Motivational Program Proposal PSY 201 June 25, 2013 Facilitator: Jennifer Amond Motivational Program Proposal As an owner of a manufacturing company I noted that the attitude of my employees were not as I expected after taking a climate survey. I noted that the moral of my employee were at an all-time low; I resolved that something had to be done if I wanted productivity level to increase in my department. My people needed a moral boost, and I had to do something fast; the life my company is depending on it. Therefore, I developed a motivation plan to restore the moral of my employees. My motivational proposal plan will be based on intrinsic motivation.
Running Head: SOURCES OF MOTIVATION PAPER Sources of Motivation Paper PSY 355 date University of Phoenix Sources of Motivation Paper When defining motivation, there are several definitions. Every person may have their own meaning of what motivation means to them. Motivation can be described as a trait that one needs in order to achieve something in life. There are many things that prompt individuals to behave in certain ways. There are also many different theories that revolve around how and why a person is motivated to behave in such ways.
He uses logos to point out our moral responsibility to make sure workers receive fair compensation and sanitary working conditions. He uses pathos when describing unsanitary conditions, child labor, and unfair worker compensation. He states his thesis in the fifth paragraph after he describes the poor working conditions created by corporations whose sole interest is increasing profits. He organizes his argument by first describing the consumers and then describing sweatshops. The main argument against increasing the wages of these workers is that it will have a negative impact on the developing world because workers will lose their jobs.
Along with these dreadful wages and hours there were poor working conditions. The working conditions were the main cause for the strikes. There were improvements being made throughout the time period. “The working people find that improvements are constantly being made, and unless a strike, the improvements will all go to the employer…” (Doc I). As stated, without the laborers performing a strike the improvements would just benefit the employers and the employees had to work for every little thing they got.
Ethical considerations must be given by managers as to how the strategic plan will influence the stakeholders. The business organization’s management follows the mainstream behaviors of the society to justify their decisions on choosing their role as being ethically and socially responsible business. Many businesses in a depressed economy have to lay off their employees and close plants, these decisions are difficult to carry out because socially, it will cause hardships for employees or the community. A good example of being ethical and socially responsible business when encountering this situation is when Cisco Systems decided to lay off 6,000 full-time employees, that it acted ethically in providing a unique severance package where these employees it who agreed to work for a local nonprofit organization for a year would receive one-third of their salaries plus benefits and stock options and be the first to be rehired (Wheelen & Hunger, 2010). When investors or shareholders are demanding the business to produce profit, managers must consider how to devise steps for transparency in their strategic plans to report factual business dealings.
Unions have helped bridge the pay gap between male and female teachers, black and whites teachers, etc. I am a firm believer that teachers are under paid, but I also think teachers pay should be based on their effectiveness and ineffective teachers need to be fired or reeducated themselves, possibly put on a probationary status. But in some states, after two years of mediocre service, a teacher is branded as “tenured” and they have a job for life. This leads to problems of absenteeism, poor work ethic, failing America’s future economy, etc., because these teachers are protected by the
The integral part of the problem was also identified in poor differentiation of “non-sell” and “selling” time. The company also used sales per hour ratio as the leading factor in performance evaluation and work compensation. This performance indicator was not properly balanced by other factors, such as customer satisfaction, in actual work compensation. My suggestions for designing a motivation program for Nordstrom would include a system to reward the employees for the work they do and not hurt them for time spent in meetings and shelving. They should set up a system that encourages the employees to “go the extra mile” without penalizing them on their hours.
Priestley’s use of the word ‘body’ shows that we are all connected and linked. Everyone needs to work together. The Inspector wants to teach the Birlings how to be more responsible and that money and class is not going to make you a better person and should change their attitudes towards the working class after he had spoken to them to change. In 1945 he wanted people to be equal and not be separated by rigid class or gender and boundaries for people to earn a more valued place in society. Priestley deliberately set his play in 1912 because the date represented an era when all was very different from the time he was writing.
Motivation as a Performance Enhancer Rose Perri November 29, 2013 MSA 601 Dr. Berkshire Managers today have the difficult responsibility of producing favorable outcomes with a shrinking workforce. The economic downturn our country has seen in the past years has had a significant impact on how we conduct business today. I have personally witnessed and experienced the decreasing workforce in healthcare today. The expectation to produce better patient outcomes, superior patient satisfaction, and a satisfied workforce and remain financially solvent in a highly regulated industry is a challenging mission. Looking at motivation as a theoretical framework to promote a positive workforce can assist businesses in meeting the challenges faced today.
Hypothesis 7: Enterprises do not agree with respect to the factors acting as barrier to the SCM implementation. In order to pinpoint the obstacles and bottlenecks, and to achieve superior performance, organizations embrace benchmarking as a strategic tool (Rigby, 2013). Shirley (1996) defined benchmarking as a continuous and systematic process in which an organization’s processes or practices are compared with its rivals having a better position in the marketplace, to discover the best way to perform a particular activity or process. Benchmarking imparts better comprehension of the current practices of the organization and allows the firms to re-engineer their business processes, so that they can attain best-in-class performance or beyond