999 Search Results for Performance and Motivation at Work
Motivation Methods
The success, performance, as well as development of an employee are influenced by motivation. There are numerous methods and theories on motivation. McClelland, for instance, in his theory expresses that each employee has specific Continue Reading...
Embracing the limits of my control will enable me to deal with stress appropriately.
Nonverbal and Cultural Barriers to Communication
It is only when the intended receiver of a message understands the information contained within the message that Continue Reading...
This in turn means that the adequate decisions would be made.
The high quality appraisal system creates opportunities for the employees to be promoted to higher positions, which also come with higher pays and more benefits, to create higher levels Continue Reading...
Motivation
Organizational behavior is a field of study that is of particular importance to enterprises and those in management positions. One of the major issues that firms have to deal with is the problem of motivation. The purpose of this discussi Continue Reading...
Motivation: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic
Motivation plays a critical role in the success of an organization. Employees who are motivated to achieve organizational goals and targets leave a positive impression on the overall performance of that organizatio Continue Reading...
Motivation Theory: Intrinsic v Extrinsic
The objective of this study is to examine intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. Toward this end this work will examine the literature in this area of study.
The work of McCullagh (2005) is reported to state th Continue Reading...
Every person who had performed well and met the deadlines was offered a cash bonus at the end of six-month period when performance appraisals were done. However I realized that Sarah was not motivated by this cash reward. She had one child who went Continue Reading...
Performance Evaluation
CEO
From: Non-CEO
Re: Internal Performance Evaluation System
Purpose of the Evaluation System
For the company Whole Foods, an internal performance evaluation system should be in place to ensure that the company maximizes i Continue Reading...
Motivation
I recently discovered that a female employee was being paid more than I even though we were both hired at the same time. The reason (as I discerned it) was that they had to pay her more because she was needed for a project that required a Continue Reading...
Although his theory is not necessarily incompatible with Maslow and Alderfer's ideas, Herzberg places less emphasis on basic needs, and more upon using higher, internal needs to elicit optimal performance from the individual.
One common objection t Continue Reading...
Passing to a deeper analysis (made through a cognitive and not behavioural perpective), the terms of value and expectancy can be replaced with the ones of "amount" and "rate." The cognitive approach underlines the fact that the importance of the va Continue Reading...
Performance Management Systems
The Paradox of Performance Management Systems
And Their Effect on Corporate Performance
Performance Management Systems including annual performance reviews are only as effective as the contextual relevance and insigh Continue Reading...
Motivation
The theory of motivation has as many various meanings as there are its function and intended the desired outcome for that mater. Motivation can be defined as a psychological element that prompts an organism into deeds focused on a set tar Continue Reading...
All of these are admittedly challenging problems and the key to lasting change is that employees must first identify and internalize the need and desire for change for these strategies to succeed.
References
Yuen H. Chan, Robert R. Taylor, Scott M Continue Reading...
In the context of Charters Schools, distributed leadership that connects organizational features (culture, business practices, motivation etc.) provides a greater opportunity for members to learn from one another. An increased participation in decis Continue Reading...
Motivation is the key to materializing energy and getting things accomplished. Organizational relationships require proper motivation from all sides of the relationships. Leaders must be motivated and workers must be motivated as well in order to suc Continue Reading...
Work Life Balance - the Role of HRM
Human resources management come with massive demands chiefly in light of the fact that it involves dealing with people, a task that is complex in itself. To enhance organizational growth, pleasure on the part of w Continue Reading...
Research has identified ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck as the most important achievement attributions. The last category focuses on two issues: how motivation gets translated into regulated behavior, and how motivation and cognition are Continue Reading...
Performance Appraisals
This analysis will provide an overview of the 360-degree performance appraisal. A 360-degree feedback system is also known by a number of other names such as a multi-rater feedback, multisource feedback, or multisource assessm Continue Reading...
Performance Motivation
Bloodstream Infections in NICU
Bloodstream infections in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) are a serious concern for parents and health care professionals. Exposure to bloodstream infections for most patients will cause Continue Reading...
Performance Standards
The Imperative for Job Performance Standards
One of the greatest mistakes that an employer can make is the failure to provide personnel with a clear set of directives on what is expected of them on the job. While most employee Continue Reading...
Society also ingrains many values and ideas into its populace, for instance, by gender conditioning. Boys are told they should not cry or display feeling while it is okay for a girl to do it. Boys are also expected to be tough and aggressive and to Continue Reading...
Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
To compete and excel is part of human nature. In sporting activities, it has always driven young athletes to perform feats of ever-higher levels of strength, endurance, and speed. Most have achieved glory throug Continue Reading...
Although this is time-consuming and costly, it generally has high employee involvement and creditability, the strongest impact on behavior and performance and a positive influence on communication and goal sharing. Yet others believe that technology Continue Reading...
I would want to be evaluated through a form that would reveal whether or not I was conducting my assigned duties. Because of its specific nature, figure 11-3 would not only allow the evaluating manager to make an informed representation of my work, Continue Reading...
Together these metrics will help the firm understand where the project stands and how has it really impacted the performance of both the firm as a whole and the employees as part of its system. The firm is a major manufacturer of cosmetic products. Continue Reading...
The other major advantage of the use of a pilot group for conducting evaluations and 360 degree feedback survey is it enables pilot participants to act as champions who promote the process in the rest of the organization.
Using Rater Groups:
When Continue Reading...
Coaching management styles work best for Generation Xers, complete with prompt feedback and rewards for results (Eisner, 2005). They use a team of people to support their own personal individual efforts and bring a talent for problem-solving to the Continue Reading...
It transpired that this referred to my ability to use communications technology effectively and to the best of my ability. Besides many positive points about my working performance it was pointed out to me that I was not making adequate use of the i Continue Reading...
Work First Family Assistance Program
Welfare states are recognized by their efforts to help the citizens in leading a better life. Such states also help citizens rise to the point where they are able to lead a stable financial life. There are many p Continue Reading...
Work-Life Balance
The objective of this research is to examine how business managers should deal with the work-life balance issues of their employees. This will be accomplished by conducting a review of the literature in this area of study and will Continue Reading...
These performance appraisals are usually given to employees by managers. Such appraisals occur once or twice per year, depending upon the industry and the position of the employee. In some cases, performance appraisals are carried out by colleagues. Continue Reading...
According to Nolan (2010), the right incentive program can help with this process.
Nolan (2010) reports that a motivated and goal-oriented staff is essential to any optometric practice, since staff / patient interaction accounts for about 70% of th Continue Reading...
Additionally, those who were in the test group also scored, on average 20% higher on the test when it was graded by the researcher. Though the case study was based on an abnormal psychology case the questions are associated with content (i.e. readin Continue Reading...
" Often, conflicts arise when the individual wants two conflicting things: for example, I have occasionally wanted a long-term committed relationship at the same time as I have wanted to date different people. Avoidance-avoidance conflict is almost t Continue Reading...
Motivation
I find that what motivates me most are intrinsic and extrinsic types of motivation. Extrinsic types of motivation include things like praise and simple communications of appreciation for a job well done. They also include things like bonus Continue Reading...
Hence, conflicts are generated only by misunderstanding or mischief (Edwards, 2003). Although unitarism have been proven to represent old-fashioned and unrealistic ideas, many managers nowadays follow this approach. They believe in a harmony of inte Continue Reading...
Wood indicates that "everyone has different motivations and aspirations that they wish to achieve in their life. Work-life balance is about adjustments that can be made to working patterns to enable people to combine work with the other facets of th Continue Reading...
In that regard, employee motivation in the vocational environment of lending component of financial institutions emphasizes commissions and bonuses which are most consistent with the Vroom/Skinner concept of vocational motivation. In the past, manag Continue Reading...