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  • Motivating Employees

    Motivating Employees

    While working as a manager in an organization, his job is to make sure that the employees are doing their jobs and they are doing it in the most productive way. But employees are not machines that we could just program their task in their brain and they will do it automatically, they require motivation to actually do their job properly. This is easier said then done, to understand the ways of motivating people we

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Motivating Employess: Most Effective Leadership Style

    Motivating Employess: Most Effective Leadership Style

    Abstract Part of being a successful leader is knowing what things lead to failure as well as what things leads to success. Effective leadership must have cognitive, interpersonal, and political skills; project management skills; and technical expertise (Yukl, 2006). Leaders must also be able to envision, organize, socially integrate, and externally span to ensure that his team is effective and efficient in achieving goals, maintaining team cohesion, and keeping the decisions compatible with the organization’s

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    Essay Length: 3,452 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Vika
  • Motivating in Management

    Motivating in Management

    II. INTRO One of the key aspects of management is motivating. Finding the right form of motivation is a problem that’s been around ever since motivation in the work place was conceived as an idea. As of now, there are several theories to what kind of motivation works the best to get an employee motivated to produce their best work. Unfortunately, many try motivating employees by using extrinsic rewards, such as cash or the like.

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Motivating Subordinates

    Motivating Subordinates

    Motivation as a subjective experience, is the readiness to act or behave in a particular way. People do what they do or behave the way they do, because it helps them to satisfy some of their needs and experience pleasure or it helps them to avoid thwarting of certain needs and consequent experience of displeasure. Under certain circumstances people act in such a way that they seek satisfaction of some of their needs (for example

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Jack
  • Motivating Your Employees

    Motivating Your Employees

    MOTIVATING YOUR EMPLOYEES Every human being needs motivation now and then. Incentives and recognition programs can support you in helping your employees become happier and more productive at work. As a leader, one of the main things to think about is how to recognize an employee for a performance that has exceeded expectations, objectives and goals. Therefore, I would like to introduce you in this paper to some ideas that hopefully would promote this method

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    Essay Length: 1,085 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    I believe that any of the tools that are at managerЎ¦s disposal for motivating their employees can work anywhere. That is if they have a leader and a director instead of a manager that tells them what to do. That is the key to improving performance through motivation. I am motivated at my place of work when my manager is motivated, she is the one that motivates me. She trusts me and encourages me on

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    Essay Length: 533 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Max
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Introduction to the concept of ‘Motivation’ According to Greenberg (1999) motivation is defined “as a process of arousing, directing and maintaining behaviour towards a goal.” Where ‘directing’ refers to the selection of a particular behaviour; and ‘maintenance’ refers to the inclination to behave with consistency in that manner until the desired outcome is met. Motivation is therefore the force that transforms and uplifts people to be productive and perform in their jobs. Maximising an employee’s

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Michael Brokenburr Management 490 2:00 May 4, 2005 The focus of this paper is to discuss what motivation is and ways managers can acquire the most out of our employees. Managers must ask themselves certain questions in the work place when comes to motivation. Why do some people work hard and others coast? Why do some leaders have high-producing units and others, with employees of comparable background, have low producing ones? Why are some organizations

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    Essay Length: 1,415 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jack
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Motivation is nothing but an effort by the managers to help people focus their minds and capabilities on doing their work as effectively and efficiently as possible. Trust is another key to motivate people to perform at their best. Effective interpersonal communication also helps to develop an environment that motivates employees. If the employees are aware what the expectations of the managers are they can perform their jobs more effectively. A truly motivating environment is

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    Essay Length: 539 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Max
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    I once had an interesting conversation with the owner/manager of a clothing manufacturing company. He operated a large and successful business, principally supplying uniforms for the corporate market. He was surprised by some of his workers. They worked on a piece work rate (paid per item) and some of the very efficient staff did not produce as much as they were capable of. They worked hard at the start of the pay period, but then

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    Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Janna
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Job Satisfaction PSY428/Organizational Psychology June 10, 2005 Michael Phillips Abstract The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how motivation is instilled in the workplace with co-workers and oneself. In addition, objects that make the job satisfying will be discussed. Body Motivation is something that can come and go in an instant. The workplace often can be a fun and enjoyable place, but other times it can be the pit of hell. Not only

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    Essay Length: 956 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Max
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Most of the problems in life stem from one cause: we can't get ourselves to take some type of action. Whether it's changing our diet and working out or taking a risk and going back to school, actions stand between where we are and where we want to be. As you already know, it's not that we don't know what to do - the answers to what we need to do are all around us.

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    Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Motivation is defined as, “the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.” Motivation is key in personal life as well as the career world. Motivation in the work place is highly dependent on employers being able to understand the needs and wants of their employees. When employers can understand and satisfy an employee’s needs, the employee is more inclined to perform well in his position. “The ranked order of motivating

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Every single day you wake up to go to work the chances are you probably want to stay in bed and wake up later, but the majority of times you don’t and you get up and get ready and then eventually arrive at work. Why do we do this? We do this because there is something driving us to do it, there is something telling us that we need to get to work, for some

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Motivation

    Motivation

     Determine your par stock, lead time for orders and shelf life of food items. If you can project your consumption and lead time on certain items, you can order just enough and just in time. This avoids over stocking on items and hurting your credit or cash flow. This will also help you budget your expense allocation for cost of goods or food costs. Most importantly, this will minimize spoilage greatly.  Always look

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    There are many books about motivation, therefore there are a lot of theories referring to how to apply them to motivate employees to work more efficiently. The ability to motivate is the core feature of effective managers and leaders. However it still remains one of the most difficult parts of their work. The basic area of motivation, in which a manager may succeed most, is the mutual communication based on respect and appreciation to the

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    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    During the recent years motivation has been one of the "hot" topics when talking about performance improvement or productivity gains. There are many concepts and applications of motivation used in day-to-day activities used by many organisations around the word however, it seems to be very difficult for everybody to find the correct "mix". The purpose of this paper is to review and analyse ideas, concepts and theories of three academic journals articles on motivation. In

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    Submitted: April 23, 2011 By: bejca06
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Daniel J Cross Daniel J Cross Dr. Virginia Rae BUS 100-100F 11/12/2015 Motivation First-line(supervisory) management: “Managers who directly supervise non-management employees.” (Kelly & Williams, 2015 p. 235). Human Skill: “The ability to work effectively with and through other people in a range of different relationships.” (Kelly & Williams, 2015 p. 236). Conceptual skills: “The ability to grasp a big-picture view of the overall organization, the relationships among its various parts, and its fit in the

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    Essay Length: 779 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2017 By: Danny Cross
  • Motivation (fmc Green River & Aberdeen)

    Motivation (fmc Green River & Aberdeen)

    In this Individual Project we will discuss the issues of FMC Green River focusing on Employee Motivation, along with Job Design and Goal Setting, Performance Appraisal, Pay and Career Development. This analysis has been requested to be continued by Mr. Kenneth Dailey with FMC Green River. FMC is and has been a successful company for the last fifty-six years. First originated in 1948 and produced 1.3 million tons of various grades of soda ash a

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    Essay Length: 1,972 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Anna
  • Motivation (green River)

    Motivation (green River)

    Introduction There are a few differences that exist between FMC green River and FMC Aberdeen. First I will explain the background for both of these facilities. Then I will describe my analysis of the situation in regards to job design and goal-setting, performance appraisals, pay, and career development. Then I will explain some alternatives and recommendations that I have for them. After all that is said and done I will also explain how the implementation

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    Essay Length: 1,666 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • Motivation - How Should Organizations Make Decisions?

    Motivation - How Should Organizations Make Decisions?

    Organizations should make their decisions in a rational manner. As we see business fall daily by the wayside we see that many are failing to act in such a manner. Much of these failures are due to poor decision making processes which can be tied to numerous factors as misplaced loyalties, greed or just plain ignorance. I will try to describe the manner in which a successful business should have its decision making processes. In

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Motivation and Demotivation

    Motivation and Demotivation

    Motivation and Demotivation Motivation is a big topic either in management or human nature aspect. In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of behavior (Geen, 1995). Motivation is acquired working in an organization especially working in a group. Numbers of theories about motivation from various perspectives by different people have applied in practice, such as MaslowЎЇs hierarchy of human needs, HerzbergЎЇs two factor theory and the recently introduced Ў°self controlЎ±.

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Bred
  • Motivation and Leadership

    Motivation and Leadership

    Motivation The very concept that motivation is a result of the interaction between situation and individual and that it is a process that account for an individual’s intensity, direction and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal was very insightful and helpful. Before going through the reading material, we had always thought of motivation as a desire in a person to perform well or the task of a manager to get the job done. We

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    Essay Length: 892 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Motivation and Social Responsibility of the Free Market

    Motivation and Social Responsibility of the Free Market

    There are more factors that affect job satisfaction and motivate employees to work for a particular company than the salary and benefits paid for their services. According to Hackman & Oldman’s Job Characteristics Model, jobs should contain various characteristics in order to be a motivating job and to contribute to employee or job satisfaction. These characteristics are: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback. Along with this job’s characteristics a motivating job should

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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Motivation Essay

    Motivation Essay

    The managerial role can be broadly defined and the style of management practice employed within the organisation can significantly impact motivation and productivity. Organisational structure makes possible the application management practice; with structure varying on the purpose of the business. Organisational culture is the way in which a business operates and is perceived. If these are both implemented effectively this again can creates motivation, satisfaction of £££££££ ££££ employees and business success. Stewart (1967) described a

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    Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2015 By: Tinkerbell01
  • Motivation for Employees

    Motivation for Employees

    Can your motivation recommendations for FMC Green River be effective at other companies? Why or why not? Use the text, other materials, and your own experience to support your argument. If you use other sources, cite them using APA guidelines. The motivation could be effective for a lot of other companies as well as Green River. I believe that with hard work and a set plan you can accomplish anything. The difficulty that other companies

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    Essay Length: 659 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Motivation in Business

    Motivation in Business

    Many businesses today strive to uncover motivating factors that will help them achieve success with in their industry. There are many things to consider when motivating employees, a good analogy is the one that says you can lead a horse to water but you can not force the horse to drink. If we look at this analogy we can compare it to the fact that you can give a person a job but you can

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    Essay Length: 2,024 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Motivation in Employee Retention

    Motivation in Employee Retention

    1.0 Preamble Ligonier Steel Corporation is located in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. It’s a small plant with 250 employees. Tom Fry is the plant manager. At the time, it is observed that the firm faced productivity growth rate issues –resulting to stagnation for 2.5 years. This necessitated concerns from Mr Tom Fry, the plant manager, in intervening motivation as factor of enhancing performance at the firm. From the case, it is observed; 1. Sticky Issues –Management Attention

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    Essay Length: 2,075 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 31, 2016 By: dmasai
  • Motivation in Human Resource Management

    Motivation in Human Resource Management

    According to Mann, motivation is a key component of the development function in human resource management. Indeed, finding effective ways to motivate employees is an important and challenging role for any manager; regardless of the sector (2006). Kudlers total reward system is a type of reward system that comprises all aspect of the company’s activities before compensations are paid. The reward system is so specific and narrowed that it gives employees all the information they

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    Essay Length: 446 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Motivation in Marketing

    Motivation in Marketing

    The product that I recently bought was the MacBook, the Apple laptop. At the time I bought it, I have such a high level of drive that arouses me to satisfy the needs. I finally decide to reduce the tension, occurs from the discrepancy between my present state (of not having it) and my goal (owns a notebook), by buying it. The motivation I had then resulted from my needs, both utilarian and hedonic. On

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    Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Monika
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