Motivational Theories Essays and Term Papers
745 Essays on Motivational Theories. Documents 326 - 350
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Rewards and Motivation
Rewards and Motivation U.S. companies face greater pressures today than ever before to improve cost efficiency and in the same breathe taking their products to market faster, cheaper and with stronger innovation, regulatory compliance, responding to ever increasing regulations around the world that often conflict with each other. A company must also be nimble enough to change direction quickly and cost-effectively when market conditions shift. At the same time, they still must provide an
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Manaerial Theories of He 21st Century
Contents Management vs Leadership 3 Management 4 Fig. 1 – Managerial Roles 5 Cross Cultural Diversity and Globalisation 6 Hofstede 6 Flexibility 8 Fig. 1 8 Shamrock Model 9 Managerial Theories of the 21st Century Businesses are all around; they compile the backbone of society’s configuration. Without the innovations and opportunities that are brought by these companies, lifestyle, as we know it, would be a shadow of how it is today. Due to the importance
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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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Labeling Theory - Sociology
Gender refers to the significance a society attaches to the biological categories of female and male. Typically they are differentiated into feminine and masculine traits. Biologically, males and females reveal limited differences. GENDER IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Israeli Kibbutzim The significance played by culture in the development of gender is illustrated by various types of research, including studies that focus on egalitarian gender role patterns in the Israeli kibbutzim. Margaret Mead's Research Other cross-cultural evidence,
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Essay Topic: Drawing from Current Literature, Discuss the Relationship Between Pay and Performance Motivation.
The effectiveness of an organization leans on a lot of forces. One really important force is the work team. The work team is the people who work for the production. So, we can easily understand that to achieve an organization their goals have to collect the right workers (persons who have the right knowledge and skills) for a specific work position and to train them correctly, seeing that the organization use the right systems of
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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development During the 1920s, a biologist named Jean Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive development of children. He caused a new revolution in thinking about how thinking develops. In 1984, Piaget observed that children understand concepts and reason differently at different stages. Piaget stated children's cognitive strategies which are used to solve problems, reflect an interaction BETWEEN THE CHILD'S CURRENT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE AND experience in the world. Research on cognitive development
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Motivational Analysis of the New England and Chesapeake Colonies
The colonies of New England and Chesapeake sprouted from a common origin and spoke the same tongue yet had little in common with each other. Despite geographic and demographic differences in the Chesapeake and New England colonies, the most influential factor in determining why each colony developed differently was each colony’s motives. It was through this motivational difference that distinctly divided the New World into the North and South. When immigrants fled form England due
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Equity Theory
Equity Theory, also known as Adams' Equity Theory, attempts to explain relational satisfaction in terms of perceptions of fair/unfair distributions of resources within interpersonal relationships. It was first developed in 1963 by John Stacy Adams, a workplace and behavioral psychologist, who asserted that employees seek to maintain equity between the inputs that they bring to a job and the outcomes that they receive from it against the perceived inputs and outcomes of others (Adams, 1965).
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Motivation
1.0 Introduction The employees within an organization are a key resource. They account for a significant role in achieving the objectives of the organization. The performance and achievement of employees, to a large extent, has a significant impact on the growth and efficiency within an organization. In order to ensure the employees to work consistently with the accomplishment of organizational goals, motivation then is the key in influencing the behavior and morale of employees. Given
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Can Biological Theories Explain Rolex Watches in Addition to Peacocks Tails?
Can biological theories explain Rolex watches in addition to peacock’s tails? As humans, we do many things which are not instrumentally useful in an evolutionary sense: we dance, get drunk, create art, listen to music, and dress up in expensive clothing, amongst other things. These exhibitions of “useless” behaviours cannot be accounted for simply because we are reported to be in an evolutionary disequilibrium (Kirk et al, 2001); even our ancestors exhibited many of these
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Individual Level - Highly Motivated Employees
Individual Level - Highly Motivated Employees Competitive Compensation Package Expectancy Theory (Valence-Instrumentality- Expectancy Theory) The strength and tendency to act in a certain way depends on the strength of an expectation that the act will be followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome. (Vroom 1964). Google has been able to motivate and retain its high quality staff through its outstanding compensation package, which includes employee stock options, high pay and
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Business Cycle Theory
The Sticky-Wage Model In this model, economists pursue the sluggish adjustment of nominal wages path to explain why it is that the short-run aggregate supply curve is upward sloping. For sticky nominal wages, an increase in the price level lowers the real wage therefore making labor cheaper for firms. Cheaper labor means that firms will hire more labor, and the increased labor will in turn produce more output. The time period where the nominal wage
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Workplace Motivation
Organizations include many different types of people and personalities that in turn create a need for different types of motivational strategies. In our organization we have three types of employees that we work with: salespeople, production workers, and administrative staff. We will be discussing which motivational theories affect each group and why it impacts each group differently. Production Staff The production staff in our organization seems to be motivated best using “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”
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Southwest Airlines - Company Motivation Profile
Southwest Airlines - Company Motivation Profile Sam George Daher, BUS 6351 Business and Society Professor Fernando Garza Wednesday, May 2nd, 2006 Abstract Southwest Airlines is one of the most desired employers. The company’s unique corporate culture has been established since Southwest Airlines first started. In addition, Southwest Airline’s mission statement, organizational structure, and decision-making strategies are also important to Southwest’s culture. Southwest Airline uses many motivational strategies to keep its employees motivated. From the benefits,
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Multi Attribution Utility Theory
Dan, Please review the tables below, and consider them as a possible solution to the recent problems of poor decision making by the new managers. Obviously, the managers’ decision making problems result from poor decision framing. They are not considering all aspects of the problems, nor properly weighing the consequences of their decisions. The tables below are from the Multi-Attribution Utility Theory (MUAT) worksheets that should drastically improve the process of decision making for the
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Organizational Theory and Behavior
Organizational Theory and Behavior Homework #3 October 9, 2007 What advancement barriers did Lisa encounter? Although Lisa Weber was a highly qualified, ambitious analyst for the firm, she never had a chance for advancement because of that glass ceiling. The idea of becoming a partner was always visible, but never attainable because of the various obstacles she had to face. The same obstacles most women face when trying to climb the corporate ladder. Several barriers
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Comforting the Neonate; Application of the Comfort Care Theory
Comforting the Neonate; application of the Comfort Care Theory Introduction An anonymous author once said, “In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.” The comfort care theory by Katharine Kolcaba exemplifies this by creating a baseline of quality care that both nurses and doctors can utilize in providing care to a dying patient. Comfort has been called a distinguishing characteristic of the nursing
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Comforting the Neonate and the Comfort Care Theory
Running head: COMFORTING THE NEONATE AND THE COMFORT CARE THEORY Comforting the neonate; application of the comfort care theory Lindsey Braswell Union University, Jackson, Tennessee Comforting the neonate; application of the comfort care theory The case study of interest is about a baby that will be referred to as Caitlin. Caitlin was an ex-twenty-three weaker born to a primigravida forty-year-old mother. Caitlin was born via cesearan section, intubated immediately and brought to the Neonatal Intensive
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Schutz's Theory
In today’s paper, I will be analysis personal relationship using Schutz’s theory of interpersonal needs. According to Communication Making Connection by William J. Seiler and Melissa L. Beall, Schutz’s theory implies that we have three needs: the need for affection, the need for inclusion, and the need for control. According to Schutz’s theory, the need for affection is the need to feel likeable or lovable. If various people like a specific person, that person has
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Philogiston Theory
Phlogiston Theory According to the phlogiston theory, propounded in the 17th century, every combustible substance consisted of a hypothetical principle of fire known as phlogiston, which was liberated through burning, and a residue. The word phlogiston was first used early in the 18th century by the German chemist Georg Ernst Stahl. Stahl declared that the rusting of iron was also a form of burning in which phlogiston was freed and the metal reduced to an
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International Trade Theories
INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORIES One of the avenues to address this is to seek help from the Embassy of the other country. For example, if the Canadian Embassy in South Korea will not help a Canadian find information on importing some product from South Korea, you can simply go to the office of the South Korean (ROK) Consulate in Toronto or the Korean Embassy in Ottawa and their staff will be pleased to provide assistance. Adam
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Motivation Concepts
Why do people explore the unknown? Research explores that the operands of curiosity and exploration are motivational drivers. Motivation can be defined as the arousal, direction and persistence of behavior. (Franken, 1994) Motivation is an internal state or condition that activates behavior giving direction towards one’s desire or want. The motivational drive is a basic or instinctive need associated in the effort of behavior directed towards a goal-oriented cause. Curiosity is central to motivation for
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Analysis of Employee Motivation in Ilanco Inc.
Table of contents 1- Introduction …………………………………………………………………….. (1) 2- Description of manufacturing industry - Description of Ilanco Inc…………………………………………………………(2) 3- Description and analysis of the problems and theory application ……………….(3) 4- Recommendations……………………………………………………………….. (9) 5- Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….…..(13) 6- Bibliography / Works Cited ………………………………………………………(14) Introduction The purpose of this report is to analyse the problems of employee motivation at Ilanco Inc., a relatively small manufacturing company located in Montreal. For many years, this company operates in sweater production, and belongs
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Development of Psychological Defense Mechanism Pertaining to the Cress Color Confrontation Theory
Development of Psychological Defense Mechanisms The id is the subconscious part of the brain that is the center of controlling all unknown pleasures or desires. These desires one may or may not be aware of, however, according to Freud, one will never be capable of understanding all desires. The ego mediates among the id, the super-ego and the external world. Its task is to find a balance between primitive drives, morals, and reality while
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Theory of Creativity
"Alice is brilliant, but she doesn't have a drop of creative talent." "Barbara is wonderfully creative, but she does poorly on standardized tests." "Carlos always has interesting approaches to problems, but he just doesn't fit into the traditional school environment." How many times have we, as teachers, administrators, researchers, or parents, heard remarks like these? And how many times have we concluded that abilities are etched in stone, inexplicable, and unchangeable? You can learn and
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