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Comment on 2 Theories That Can Guide You to Motivate Employees in Human Service Agencies to Their Company.

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Comment on 2 Theories That Can Guide You to Motivate Employees in Human Service Agencies to Their Company.

Introduction

The aims of this paper is to see weather the motivation theories can guide you to motivate the employees in the human service agencies. Firstly, motivation and human service agencies will be clearly defined. Secondly, the motivation theories will be talked about and applied them into the human service agencies. Finally, from the view point of social administration, we will comment weather the theories are really work in the public sectors of human service agencies.

Human service agencies

Definition of human service agencies

Ў¦They are those organizations whose principal function is to protect, maintain, or enhance the personal well-being of individuals by defining, shaping, or altering their personal attributes.Ў¦ (Hasenfeld, 1983: 1)

The job nature of human service agencies

1) To ensure the employees communicate effectively and skillfully in interpersonal relationships.

2) To ensure the employees respect diversity, and promote dignity and respect.

3) To ensure the employees maintain a positive attitude and effectively problem solve.

4) To ensure the employees advocate and promote health in self and in others.

5) To ensure the employees empower others in a principled way.

6) To ensure the employees understand professional responsibility and act on it.

Example

In the public sector, the employees can be the doctors, nurses, social workers which are related to caring and social welfare.

Motivation

Definition of motivation

Ў§Motivation takes place when people expect that a course of action is likely to lead to the attainment of a goal - a valued reward that satisfies their particular needsЎЁ. (Armstrong:2000).

Ў§The willingness

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