Motivation Employees Essays and Term Papers
376 Essays on Motivation Employees. Documents 26 - 50
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Critical Analysis Modest Motives
Modest Motives Ursula K Le Guin expresses her motive for going to the South Pole: And the desire was as pure as the polar snows: to go, to see - no more, no less. I deeply respect the scientific accomplishments of Captain Scott’s expedition, and have read with passionate interest the findings of physicists, meteorologists, biologists, etc.; but having had no training in any science, nor any opportunity for such training, my ignorance obliged me
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Happy, Productive Employees
Happy Employee are Productive Employees A just-released longitudinal study adding to the growing body of scientific evidence on employee productivity confirms that depression is common in the workplace and detrimental to employee performance. These findings are reported in the May issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the monthly scientific journal of the American Psychiatric Association. The study found that absenteeism due to health problems was twice as high for employees with depressive symptoms compared
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Job Motivation
http://www.term-papers.us/ts/bb/bmu273.shtml There are people out there in the workforce that believe they are obligated to do their best at their job simply because that is what is expected from all of us as humans. On the other hand there are those out there that want to only do as much as they can get away with doing. No matter which one of these employees you are or are working with companies and employer’s need to
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Connected with People's Employees in Their Work and in Management
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs connected with people’s employees in their work and in management Composition 1010/53 Ms. L. Wazir Lisa Jirkovsky 21. November 2004 TABLE OF CONTENT 1 Introduction 3 2 Motivation 4 2.1 Role of Managers in Motivating Employees 4 2.2 Employee Motivation 6 3 Abraham Maslow 8 4 Hierarchy of Needs 9 ‘ 9 Physiological needs 10 4.1 Safety needs 11 4.1.1 sexual harassment 11 4.2 Social needs 12 4.3 Esteem needs 13
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Retaining Staff & Reducing Employee Turnover
Retaining Staff &Reducing Employee Turnover I decided to do m topic on retaining staff & reducing employee turnover because employee turnover and the retention of valued employees are major problems facing business in the U.S. The average turnover rate is hovering at 15%. The costs associated with that turnover can be high generally 25 percent of the individual's annual salary. Unemployment in the United States is at a 24-year low. Employee loyalty is down. Never
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The Role of Affective and Motivational Factors in Statistics Performance in University Students
When faced with the prospect of having to complete a statistics course at university, students either fall into a state of anxiety about failing the course or they form a belief that they will do well. This is due to their perception of self-efficacy. Perceived self-efficacy is, as stated by Bandura (1994) & Pajares (2002), the construct of a person’s beliefs in their ability to perform in certain tasks including academic tasks. It has been
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Structure, Communication, Culture, and Motivation of a Company
Structure The structure of a company is very important in order to be a successful company. Some companies tend to leave all the decisions and ideas to the top executives or consultants. Other businesses let anyone who works for the company to have a proposal introduced no matter what position the employee holds in the company. The company I work for would be considered “bottom- up”, which means any employee can come forth with
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William Lowell Kane - Motivation
Motivation William Lowell Kane was born into a family of established wealth and status. As far as William’s father was concerned, the expectation, in fact the reason for his birth, was for William to assume the position of president and chairman of the family bank. In order to understand the actions of the character of William Kane, one must understand the motivations involved. Motivation can come from many diverse sources. One of the strongest motivators
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Employee Privacy Rights: Is There Privacy in the Workplace?
Employee Privacy Rights: Is there Privacy in the Workplace? “Big Brother is Watching You,” is a phrase taken from the 1984 written novel by George Orwell in 1949. This concept, once believed to be farfetched, may be even truer today then Orwell could have imagined. Given the rate at which technology is improving, the privacy of employees may soon become wishful thinking. Employee privacy rights are being compromised by the advanced technology involving computers, telephones,
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Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace
An employer believes that an employee is engaged in misuse of the company computer. Another employer in the same building believes that a well respected employee is secretly sharing comments regarding the company to another rival company. An office two blocks down is having trouble keeping their business staffed because the employees feel their privacy rights are not protected while on the job. Many employers feel that what their employees do while at work is
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U.S Should Admit Foreign Scientists and High-Tech Employees
According to Price in CQ Researcher-Science in America, United States is facing scientist shortage, which is threatening the nation’s world leadership in science and technology, military supremacy and standard of living. The author said that the shortage of scientist in the nation is due to American science is becoming progressively worst, not enough Americans are choosing to study science so employers want to hire foreign high-tech workers and pay them lower wages. According to the
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The Importance of Writing Skills in Business Communications: How and Why to Improve Employees’ Writing
THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITING SKILLS IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS: HOW AND WHY TO IMPROVE EMPLOYEES’ WRITING Abstract This essay describes how poorly written communication can lead to misunderstanding and a possible loss of business. Through this paper the author wants to persuade the employer to sponsor a workshop for all employees to improve their writing skills, to increase business communications and to avoid arguments through poor communication. This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of writing skills
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What Is Motivation?
The word "motivation" is often used to describe certain sorts of behaviour. A student who studies hard and tries for top grades may be described as being "highly motivated", while her friend may say that he is "finding it hard to get motivated" to study for an exam or to start an assignment. Such statements imply that motivation has a major influence on our behaviour but they don't really tell us how. A Definition of
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Theories of Motivation in the Workplace
Theories of Motivation in the Workplace At one time, in the workplace, the only type of “motivation” necessary was a command from the boss for an employee to do something (Lindner, 1998). However, times have changed and so have bosses and employees. Ever since the middle of the 20th century, various business experts and academicians have developed theories of motivation to help direct employees toward better and stronger productivity. The main theories that tend to
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Employee Monitoring
Employee Monitoring Employee monitoring involves the use of computers to observe, record, and review an employee’s use of a computer, including communications such as email, keyboard activity (used to measure productivity), and Web sites visited. Many computer programs exist that easily allow companies to monitor employees. Further, it is legal for companies to use these programs. A frequently debated matter is whether an employer has the right to read employee email messages. Actual policies vary
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Business Motivation
Motivation is the tendency to expend effort to achieve a goal and the desire to accomplish an aim or participate in an endeavour. Motivation towards better performance depends on the satisfaction of needs for responsibility, achievement, recognition and growth. Needs are felt, and their intensity varies from one person to another and from time to time, and so does the extent to which they are motivating. Attaining goals leads to feelings of self-respect, strength and
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Workplace Motivation Paper
Workplace Motivation Paper The job of the manager is to get things done through his or her employees. In my workplace, our company has put in to affect several motivational strategies to assist their management through their train program. In this training program the company uses extrinsic motivation to assist in the development of our staff. This training program is based on four levels of training and development; at each level of the employees’ development
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What Behaviour Predications Might You Make If You Knew That an Employee Had Locus of Control
The locus of control can either be internal (meaning you believe that you control yourself and your life) or external (meaning you believe that your environment, some higher power or other people control your decisions and your life). It was developed by Rotter in 1954 as an important aspect of personality. Empirical research findings have implied the following differences between internals and externals: 1. Internals are more likely to work for achievements, to tolerate delays
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Employee Morale After Downsizing
Employee Morale After Downsizing Downsizing has become a significant idea in today's economy and maintaining the trust of employees when something like this takes place has also become very serious business (Brockner, Konovsky, Cooper-Schneider, Folger, Martin, & Bies, 1994). The question is not whether a company should downsize their employees but how to do the downsizing properly so that as few employees as possible are injured (Brockner, Konovsky, Cooper-Schneider, Folger, Martin, & Bies, 1994). There
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Importance of Motivation - Kathy Kudler
Importance of motivation Most motivation theorists assume that motivation is involved in the performance of all learned responses; that is, a learned behavior will not occur unless it is energized. The major question among psychologists, in general, is whether motivation is a primary or secondary influence on behavior. That is, are changes in behavior better explained by principles of environmental/ecological influences, perception, memory, cognitive development, emotion, explanatory style, or personality or are concepts unique to
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Shortage of Employees
A shortage of employees can be the result of either a short term issue or a long term issue. An example of a short term issue would be the need to create a new product display for an upcoming open house and an example of a long term issue would be the need to develop an entirely new product line. The need to create a product display is something that could possibly be done within
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Rewarding Individual Employees Through Variable Pay Programs
In deciding what to pay employees, and how to pay them, management must make some strategic decisions. Will the organization lead, match, or lag the market in pay? How will individual contributions be recognized? There are many ways to pay employees. The process of initially setting pay levels entails balancing internal equity, the worth of the job to the organization, and external equity, the external competitiveness of an organization’s pay relative to pay elsewhere in
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Motives
Motives for writing come in different shapes forms and sizes. Motives drive the need for writing and without motives, most of the greatest writers would have never created some of the masterpieces modern society has come to known. Although motives are abundant, two obtrude from the rest. These two are the main exigencies that George Orwell believe causes writers to write. The necessitate for finding the truth for the sole purpose to use that information
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Motivational Theories
Motivational Theories There are many different ways to motivate. It's amazing how often we use these at work and at home. These five types of motivational theory have been identified as the major groups: need; reinforcement; equity; expectancy; and goal getting. First is the Need theory which focuses on what people require to live fulfilling lives. People need different things. The need will turn into a drive or motivation to fulfill that need and eventually
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Maslow’s Therory of Motivation
Maslow's theory of motivation includes five increasingly higher-level needs. Maslow calls these needs physiological, (hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, etc), security, (safety, protection from physical and emotional harm) social, (affection, belonging, acceptance, friendship) self-esteem, (self respect, autonomy, achievement, status, recognition, attention) and self-actualization, (doing things) 1. Maslow points out that hierarchy is dynamic, the dominant need is always shifting. The hierarchy does not exist by itself, but is affected by the situation and the general culture.
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