Developing Management Skills Motivating Employees

What is Motivation? A force that causes an individual to behave in a specific manner

Management’s Impact on Motivation How management treats employees DOES impact motivation: Treat people as individuals Empower Workers Provide Effective Rewards System Create Flexible Workplace

Management Strategy # 1: Empowerment Empowerment -individuals given autonomy, authority, trust, and encouragement to accomplish a task. Empowerment is designed to make a job the worker's responsibility. Managers are promoting corporate intrapreneurships. Intrapreneurship- encourages employees to pursue new ideas and gives them the authority to promote those ideas. Old structures turned upside down.

Management Strategy #2 Effective Rewards System Reward- work outcome that is positive to the employee Extrinsic Reward- valued outcomes given to employee by another person- (supervisor/manager/owner) Example: Pay Raise; Bonus; New Office Intrinsic Reward- valued outcome that is “self- administered” (feeling of accomplishment)

Components of Effective Reward System Rewards need to satisfy basic needs of all employees. Rewards need to be included in the system and be comparable to ones offered by a competitive organization in the same area. Rewards need to be available to people in the same positions and be distributed fairly and equitably. Reward system needs to be multifaceted. Because all people are different,-provide a range of rewards— pay, time off, recognition, or promotion.

Management Strategy #3 Re-Design Job Job Enlargement- increase variety of tasks Job Rotation- assign jobs and tasks on temporary basis and move employees through different tasks Job Enrichment- increases variety of tasks AND increases level of responsibility

Management Strategy #4 Flexible Workplace Flex Time- permit employees set and control work time Compressed Work Week- More hours/fewer days of the week Job-Sharing- One full time job is split between two people Telecommuting- some of work hours completed outside the office (home)

Class Assignment Students work individually on this assignment. Read articles and conduct research about Fortune Magazine’s report on the Top Companies to Work For in Identify the things within these companies that management does to motivate employees. Prepare a PPT presentation that summarizes this information. to 50 Points