Mgt 311 Week 3: Motivation Action Plan

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University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees, based on their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. Team Member | Performance Rating | Summary of Assessments | Motivational Strategy and Action Plan | Relevant Theory | Pam | 4.05 | Pam has indicated through self-assessments to be a high achiever with a need for affiliation. | Implementation of a goal-setting strategy that uses reward as a reinforcement to keep employee focused. | Goal-setting strategies have shown to increase performance for high achievers by setting achievable although difficult goals. | Beatrice | 3.5 | Beatrice has shown to be average with a need for familiar things. She is more conventional. She is emotionally stable. | Reinforcing the behavior she already exudes and not over-bearing her with new and complicated things | Reinforcement theory is based on behavior. It is not a theory of motivation, but is exactly what someone who lacks imagination needs. | Adam | 3.6 | Adam has shown that he is a team player and is willing to go above and beyond at work, however in order to use his full potential he needs to be able to find his time to shine within a group. | Adam already seems to use the self-determination strategy, however we at Riordan Manufacturing feel that in order for Adam to be more successful, and if he is serious about management, he should look into the goal-setting strategy. | Self-determination theory is based on internal satisfaction rather than the external satisfaction (i.e. pay raises, bonuses,

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