BUAD870 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-8: Performance Appraisal, Telecommuting, Marcus Buckingham

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUAD870
• Professor: Bullough Amanda

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Motivating employees is a challenge that has intrigued organizations, management personnel, and social theorists for a long time. The intricate interweaving of personality dimensions, psychological complexes paired with company policies and managerial procedures contribute to the motivational factors in an employee. Numerous social experiments and researches have been conducted to fathom the nuances of motivation. He identifies job content which relates stimuli for growth needs are tasks that introduce growth thereby motivating employees and leading to job satisfaction. Such motivator factors may be an achievement, recognition for achievement, meaningfulness of work, responsibility, growth and other intrinsic elements. In contrast, there is job context which relates stimuli inducing basic pain-avoidance behavior thereby diminishing motivation in employees and leading to job dissatisfaction. He terms these as hygiene factors which may be company policies and administration, supervision, interpersonal relationship, working conditions, salary, status and other extrinsic elements. The early theories of motivation propound that individuals are motivated when they require satisfying certain needs.