JoAnn Hackos Comtech Services, Inc. www.comtech-serv.com © 2003 Comtech Services, Inc. One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? • Frederick Herzberg – • Harvard Business Review • January–February 1968 2 Most popular reprint in HBR history • Re-run in HBR in September–October 1987 • Re-run again in HBR in January 2003 3 Motivation by KITA • KITA = Kick in the pants (1968) • KITA = Kick in the ass (1987, 2003) 4 What is KITA? • Negative KITA • Motivation by punishment—
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Gathering Research Data Gathering research within the criminal justice field can take time in regards to how certain information must be obtained and measured. When conducting research concerning police officers and their jobs, obtain statistics based on job satisfaction or job hazards can require an approach while using different ways to do so. So far, the quantitative approach can be used, but the qualitative approach must be used to gain a clear answer to this type of research. As of now, based
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pay; benefits; job security Intrinsic Values – promotability, overtime, nature of work itself (do you fit the work itself?) Generational Differences – has a lot of implications in the workplace Trade-off effect for valuing extrinsic over intrinsic Moods: -Causes -events that are positive/negative (being hungry) -weather -Effects -affects your performance and the people around you performance Work attitude – collection of feelings, beliefs, and thoughts about the job or organization
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Assignment Two: How Personal Can Ethics Get? BUS 520 Abstract BMW’s Dream Factory & Culture The History Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) is a German automobile company that was founded in 1916. With over 90 years of experience BMW has driven its way to the top of the auto industry and is best known for its performance and luxury vehicles. BMW is the ultimate driving machine. While BMW celebrates its successes, the company remains humble and recognizes that things can go wrong. In 1959
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drinks. When he could not convinced the owners he went his way to open his own coffee shops. Baldwin and his partners sold the Starbucks to Shultz the next year and Shultz changed all his coffee shops’ names to Starbucks. “Over the course of its history, Starbucks has bought or acquired companies like Peet’s and Seattle’s Best Coffee, and took over many locations of Coffee
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The Impact of Participative Management on Employee Satisfaction, Employee Commitment, and Turnover Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of participative management on employee satisfaction, employee commitment, and turnover. The analytical data are based on the survey of 31 private sector employees. Pearson correlation coefficient results show that both employee satisfaction and employee commitment are effected by participative management, while turnover is not effected
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SIMMONS COLLEGE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NURSING Theory and Practice: Primary Health Care Nursing I The Health History Biographical Information Full Name: | | | Address: | | | Birthdate: | | | Sex: | | | Race: | | | Marital Status: | | | Next of kin I contact person: | | | Employer I job description: | | | | Health Care Profile Usual source of health care (provider/facility): | | Medications (Prescription and OTC): | | Allergies
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and unsatisfied employees that lead to poor performances and productivity. A well-defined corporate culture consists of six common attributes that define the corporate culture. These six attributes: Vision, Values, People, Place, Narrative/history and Practices (Coleman, 2013) help to create the organization uniqueness. It also let key stakeholders such as customers, shareholders, employees and the public to understand the core of the business. A clear definition of each characteristic is essential
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local economy; many people depend on the company for their income. Frank is a manager of corporate reporting who reports directly to Jim McIntosh. Frank is a longtime employee of Amalgamated Forest Products and was raised up in the system. Frank’s history is long one with the company that dates back to his father, whom worked at the plant before he did and started after High School just as Frank did. Frank started out as a yard man just like his father before a serious accident injured his leg; Frank
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Job Satisfaction Overview: Job Satisfaction is how content an Individual is with his or her Job. It is a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Researchers have divided Job satisfaction into 2 sub Categories: Affective Job Satisfaction and Cognitive Job Satisfaction Affective Job Satisfaction: The extent of pleasurable feelings one has about his or her job. Cognitive Job Satisfaction: The extent to which Individuals are satisfied with different facets
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