Essays on Extrinsic Motivation

Most organizations utilize performance appraisals to measure the importance of the performance of the employees. DeNisi emphasizes the performance appraisals are ways of providing feedback to the employees regarding their performance at work and the basis for decision-making for compensation increase or promotions. It implies that the performance appraisals determine ways to improve the employees’ performance. In the same way, an effective performance appraisal can result in how good a company accomplishes its strategic objectives. As a result, the proper understanding of the strategic objectives in the performance appraisals assists anybody within the organization, particularly the management to become ...

Introduction

Employee involvement relates centrally to core managerial functions and organizational behavior. Employee involvement, in organizational terms, refers to participation and commitment of employees towards adding value to their organizations by utilizing their own creativity, problem solving skills, qualification, experience, and expertise. It is essential to increase the level of employee motivation to raise their level of engagement because motivation serves as a base for any further consideration in this regard (Schneider & Barbera, 2014). This paper sets out to provide some of the most practical recommendations directed towards improving employee performance by increasing their involvement.

Steps to be taken in order to increase employee motivation and involvement for performance enhancement are as follow:

Providing employees with autonomy Providing ...

Fall Risk on Med/surgical Unit: A comparative Study of Using 5ps of Micro-system Framework to Deming Quality Improvement Theoretical Framework

Introduction

In the current health care environment, people are increasingly aware of the care quality of different health facilities. Therefore, hospitals and other health organizations take extensive efforts to enhance the quality of their overall health outcomes. In a medical/surgical unit, the issue of patient fall can adversely affect patient recovery, and hence, the overall health outcomes of the organization. This paper will compare fall risk on med/surgical unit using 5Ps of micro-system framework to Deming quality improvement theoretical framework.

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Organisational behaviour is a study of business organisations and how the separate component parts come together to work to attain optimal results and attain synergistic effects. This is often done by evaluating the different business units in an organisation and how they work together under a specific leadership in order to ensure that the people, assets and resources of the organisation works to attain the highest and best results. Organisational behaviour aims at bringing together components of an organisation to ensure effective work and efficient utilisation of resources at the lowest possible cost. The purpose of this paper is ...

1. The main difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation is that the first type originates from outside of the person’s aspiration, i.e. somebody perform the action just for the sake of pleasure to do it. On the other hand, extrinsic motivation is explained by the aspiration to get a reward or to avoid punishment for an action. 2. Fear appeals to be effective in order to attract someone’s attention to something or someone suspicious or dangerous. From personal experience, I would say that the most effective examples of persuasion based on fear are warnings regarding health and ...

The “Rules of the Plantation” document highlights the overseer’s code of conduct during American slavery. Its 23 provisions or rules raise managerial and ethical issues in the current managerial, capitalist work environment. One provision that is especially interesting as related to the current managerial practices is number 10, which is also critical for the nowadays work ethics. Rule number 10 of the “Rules of Plantation” documents indicates that “The negroes must be made to obey, and to work [], with very little whipping” (Southern Cultivator 103). Therefore, the whipping, a physical punishment, was accepted as a work practice. The ...

470 UNIT 5 ASSINGNMENT

Human behavior relies on a drive. Whether it’s looking for food to survive or trying to score a certain grade in the exams. All our behavior stems from somewhere and there is always a reason for doing the things that we do. A drive refers to the force that propels one to do something in a certain way, in order to get something valuable to us in return. Motivation is similar to this and it is the intense urge that pushes an individual to meet a specific need or want. There are different types ...

INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION ON POLICE BEHAVIOR

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Police Behavior There is a theory that declares ‘if you do not love what you are doing when you go to work every day you are wasting your time’. While there are people who go to work just to make ends meet fulfilling the base of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Jancewicz, 2016), those who work in the law enforcement portion of the public sector are often drawn by a need to “protect and serve” (Jancewicz, 2016). While the very nature of what they do sets law enforcement apart from the private sector, ...

Management and Leadership

Business Management and Leadership In order to meet the requirements of the given task, I would highlight two aspects of leadership and then incorporate them into my personal leadership development plan. Although there are several qualities of a leader and a leader serves to provide the right direction to its followers whenever and wherever necessary, I will focus on two main areas of leadership which are motivation and transformational leadership.

There could be several ways to provide an explanation for the term motivation. However, the very basic idea about motivation is that it is a driving force which basically ...

Introduction

Background In the contemporary business environment, the role of Human Resources has become a crucial and important component. Many traditional perceptions suggest that the HR is only perceived as a department to source and acquired new talents. However, most of the HR activities are far beyond the sourcing and employing the new employees. Human Resources Managers are involved in planning, coordinating, and directing the administrative responsibilities of the organization. According to Bach and Edwards (2013), human resources management allows organization and establishment of employment conditions that allows the employees to achieve the desired productive output while satisfying a wide ...

Introduction

Contemporary Business Environment places a lot of pressure on the company with regards to sustainable and profitable development. In order to be able to compete in the international arena, companies have to look for new ways to differentiate and diversify their business. One of the biggest challenges for a modern company is to build on internal expertise and skills that would help this organization create competitive advantage based on its intangible assets and people. Individuals are subject to a variety of influences and the employment relationships are becoming more complex. Human Resource Management (HRM) is facing new challenges, such ...

TRANSFORMATIONAL V. TRANSACTIONAL:

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS COM221-18 Technical Report Writing Abstract

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List of Figures and Tables 4 Introduction 5 Methodology 7 Results of the Study 9 I. Charisma and the Transformational Leader 9 II. Transactional Management-By-Exception 10 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits: Emotion v. Non-Emotion 11 IV. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation 12 V. Poor Attitude at Work 13

Discussion of Results 15

I. Significance of the Charismatic Personality Trait 15 II. Management-by-Exception Unsuccessful with Employee Motivation 15 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits 16 IV. Significance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Identification 16 V. Poor Attitude at Work 17 Concluding Remarks and Final Recommendation 18

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Appendix B 22 Glossary 23 ...

Independent variable was an extrinsic reward for the particular activity. There were three conditions regarding independent variable – the condition with expected reward, the condition with unexpected reward and the condition of the absence of reward. The dependent variable was extrinsic and intrinsic motivation of children. The design of the study was the field experiment what allowed examining motivation of individuals in their familiar environmental conditions. Researchers observed subjects of the study before the experiment to see what activity is the most intrinsically interesting one for subjects. Also, observations for subjects were conducted in the post-experimental period to see how ...

Motivation Case

The situation outlined in the case takes place in a software company. When the company founder and CEO, Cindy, realized that her profits have stagnated, she decided to increase employee performance by restructuring. While the company employees used to work individually, Cindy has established small teams of 8, starting with IT department. Teams have been created based on personality inventory and consisted of both “millennials” and more experienced “gen-Xers”. Employees have been informed that they will be evaluated as a unit. As a result, several months later Cindy has registered that performance of IT department has substantially reduced, deadlines ...

The problem statements are as follows:

What is the role of the teacher in motivating the students? REVIEW OF LITERATURE The Motivation – Definition and Interpretation Motivation means driving people ahead; sometimes this process of pushing is self-made or sometimes the people are pushed with outside forces. The basic attribute of motivation is to move people into action. It activates the people towards doing something. The purpose of motivation lies in its etymology. The word motivation is derived from the original Latin word movere, which means to move or be moved (Ryan, Lynch, Vansteenkiste & Deci, 2010). For moving something, some action must be performed. For example, ...

Education

Participating in University Fitness Program Introduction Campus Fitness Program Overview Wellbeing is a growing trend in almost all demographics given the increasing awareness about the benefits of physical fitness. The university strongly promotes wellbeing among students by participating in campus recreations and part of the initiative was to establish a fitness gym inside the campus that the students can use for free. Apart from the usual sports and other recreation programs created as part of the physical fitness curriculum, the university also encourages the students to stay physically fit by establishing a fitness gym as a recreation facility. I ...