Beh225 Checkpoint: Motivating Employees
Motivating Employees
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Motivating Employees
There are many reasons to motivate employees – as well as methods to successfully motivating employees. Firstly and obviously, employees who are motivated are much more productive than employees who are not. In addition, people who work for companies who are more motivated can help the company survive. Moreover, where there is one motivated employee the company stands a greater chance of receiving other individuals to become just as motivated or notice good habits and work ethics. Others may see that the motivated individual is being treated in an enhanced way contrasting the way that the non-accomplished individual is being treated. Motivation is the drive to get things done. Motivation at work is a difficult practice. An employer must be be aware of how to motivate and how to reward. The manager should be able to motivate employees to get things done. In order to do this the manager should know the employees’ needs and take into consideration that human nature is very different. Research bellows the principles of Maslow’s first theory of motivation and Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory.
Allen (1998) supports Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory… such motivators as “achievement, recognition, advancement, responsibility, the work itself, and growth possibilities”, which are intrinsic, provides satisfaction and the workplace (para. 10). Therefore, motivation is necessary for improvement in job performance which moves the employee to higher acting (Allen, 1998).
“Dissatisfaction occurs when the following hygiene factors, extrinsic or job context, are not present on the job: pay, status, job security, working conditions, company policy, peer relations, and supervision” (Allen, 1998, para. 11). These factors do not generate motivation, but prevent it...
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