Chapter 6 (Motivating Workers) - 06.58.00
Chapter 6 (Motivating Workers) - 06.58.00
Chapter 6 (Motivating Workers) - 06.58.00
STUDIES 0450
UNIT 2:
PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
1. The reason why people work, and the benefits of well-motivated workforce
Jo enrichment Involves looking at jobs and adding tasks that require more skill and/or responsibility
Team working Involves using groups of employees and allocating specific tasks and responsibilities to them
Training The process of improving an employee’s skills
Promotion The advancement of an employee in an organisation, for example, to a higher job/managerial level
6.1: Importance of well-motivated workforce
Reasons why ppl work:
• Money MOTIVATION: The feeling that makes
• Security
• Affiliation (Social needs) employees want to work hard and effectively in
• Self-importance (esteem) a biz.
• Job satisfaction (Maslow Hierarchy of Needs)
increased output
higher profits
Unhappy workers do not work effectively
low output
lower/NO profits
MONEY
To pay for necessities and some
luxury
SECURITY
A sense of security (ie: knowing
WHY that your job and pay are safe – you
are not likely to lose your job)
WORK???
SOCIAL NEEDS (affiliation)
Feeling part of a
group/organization, meeting
ppl, making friends at wrk
JOB SATISFACTION
Enjoyment is derived from feeling
ESTEEM NEEDS that you have done a good job
(self-importance)
Feeling important -- feeling that
the job you do is important
6.2: Key Motivational Theories
F.W. Taylor
(Scientific Management
Theory – aka: The Theory of
KEY
Economic Man)
MOTIVATIONAL
Maslow Hierarchy THEORIES
of Needs
Aims to REDUCE INEFFECIENCY in the workplc by finding the quickest method of performing each
tasks & then training all workers to use this method.
All individuals are motivated by personal gains (ie: if workers are paid well, they will work more effectively)
Taylor’s theory mainly focused on FACTORY WORKERS
KEY
MOTIVATIONAL
THEORIES Two Factor Theory – Fredrick
Herzberg
Achieving your full potential, feeling that you have done a good job
Self-
(fulfilled by being promoted & being given more responsibility)
Actualisatio
n
Esteem Needs Having status & recognition (fulfilled by being recognised for good
work)
Promotion
Wages (payment for work, Financial Rewards/Motivators: Enhanced working environment
usually weekly) • Company car Job Rotation (increasing variety in
Time Rate (payment per hour) • Discounts for company the workplace by allowing workers to
Piece Rate (where workers are products switch form one task to another)
paid deepening on the quantity • Health care Job Enlargement
of products made)– BONUS • Children’s school fees paid (increasing/widening tasks to increase
system if workers hit targets for variety of workers)
Salaries (payment for work, • Housing loans Job Enrichment (organising work so
usually monthly) • Free trips abroad (Holiday) that workers are encourages to use
their full abilities)
BONUS
An addition amount of payment
COMMISSION
above basis pay as reward for
Payment relating to the
good work
number of sales made
METHODS
OF SALARIES
PAYMENT Payment for work, usually paid
WAGES monthly
A payment for work,
usually paid weekly
PROFIT SHARING
A system whereby a proportion of the
Price rate Time rate company’s profit is paid out to
An amount paid for The amount paid to an employees
each unit of output employee for one hour of wrk
Chapter overview: Chance to use creativity
• Prepare the possible limitations of each of the payment methods (both financial &
non-financial) in table format
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