This document discusses various theories and approaches for motivating employees, including considering individual differences, matching people to jobs, setting goals, and linking rewards to performance. It outlines content theories like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, and McClelland's three needs theory. Process theories covered include expectancy theory, equity theory, reinforcement theory, and goal setting theory. The key takeaway is that managers should use both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to maximize employee performance.
3. 1.
RECOGNIZE
INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES
Employees are not
homogenous; they have
different needs, differ in terms
of attitudes, personality, and
other important individual
variables that affect the
employees’ level of motivation.
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4. 2.
MATCH
PEOPLE
TO JOBS
e.g high achievers should be
sought for a job of running a
business. Such jobs are most
attractive and motivating to
employees with higher growth.
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5. 3.
USE GOALS
Managers should ensure that
employees have hard specific
goals and feedback on how
well they’re doing in pursuit
of those goals.
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LINK
REWARDS TO
PERFORMANCE
Key rewards such us pay
increase and promotions
should be given to serve as
incentive to the employees to
attain their specific goals.
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9. 7.
CHECK THE
SYSTEM FOR
EQUITY
Employees should perceive that
rewards or outcomes are equal
to the inputs given. This simply
means that experience, ability,
effort, and other obvious inputs
should explain differences in pay,
responsibility, and other obvious
outcomes.
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DON’T IGNORE
MONEY
Allocation of performance-
based wage increase,
piecework bonuses, and other
pay incentives is important in
determining employee
motivation.
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Edwin Locke. Equity Theory and
Compensation Policy.
Personnel Administration
11. THINGS TO CONSIDER IN
MOTIVATION
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1. Most managers think that
money is the top motivator but it
is not.
• Studies have shown that praise
and recognition motivate
employees to put forth their
best efforts to perform at higher
levels.
2. In a study of potential
workforce motivators by Dr.
Gerald Graham, professor of
management at Wichita State
University , three of the top five
incentives ranked by employees
had no cost, even though they
were seldom done by
employees’ managers:
a) A personal thank you
b) A written thank you
c) Public praise
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3. The greatest impact in using
formal awards comes from their
symbolic value;
• Recognition value
• Emotional value
Formal awards lend credibility to
more spontaneous, informal
rewards used regularly by
management.
4. Recognizing performance will
result in more of that behavior
and that is also when it means the
most to employees.
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5. Managers do not tend to focus
on an employee motivation until
it lost.
Morale sinks, employees quit,
and then management scramble
to figure out ways to energize
and motivate employees.
At this point, regenerating poor
morale is much more difficult
than doing little things along way
to keep it high.
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17. CONTENT APPROACH
• This approach includes models of
motivation that address the question:
What motivates the behavior?
• This approach emphasizes the “what”
of the employee motivation.
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18. 1.
HIERARCHY OF
NEEDS THEORY
BY ABRAHAM MASLOW
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He hypothesized that people have
a complex set of five categories of
needs which he arranged in order
of primacy. He suggested that, as a
person satisfies each level of
needs, motivation shifts to
satisfying the next higher level of
needs.
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20. 2.
ERG MODEL
by Clay Alderfer
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This is a theory of human
motivation that focuses on three
groups of needs that form a
hierarchy
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22. 3.
THREE NEEDS
THEORY
by David McClelland
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This is theory proposed that there
are three major motives or needs
in work situations
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MOTIVATION
HYGIENE THEORY
by Frederick Herzberg
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This theory suggests that distinct
kinds of experience produce job
satisfaction (motivators) and job
dissatisfaction (hygiene factors)
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• This approach includes models of
motivation that emphasizes on how
and why people choose certain
behaviors in order to meet their
personal goals.
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1.
EXPECTANCY
THEORY
by Victor Vroom
This is based on the assumption
that people choose among
alternative behaviors because they
anticipate that a particular
behavior will lead to one or more
desired outcomes and that other
behaviors will lead to undesirable
outcomes.
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2.
EQUITY THEORY
by John Stacey Adams
This is based on the assumption
that a major factor in job
satisfaction is the individual’s
evaluation of the equity or fairness
of the reward received.
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3.
REINFORCEMENT
THEORY
by B.F. Skinner
This is theory is based on the “law
of effect”, the idea that the
behavior with positive
consequences tends to be
repeated, while behavior with
negative consequences tends not
to be repeated.
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Response
•Repeated or
not to be
Repeated
Consequences
• Rewards or
Punishments
Response
• Behavior
Stimulus
• Situation
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a. Do not reward all individuals equally.
b. Telling employees what they can do to receive reinforcement.
c. Telling what they are doing wrong.
d. Not punishing employees in front of others.
e. Being fair to all.
This theory can be applied by using positive
reinforcement to influence work behavior.
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4.
GOAL SETTING
THEORY
by Edwin Locke
This assumes that specific goals
increase performance, and difficult
goals, when accepted, result in
higher performance than easy
goals.
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Establishment
of standards
to be attained
Evaluation of
whether the
standards can
be achieved
Evaluation of
whether the
standards
match
personal goals
The standards
are accepted
• The goal is
thereby set
• Behavior
proceeds toward
the goal
37. Ability to perform is handled
primarily through the
organization’s selection and
training mechanisms.
The environmental context
includes such things as
equipment, machinery, materials,
information, and other support
factors.
What can be done to motivate
employees for these employees
to perform their job effectively
and efficiently.
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