Motivation And Management Styles Flashcards
(9 cards)
What is motivation? Why do businesses want to motivate their staff?
Motivation is the act of working for the joy of working itself
Businesses want to motivate their staff as it increases productivity and improves relations in the work place. They also make business environments nicer as people communicate more and nicer. It can also increase staff retention
What are the financial and non financial methods of motivation?
Financial: bonus, commission, pay rise, staff discount, share option
Non financial: fringe benefits, sabbaticals, praise, promotion, job rotation, job enrichment, job enlargement, title
How does staff training and management styles influence motivation?
Staff training and management styles could influence motivation as the styles of training and management could change the businesses way of motivation. Eg a company who had a management style of being democratic would have a motivation technique of promotion (for decision) as there decision would still be the same of the other employees,
What does retention mean?
What motivational techniques are good for retention?
Why do businesses want to retain staff?
Retention is a company holding onto staff and keeping people working for them.
Promotion, pay rise, sabbaticals, job enrichment are all good motivational techniques to retain staff.
Businesses want to retain staff as it’s cheaper, they already know the business,have to acquire new staff, understand company
What is a leader?
What are qualities of good leaders?
A leader is a person who leads a company forward and to better things.
A leader must be decide objectives,provide expertise,support staff,motivational,delegate work fairly,lead by example and have good control.
When is each type of management style relevant for a particular job?
Autocratic management is good for jobs that need discipline to do eg the army or doctors.
Democratic management is good for jobs that effect lots of people socially such as a railway company
A paternalistic management is good for jobs that deal with lots of customers or very tough such as innovative companies eg apple who struggle with making new products.
What are the 3 management styles?
Autocratic - a leader decides all decision by himself with no input from other people
Democratic - a leader who makes decisions from his views and others collectively
Paternalistic - a leader who values each staff and treats them in a fatherly way, showing support wherever.
Positives and negatives of the management styles?
Autocratic \+ clear direction \+ all control / deal with conflict - staff feel undervalued - low staff retention Democratic \+ staff feel valued and trusted \+ company integrated into society - long time for a decision - can’t please everyone Paternalistic \+ welcome people to a business \+ develops staff - may not work with some staff - increasing dependancy on managers
How can management styles have an effect on motivation?
Management styles can either increase the staff motivation or it can negatively impact staff to feel undervalued and not trusted. It would increase motivation as the staff would feel trusted and vital for success. But it could make staff feel like a cog in a huge system.
