribute equally and achieve the target within the desired time frame. Motivate them to work in groups. This way employees have no other choice than to trust their fellow workers and take each other’s help as well. An employee must have the liberty to express his ideas and all of them should sit together to decide on something which would be beneficial to all. One should try his level best that all
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options. Employee compensation was first introduced to America by Europe and imbedded in the colonies. “The Plymouth Colony settlers’ military retirement program‚ which was established in 1636‚ was of the first compensation programs recorded.” (EBRI‚ 2008) Employee benefits are now offered from many companies to attract‚ retrain‚ improve morale and promote employee productivity. Many companies feel that employee compensation is the dominant factor in employee satisfaction. Several theories have been
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A Study on Motivating Employees Motivation is a set of forces that directs an individual to the behavior that results in better job performance. A motivated employee might work harder than expected to complete the task proactively‚ find ways to improve the quality and efficiency of the work environment. It is the willingness to exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals‚ conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need Motivation is the reason or reasons
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One of the central tenants of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory‚ which is also called Social Cognitive Theory‚ is that “aggression in children is influenced by the reinforcement of family members‚ the media‚ and the environment” (Bandura‚ 1975‚ pp. 206-208). Evans (1989) suggested that the basis for Bandura’s theories came from work completed by researchers Miller and Dollard (1941) who suggested that human development is actively influenced by “response consequences” (Evans‚ 1989‚ p. 4)‚ but
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How to motivate and controlling your team Success in business is rarely down to technical skills or knowledge alone. Getting the most from your team is the sign of a good manager. The key to this is motivating people and giving them space to develop themselves to their full potential. And we must can controlling our team. If you can’t‚ you can’t lead the team and your will be not success. First how to motivate your team? I have some tips to motivate your team : 1. Start with yourself To
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Summarizing the four contexts that motivate learning‚ (Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic). I believe Personal experience(s) help motivate us to learn better ways of accomplishing goals and much more. The personal is part of the experiential and practical part of learning from the personal things we come in to contact with; which brings more knowledge to learn‚ growth and bring in logic. All together we have an idealistic
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