...1 Individual Assignment Motivation Concepts Table and Analysis PSY 320 Week 2 DQs PSY 320 Week 2 Individual Assignment Workplace Motivation Paper PSY 320 Week 3 DQs PSY 320 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Company Motivational Profile Draft PSY 320 Week 4 DQs PSY 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Job Redesign and Workplace Rewards Assessment PSY 320 Week 5 DQs PSY 320 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Company Motivational Profile Paper and Presentation ------------------------------------------------------------------- PSY 320 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com PSY 320 Week 1 DQs PSY 320 Week 1 Individual Assignment Motivation Concepts Table and Analysis PSY 320 Week 2 DQs PSY 320 Week 2 Individual Assignment Workplace Motivation Paper PSY 320 Week 3 DQs PSY 320 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Company Motivational Profile Draft PSY 320 Week 4 DQs PSY 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Job Redesign and Workplace Rewards Assessment PSY 320 Week 5 DQs PSY 320 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Company Motivational Profile Paper and Presentation ------------------------------------------------------------------- PSY 320 Week 1 DQs For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com How do the various theories of motivation predict behavior in organizations? What is the difference between motivation and manipulation? Why must today's managers understand and utilize various motivational strategies? If highly motivated employees...
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...Motivational Concepts Table Analysis January 7, 2013 Phillip A. Butler University of Phoenix PSY / 320 The subject of motivational concepts, although interesting could be viewed as highly complex as well. The study of motivation and emotion is largely a behavioral science, which suggests that answers to motivational questions require objective, data based empirical evidence gained from well conducted and researched peer review findings. Motivational concepts used need to be chosen carefully and continually evaluated against new finding to avoid being tossed aside. As useful concepts need to be improved there always new ones to be discovered. However, in order to move forward in this study of motivational concepts, which are largely derived from expert theories, we need to understand what they are. Reeves; Understanding Motivation & Emotions 2009 As defined in the text: “A theory is an intellectual framework that can be used to identify and explain the relationships that exist among naturally occurring observable phenomena”. Fiske 2004; Reeves; Understanding Motivation & Emotions 2009. Motivational researchers use theories to assist in the understanding in complex phenomena they study. To conduct this analysis a motivational concept table is used that depicts the name of the theory used, the major theorist of that category, the time period that it was created in, and any key theory concepts by that theorist. There are three “grand theories” described in the...
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...University of Phoenix Material Motivation Concepts Table Use the following table to complete the Motivation Concept Table assignment for Week One. You are encouraged to modify table formatting to suit your needs. Please consult with course instructor for additional assignment specifications. The completed table will serve as a resource for the remainder of the course. | | |Time Period Created | | |Theory Name |Major Theorist(s) | |Key Theory Concepts | |Will: |Descartes |1637 |Will motivates all actions. | | | | | | | | | |Will is an initiated and directed action. | | |Ruckmick |1936 |Striving to create impulses to act. Ruckmick | | | | |identified striving as an act of will in 1936.| | | | |The ability to resist self-denial or | | | ...
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...contact me because I travel a great deal. In the extremely rare event that phone contact must occur, the best way is to schedule an appointment in advance. The University discourages the use of email during class times, preferring us to use the Individual folders. For emergencies, when you are not able to gain access to messages on the Online Learning System (OLS), please send a message to my personal email address. General Course Description This course seeks to synthesize the many theories of human motivation with the practical application of motivating employees. To this end, the course will examine historical theories as well as recent developments in the field of motivation and their relationship to management practices. The primary concepts of goals, quality of work, and rewards will be examined and applied to the workplace. It is important to write well. We will be using APA format for all written...
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...Motivational Methods Jennifer Dobelstien Phoenix of Arizona In my organization, the department has to be downsized because it is too large. With the new changes that are going to take place; some motivational techniques need to be implemented to help with the new changes. Understanding different methods will ensure that our organization has the top notch of motivational skills needed to get the job done and everything running smoothly. As the manager of this organization, it is my responsibility to figure out which three motivational methods would work best for the company and figure out what theoretical concepts support the points that I am going to make through my readings. There are many motivational methods to use on employees in a workplace but I am going to mention about three good ones that I would use in an organization that is implementing change. As a manager, they should not use the same motivational techniques repeatedly on the same person. Always using different methods every time is more of a motivational challenge than using the same ones. A manager should get to know their employees and figure out which employees like what and what kind of position the employee is in first off before a manager starts using methods on an employee. “Money is a great motivator, but unfortunately there are but so many raises a manager can offer an employee.” (Meeks, 1999-2012). The three motivational methods I would use is setting a good example...
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...be a potential identification for students to fail from their class activities. Educators should help the students to value learning skills. Students should have to be more responsible on managing their own learning to become more strategic and productive learners. They can be more aware only of the strong and weak points in their self-regulations can have a constructive feedback after their self evaluations. The descriptive survey was the main method utilized in this study. The substantial numbers of samples are purposively selected to employ the processes of collecting the data. As manifested by the self evaluation of 2nd year nursing students, among the six self regulatory skills five of them namely : metacognition, self concept, self monitoring, strategy formation and volition control are practiced by the respondents at majority of the time, however it was found that metacognition was seen above these five skills with 3.14 factor average. The investigation also revealed that as regard to motivation the respondents’ practiced this attitude generally at great extent even though the factor average is 1.89 on the reason that the inventory statements are stated in its negative manner. CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION Rationale of the Study Self-regulation is an important topic in the study of social cognition, which is distinguished from non-social cognition by its focus on the interaction between social and cognitive...
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...CHAPTER 4 Consumer Motivation LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter students should be able to: 1. Understand the types of human needs and motives and the meaning of goals. 2. Understand the dynamics of motivation, arousal of needs, setting of goals, and interrelationship between needs and goals. 3. Learn about several systems of needs developed by researchers. 4. Understand how human motives are studied and measured. CHAPTER SUMMARY Motivation is the driving force within individuals that impels them to action. This driving force is produced by a state of uncomfortable tension, which exists as the result of an unsatisfied need. All individuals have needs, wants, and desires. The individual’s subconscious drive to reduce need-induced tensions results in behavior that he or she anticipates will satisfy needs and thus bring about a more comfortable internal state. Motivation can be either positive or negative. Innate needs—those an individual is born with—are physiological (biogenic) in nature; they include all the factors required to sustain physical life (e.g., food, water, clothing, shelter, sex, and physical safety). Acquired needs—those an individual develops after birth—are primarily psychological (psychogenic); they include love, acceptance, esteem, and self-fulfillment. All behavior is goal oriented. Goals are the sought-after results of motivated behavior. The form or direction that behavior takes—the goal that is selected—is a result...
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...Running Head: MOTIVATION CONCEPTS ANALYSIS Motivation Concepts Analysis Name Human Motivation PSY 320 Faculty Date Introduction on motivational concepts Motivation is comprised of at least 3 components: direction, effort and persistence. Additional factors to motivation are intrinsic: “self generated factors such as responsibility, skills and abilities, interest, opportunities for career advancement and extrinsic: things that motivate an individual such as rewards, promotional opportunities or punishment.” (The Manager, 2007) According to the text, Understanding Motivation and Emotion by Reeve, “motivation is the study of the processes that provide behavior with energy and direction.” (Reeve, 2001) Describe how the theory of intrinsic motivation would and would not be applicable if applied to two or more workplace situations drawn from personal experience Some types of intrinsic motivation for employees are: challenge, interest, learning, meaning, purpose and creative flow. Intrinsic motivation is self generated and can be more effective when an individual has a general interest in something that has appeal to the individual. Intrinsic motivation requires a manager to engage an individual in a task and inform them of the benefits and impact on the employee. About two years ago our company was rolling out a third party record keeping platform. This required testing of our existing database systems for compatibility. My manager wanted me to be a subject matter...
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...focuses on empowering and enabling them to become employees capable of fulfilling their aspirations and actualizing their potential. This shift in the way human resources are treated has come about due to the prevailing notion that human resources are sources of competitive advantage and not merely employees fulfilling their job responsibilities. The point here is that the current paradigm in HRD treats employees as value creators and assets based on the RBV or the Resource Based View of the firm that has emerged in the SHRM (Strategic Human Resource Management) field.The field of HRD spans several functions across the organization starting with employee recruitment and training, appraisals and payroll and extending to the recreational and motivational aspects of employee development. | Indeed, one reason for the emergence of the RBV or the SHRM paradigm is that with the advent of the service sector and the greater proportion of companies in the service sector, employees are not merely a factor of production like land, labor and capital but in fact, they are sources of competitive advantage. This is characterized by many CEO’s calling employees their chief assets and valuing their contribution accordingly. As a matter of fact, many IT and Financial Services companies routinely refer to employees as the value creators and value enhancers rather than just resources doing their job. What this has meant is that the field of HRD has become prominent and important for organizations and has...
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...Global Advanced Research Journal of Management and Business Studies Vol. 1(4) pp. 126-133, May, 2012 Available online http://garj.org/garjmbs/index.htm Copyright © 2012 Global Advanced Research Journals Full Length Research Paper Impact of Motivation on the working performance of employees- A case study of Pakistan. Akbar Ali1, Maira Abrar2 , Jahanzaib Haider 1 Bahaudin Zakariya University, Multan, Sub-Campus, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. Tel: 92-331-7304678, 2 3 Bahaudin Zakariya University, Multan, Sub-Campus, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. Bahaudin Zakariya University, Multan, Sub-Campus, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. Tel: 92-331-3312626, Accepted 10 April, 2012 Motives are key to human behavior. It plays an important role in performance and other activities and as such the manager should know what motivation is and how subordinates can are motivated towards performance. This study investigates the role of motivation on employees’ performance as the history of explaining human or animal behavior is not new.” why did one do what one did “had been the subject of working even in the past, some human behavior was explained as an outcome of demos impedance and this explanation was unscientific. Efforts were also made to determine principles which could explain human behavior. McDougall emphasized that man’s social behavior can be explained in terms of instincts which was later on criticized. Freud used “unconscious metal process” to explain behavior especially...
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...highest chocolate consumption in kg per head, like Ireland, Germany or Switzerland for example, chocolate is still a main topic. Like on the following graphic it is shown, Australia is settled in-between European countries and is even before America which is very unusual. When spoken about unhealthy food most of the people assume America would be at least in the top 5. (Graphic 2.1.) Cadbury is one of the biggest chocolate suppliers in New Zealand and Australia. But if you have a look at the international Companies all over the world on Table 2.1. Company Net Sales 2011 (US$ millions) Kraft Foods Inc (USA) 19,965 Mars Inc (USA) 16,2 Nestlé SA (Switzerland) 12,808 Ferrero Group (Italy) 9,612 Hershey Foods Corp (USA) 6,112 Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (Switzerland) 2,796 August Storck KG (Germany) 2,205 Yildiz Holding (Turkey) 2,095 Meiji Co (Japan) 1,791 Arcor Group (Argentina) 1,716 (Table 2.1. Candy Industry, January 2012)...
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...PUBLICATIONS 110 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Thirunavukkarasu Velnampy Retrieved on: 09 September 2015 Factors Influencing Motivation: An empirical Study of Sri Lankan Organisations Dr.T.Velnampy Senior Lecturer, Dept of Commerce, Faculty of Mg Studies & Commerce, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Email: tvnampy@yahoo.co.in Abstract Motivating employees is a way to make them to give their best to the organization for the achievement of organizational goals. But choosing the strategy for motivation may differ from time to time and organization to organization, because it is a psychological phenomenon and it is depending on the preference of employees. Therefore the present study is made to find out the motivational factors with the samples of 676 respondents from 55 public and private sector organizations in Sri Lanka. The finding of the study is that the perceived level of motivation of the employees in both the sectors is high. As the factors influencing motivation, wages and salaries, physical working conditions, job descriptions, dependency, friendly working atmosphere, interpersonal relationships, prestige and work assignment, incentives and bonus, work facilities, security, power, challenging and advancement and personal growth are most important factors. Moreover, lower level employees in both the sectors give more important to lower level needs while middle and higher level employees emphasize higher level needs. Keywords: Motivation...
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...MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES IN THE ORGANIZATION Prepared for Professor Dan Riding Florida Institute of Technology Prepared by Student Elzbieta Kociolek Florida Institute of Technology February 19, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….3 Understanding the concept of motivation………………………………………………4 Assessing your approach to employee motivation 5 Identifying manager's role in motivation process6 Applying motivational techniques7 Use appropriate methods of reinforcement.7 Provide people with flexibility and choice…………………………………………….8 Encourage employees to set their own goals and objectives………………………8 Have a flexible management style…………………………………………………….8 Provide immediate and relevant feedback that will help employees improve their performance in the future……………………………………………………………....8 Establish a climate of trust and open communication……………………………….9 Demonstrate your own motivation through behavior and attitude…………………9 Conclusions and Recommendations………………………………………………………10 References……………………………………………………………………………………11 INTRODUCTION Motivation is defined as the willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual needs. Motivation is necessary element and the most crucial aspect in achieving goals in the organization. When people get motivated, they will put more effort and try harder on what they doing to achieve better goals...
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...See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235265707 Effects of mobile gaming patterns on learning outcomes: A literature review ARTICLE in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING · DECEMBER 2012 DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2012.051817 CITATIONS READS 7 995 3 AUTHORS: Birgit Schmitz Roland Klemke Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, Bonn Open Universiteit Nederland 23 PUBLICATIONS 41 CITATIONS 62 PUBLICATIONS 362 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Marcus Specht Open Universiteit Nederland 306 PUBLICATIONS 2,579 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately. Available from: Birgit Schmitz Retrieved on: 15 February 2016 Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. X, No. Y, XXXX Effects of mobile gaming patterns on learning outcomes: a literature review Birgit Schmitz*, Roland Klemke and Marcus Specht Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open University of The Netherlands, P.O. Box 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, Valkenburgerweg 177, Heerlen, The Netherlands Email: birgit.schmitz@ou.nl Email: roland.klemke@ou.nl Email: marcus.specht@ou.nl *Corresponding author Abstract: Within the past decade, a growing number of educational scientists have started to recognise the multifaceted potential that mobile learning games have as...
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...Motivation and Reward Systems Motivation and reward systems are two very important concepts in an organization that managers should understand. Employees that are positively motivated will have higher levels of productivity; whereas employees with lower levels of motivation and job satisfaction may produce less. “Motivation can be achieved through various means, including equality, positive reinforcement, discipline and punishment among others” (Smith, 2010). Managers should be aware of their employees’ needs in order to fulfill them. There are some motivational theories that can help managers identify needs and how to motivate their employees effectively. Some of these motivational theories are based on employee drives, others are based on employee needs, and others are based on behavior. However, the major source of motivation is reward systems. Employees can be rewarded in many ways; some include incentives that are linked with performance, wage incentives, profit sharing, gain sharing, and skill-base pay. Work motivation is defined by Newstrom (2011) as “the result of a set of internal and external forces that cause an employee to choose an appropriate course of action and engage in certain behaviors.” The motivation and the behavior are expected to be positive and towards achieving organizational goals; managers should be interested in three elements of the behavior: the direction, level of effort, and persistence of the behavior (Newstrom, 2011). To make and maintain...
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