Both SAS and Grenada Co-operative Bank use a combination of motivational theories to motivate their staff. SAS applies principles from both Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and Hertzberg’s theory. SAS like Co-op Bank provides a combination of monetary and monetary rewards. Employees of SAS view supporting facilities such as daycare and gym facilities as facilities that keep them close to their families. Linder Clover, Director of A&D of SAS remarked that she can take her daughter to lunch every day without having to encounter the inconvenience of leaving her job (Why SAS is the best place to work, 2010). The daycare is located on the premises of the company which allows parents the opportunity to bring their children to work and visit them during the day. Management and employees at SAS both agree that they are motivated to work. Employees at SAS openly admitted that they would not leave their job even if another company offers them a better paying one. This could be because the salary received plus the additional benefits that the company offers (daycare, gym, cafeteria among others) far outweighs any increase in salary they could ever receive. This is evidence of Herzberg’s’ theory. Employees are not motivated by hygiene factors therefore, their main concern isn’t simply an increase in salary. Although SAS provides many hygiene factors employees appreciate the fact that they are involved in decision making and that they are recognized. Further, employees at SAS benefit from
According to a 2017 job survey, in America only 24% of employees are very satisfied with their jobs. (Jared Lindzon). This means in America over half of the employees are less satisfied or unsatisfied with their jobs. However, in order to survive, these people must continue to work where the jobs are available. One author who addresses this problem, is Karen Olsson in her article “Up Against Wal-Mart”.
Individual’s attitude definitely makes or breaks how they feel about their jobs. In addition, the workers’ attitudes and need result from their reason for working. Most of the employees in Gig work simply because they want to remain busy or they knew what they like, enjoyed or had the addition qualifications for those jobs. However, Ehrenreich worked the minimum wage jobs because she needed to support herself, keep food on the table and a roof over her head.
The company I am currently working for is Belk, Inc located in Tupelo MS. Belk is a privately owned department store that has a total of 16 stores across the southern states. The 2.3 billion dollar company was recently bought out by Sycamore Partners out of NYC, but continued to keep Belk as the official company name. In the year and four months that I have spent working for Belk, I have experience many pros and cons that employees have encounter in the workplace when it comes to the following: personality and perception, attitudes and behavior, designing a motivating work environment, communication skills, and understanding organization culture. There are so many different people and personalities at Belk.
The dental hygienists who work part-time often job-hop way more than experienced hygienists. Yet, both full-time and part-time hygienists tend to work for 4-5 employers compared to a hygienist with years of experience who job-hop for 2 employers. It’s not a coincidence that the seasoned hygienists who have demonstrated commitment to their practice have the higher average salary. If a job offers $30,000 a year and if no raise is given for about forty years, over the course of time the amount of money earned will be 1.2 million dollars.
Motivation allows for an employee to work harder than he already is. Many employees tend to exhibit their ambition within careers which contain opportunities that grant the advancement to higher platforms. However, despite there being such a low amount of career advancement possibilities at McDonald’s, securing a job at the fast food restaurant did not prevent Marissa Nuñez from gaining and displaying motivation. Rather, obtaining this job sparked her desire to succeed from her first real day; she began her career with an idea to race her cousin, who was also a McDonald’s employee at the time; this race consisted of a goal which was to determine “who could get the most customers and who could fill the orders in fifty-nine seconds” (440). Although, this action was more trivial than not, it sparked Marissa Nuñez’ inspiration to strive without her even knowing.
When employees see they are valuable to the company and they are secure it gives them confidence and in return they give their loyalty to the
This instils a sense of fairness among the employees and keeps them happy. Work life balance: a. Family friendly policy- The parents (both mother and father) get two month long paid parental leave. During this the parents can travel with their child and the company pays for a child development teacher as a part of ‘travelling baby’ program. This helps them reducing absenteeism and helps the company retain workers, most importantly woman.
Organizational Strategy and Objectives The foundation of Wells Fargo’s strategy is its focus on customers. The company’s strategy tends to drive the choices they make and also enable them to prioritize its efforts, differential from peers, and build a lasting value for customers, employees, communities, and shareholders. The diversified business model tends to provide the company with the stability and the strength as it assures communities and customers that it exists to serve them and also the future generations. The objectives of the company are to be the leader in financial services in areas of team member engagement, customer services and advice, shareholder value, innovation, corporate citizenship, and risk management (Wells Fargo n.d).
Motivation at workplace There are two dimensions of motivation; internal and external. Internal motivation refers to personal interest in doing something and external motivation refers to be persuaded by someone’s activity. The characteristics of motives are identified as: individualistic, changing, may be unconscious, often inferred, and hierarchical (Reece, 2014). Most important fact to understand motivation is the theories. Many motivational theories have been developed over time to study human behavior at the workplace.
‘‘Taylor’s concept of motivation is to institute a system of inequitable pay for workers and a bonus system will create monetary incentives (Reference/web). There are many ways McDonald’s uses to encourage employee’s effectiveness at workplace that is by having programs such as ‘employee of the month’ (Reference website). Besides that, McDonald’s has established an incentive pay system and provide the employees opportunities to earn competitive total compensation when the performance meet goals and bonuses are given to top employees based on their individual and business performance(Reference
To this point, Mars Company seems to meet almost all the need categories, intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors. It is probably one of the reasons of why the organisation is among the world’s best places to work. However no everything is so good, there are still some slightly downsides and gaps to fulfil in regards of motivation and some others limitations in terms of the theories exposed. Maslow’s theory is also considered, especially for the bottom levels, the carrot and stick motivation approach.
Introduction Summary of the case: Motivation could be defined as factors that stimulate people to act well on a certain topic. Moreover, it is crucial to know what motivates whom, because every individual has certain factors that act to motivate them which differ from everyone else. Some employees could be extroverts so working on team projects or in groups could motivate them because they have the team spirit. On the other hand, some other employees would be motivated by the idea of change and making a difference. This case study is presenting Enterprise-rent-a car; while the main concern of the topic is motivation.
Higher Quality of Service or Product 3. Monetary Savings 4. Better Employee Retention Rates 5. Pleasant Work Environment Maslow`s Hierarchy
Apple Company. Is an American multinational firm that layout and manufactures shopper electronics and PC software products. Apple was founded on the first of April, 1976, at the hands of "Steve Jobs" and "Steve Wozniak" and "Ronald Wayne" for the sale of personal computers called "Apple. The company manages more than two hundred and fifty shop of retail stores in nine countries, and shop on the Internet sold by hardware and software products. The reason why I choose this organization is because it 's very successful and famous device everywhere in world.
It is an extrinsic motivation to influence the willingness of HCP to exert and maintain an effort towards attaining organizational goals (Mathauer & Imhoff, 2006). The HCP with low salaries are found de-motivated because their income is insufficient to meet their basic needs and their families (Henderson & Tulloch, 2008). The use of financial incentives such as high salaries, and performance payments could compensate HCP who works in rural areas because it was understaffed and creating additional work burdens for those who stay (Wurie, Samai, & Witter, 2016). Also, incentives should be given according to HCP’s life stage, such as age group and level of experience. It is because they have different job preferences that necessary to meet their needs (Honda & Vio, 2015).