Motivating employees

• Economie

Chapter 18

Section 18.2: Motivating Employees, Pages 423-428

Objectives

1. Explain how managers influence motivation

2. Predict ways to maximize employees performance

3. Discuss the importance of delegation

What motivates employees?

Theories of motivation

Theory of motivation by Douglas Mc Gregor

Theory by Federick Herzberg

Hygiene theory

Herzberg calls factors such as money, working conditions,and fair company policies hygiene factors. Hygiene factors do not improve situations, but keep them from getting worse.

Herzberg defined motivating factors as factors that

motivate employees, such as achievement, recognition, responsibility, advancement, growth, and the reward from doing the work itself.

What kinds of assumptions do managers make about employees?

Which factor works in the short run?

1. Hygiene
2. Theory Y
3. Theory Y
4. Motivating

Maximizing Employee Performance

Providing meaningful work

Allow scheduling Flexibility

Involve employees in decision making

Give recognition

Providing performance evaluation

Reward performance

Terms

Telecommuting

Family leave 

Flextime

Think ways your coaches, teachers, parents or employers motivate you to do your best.

What are the benefits of having motivated employees?

Situation

Suppose one of you play the role of a manager and others employees. The manager gives a job but does not give any authority or responsibility to the employees.

Secondly the manager gives a job to his employees but gives them authority and responsibility to do the job.

Analyze the two situations given.

Give the important points of the lesson.