Motivation Flashcards
Why is have employees motivated a good thing
Productivity
Lower labour turnover
Better quality products
Leadership styles, examples and their meanings
Leadership style - Different approaches to dealing with employees and making decisions when in authority
Autocratic - when the manager expects to be in charge of the business and the decision making
Democratic - when other employees are involved in the decision making process
Lassiter farriez - makes broad objectives for the business and lets the employees do most of the decision making
Advantages autocratic
Decisions made quicker
Clear instructions
More experience
Disadvantages autocratic
Less motivation
Ideas are not considered
Advantages democratic
Highly motivated
Employees are more accepting of change
Creative thinking
Disadvantages democratic
Longer decision making
Arguments
Advantages laissez fairies
Motivated by the responsibilities
Allows innovative thinking
Disadvantages laissez fairies
Poor performance/inexperienced decisions
More work
May feel directionless/I dont know what to do
Financial methods motivation, examples and their meanings
Salary - the pay yearly
Commission - a payment relating to the amount of sales made
Profit sharing - where a proportion of the company’s profit is paid out
Fringe benefits - other benefits such as a company car
Bonuses - a sum of money given if the worker has done well
Time rate - the amount paid to a worker for one hour
Piece rate - the amount paid for each unit of output
Non financial methods, examples and their meanings
Job rotations - workers swap to do different jobs in a production line
Autonomy/teamworking - working in groups and are responsible for a particular part of the assembly
Workers can decide as a group who does what tasks
Job enrichment - adding more tasks that require more skill so they take on more responsibility (may require training)
Training - the process of improving a workers skill, worker may feel a sense of achievement
Opportunities of promotion- the advancement of an employee in an organisation, may feel a sense of achievement and get more
Challenging work
Maslows hierarchy
Psychological needs, food/Shelter
Safety needs, job security
Love and belonging (social needs), work colleagues support
Self esteem, being recognised by doing a good job
Self actualisation, being promoted given more responsibility
Herzeberg motivational theory
Hygiene factor
- decreases if you dont have it but doesn’t increase motivation
Eg; health and safety
Motivating factors
- opportunities
- financial
Taylors motivational theory
Scientific theory that people are only motivated by money, piece rates
However not everyone is motivated by money
What is job satisfaction
The enjoyment derived from feeling that you have done a good job
