Improving Organizational Performance April 29, 2013 Psy 428 Professor Catherine Floyd-Jennings Improving Organizational Performance Job satisfaction and productive work performance are essential factors in an organization. Ensuring that employees are satisfied and capable of exhibiting quality work performance can be challenging. This report will explore the four major phases of the simulation and the solutions recommended for improving work performance. I will discuss the way motivational theories can increase productivity and ways to reduce stress in the workplace in relation to the simulation. I will also examine how human behavior, cognition and affect can enhance relationships within an organization.
The review was signed by my manager and me, at which I was given a carbon copy of as well. The strengths of the evaluation process help determine the actual way employees perform their duties, against the way they are expected to perform their duties. This way, they understand the importance, and familiarity of what is expected in their job duties. Therefore, the employee will work harder to achieve his/her expectations. This helps the employee to become motivated and enthusiastic and it progresses the development of the company as well.
Affecting Change Paper Jenea M. Smith LDR 531 March 21, 2011 John Thompson Affecting Change Paper Leadership can be defined as the ability to encourage and persuade others to work towards achieving a goal. Leaders are individuals who are concerned with doing the right thing, and managers are individuals who are concerned with doing things right. Leaders of companies and organizations are often faced with challenges of motivating employees to adjust to cultural changes and organizational structural. In large companies or organizations, the efficiency of managers depends on the influence they have over their subordinates, as well as their peers and superiors. Smith and Falmouth is a mid-size tele-shopping and mail order network
We have learned in the past that when you increase responsibilities by challenging people with new projects will improve their engagement in the workplace. After assessing the three employees valuations, we were able to facilitate a new way of imbedding our company’s overall expectations and objectives. We learned all three employees possessed different characteristics, behaviors, and needs. Understanding their needs is critical part of keeping them. (Stahl, J.
Riordan Strategic Plan Team C MGT/498 November 20, 2013 Instructor Riordan Strategic Plan Strategic planning is necessary for a company’s growth and success. Businesses clearly must define company goals and conduct extensive research to get a grasp of industry trends, which allows them to take advantage of available business opportunities. They can achieve this by carefully analyzing a particular business industry, and an honest assessment of their company's strengths and weaknesses in meeting the needs of the industry. The strategic plan will allow Riordan Manufacturing to focus on a particular niche in the marketplace, which makes sales, advertising, and customer management more effective. The plan allows
Decision in Paradise Decision in Paradise Part Three MGT/350 Janice Johnson February 8, 2011 Kurt Sikler Decision in Paradise Reflecting back to Decision in Paradise part one and two, exposed, discover the issue, describing criteria, targets and reasons, estimating the consequences of the dilemmas. According to the first and second phase of this estimation, there will be several proposals that National Health care can use to continue to accelerate in its development to the island of Kava. However, describing a point of view and plan for the implementation for reconstruction of National Health care to establish a greater presence in Kava by understanding the factors affecting decision
Workplace Motivation Stephen Hahne PSY 320 01/22/2014 Christine Page Workplace Motivation Retail companies implement different strategies to motivate their employees. These strategies are intended to improve employee performance, well-being, and overall job satisfaction. In turn, the company hopes to reduce employee turnover, provide better customer support, and increase employee loyalty. This paper will examine how various motivational strategies affect productivity in the workplace. It will include an explanation of the organization's efforts to improve performance, employees' resistance to increasing productivity, and management's philosophy of motivation and its practices.
While conducting the meeting, management should communicate clearly and effectively to ensure that all staff is on one accord. Communication is the process of understanding and having meaning (Du Pre, 2005) and it is also the process of relaying information between people by the use of words, letters, symbols, or body language (Sallee & Forrest, 2005).When implementing change within an organization it is also the manager’s responsibility to know what their employees’ strengths and weaknesses are, to find out what will be required to get specific employees to perform, and to understand how to capitalize on the ways those employees learn as an alternative method of encouraging and motivating them (Buckingham,
President Obama’s "Health Care Bill" The new health care bill, will it saves all Americans as intended by the President or does the opposite. That’s seems to be the hot topic. This paper will analyze and attempt to associates or predicts possible impacts and outcomes of the bill on the economy, health insurance, the health insurance industry, Wall Street, and or the U.S. population in general, or I as an individual. To answer the above questions, we’ll explore some possible outcomes or impacts of Obama-care. But, lets first analyze the bill, in order to provide possible impacts on the above situation,.
Workplace Motivation Jennifer Byron PSY/320: Human Motivation October 24, 2011 Facilitator: Dr. Paul Cantz Workplace Motivation How do motivational strategies affect productivity in the workplace? What efforts does the organization make to improve performance and lower employee resistance to increased productivity? What are management’s philosophy of motivation and practices? The following paper will identify and analyze the implications of applying two motivational theories, as discovered through the Motivation Concepts table completed in week one, not currently in practice at D&B. The paper will also consider how the chosen motivational theories would impact both management and employees.