What can employees do to motivate themselves

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Homework: Workplace Motivation- Organizational Behavior and Teamwork

Overview

As in some of the other homeworks in this course, you will draw upon your personal experience for this Module 2 Case Homework about Workplace Motivation.

For the homework, you will consider the topic of employee motivation for a diverse group of employees who represent different ethnicities, religions, ages, and genders. There are many ways to impact employee motivation, such as with job enrichment or rotation, work-life balance, flexible work hours, job sharing, telecommuting, employee recognition and empowerment, and financial incentives. When determining which of these to use to motivate a diverse group of employees, one must consider that every person is motivated in different ways and with different tools. For instance, your company may set up a comfortable place where employees of different faiths can do their daily ablutions or prayers.

You will prepare a presentation that proposes options for employees to vote on adopting at your own workplace, keeping in mind the demographics of the employee pool as different people require different motivators. You can use the list already provided, but if you do, please add more of your own ideas to the list. Talk with your own HR manager about what they feel is wanted by the employees where you work. (You will select 5 of these topics to put into this PowerPoint presentation.)

For an overview of some important current issues regarding workplace motivation, such as telecommuting and working remotely, and the different things employees consider to be valued motivators, you may find the following articles interesting:

1) Aleksic-Glišovic, M., Jerotijevic, G., & Jerotijevic, Z. (2019). Modern approaches to employee motivation. Ekonomika, 65(2), 121-133. doi:10.5937/ekonomika1902121A. Available in the Trident Online Library.

2) Elvie, M. (2019). The influence of organizational culture, compensation and interpersonal communication in employee performance through work motivation as mediation. International Review of Management and Marketing, 9(5), 133-140. Available in the Trident Online Library.

3) MacRae, I., Furnham, A., & Reed, M. (2018). Chapter 12: Motivators and attitudes. In High potential: how to spot, manage and develop talented people at work, (2nd ed.). [Books24x7 version]. Available in the Trident Online Library.

4) Samsudin, N. H. (2019, September 20). The method of managing employee motivation in Islam: Analysis on reward methods. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioral Sciences. The Second International Conference on Humanities. Future Academy.

Case Homework

In the background materials, you read about some very traditional theories of motivation such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory. You also learned about how people of other ethnicities or religions are motivated in the workplace. Now you will connect those theories to identifying appropriate motivational tools for the following four employees who each represent a different ethnic group where you work:

Adara is a 26-year-old married Muslim mother of two who was born in Detroit, Michigan, but moved away and became a valued employee three years ago. She has an associate degree in accounting and is also going to school to earn a bachelor's degree in accounting.

Ivy, a single 22-year-old African American, and a recent college graduate with a bachelor's degree in marketing, has been with the company for just three months. She is the company's social media marketing assistant.

Maria, a 30-year-old single mother of three who is originally from Puerto Rico, has been with the company for five years. She works as an administrative assistant and is going to school online to earn a degree in business administration.

Richard, a married, white 45-year-old man and father of four children, has been with the company for 16 years and is the Director of Finance.

Consider a time at work when you felt highly motivated. Think about exactly what motivates you personally. Can you apply Maslow's and Herzberg's theories to yourself? Now, think about what these four named employees might want or need to motivate them, again applying Maslow's or Herzberg's theories. Be sure to conduct some research in the library and read the background readings about what motivates different employee groups.

At work, you are offered the opportunity to develop a PowerPoint presentation that introduces employees to tools your company may adopt to increase employee motivation.

You have come up with 5 tools that you feel will motivate the employees to complete their work in a satisfactory manner, leading to meeting organizational goals. You will apply at least two tools to each of the four named employees and explain why you chose them as motivational tools.

Your presentation should cover the following:

Question 1) What are 5 tools managers and organizations use to motivate their employees? Include a short discussion of which of the two theories (Maslow or Herzberg, or both) addresses each tool on the appropriate slides' notes page.

Question 2) What can employees do to motivate themselves?

Question 3) What motivates you to complete your own work and are you motivated according to Maslow's or Herzberg's theory?

Question 4) What two tools do you identify as appropriate to each of the four employees, Adara, Ivy, Maria, and Richard? Why did you select those? Are they connected to the motivational theory of Maslow, Herzberg, or both?

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