MGIS 317 Lecture Notes - Elton Mayo, Job Enrichment, Job Satisfaction

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MGIS 317
• Professor: Ronald Schlenker

Document Summary

This is the internal and external factors that stimulate people to take actions that lead to achieving a goal. This basically means the desire or workers to see a job done quickly and well. Unmotivated staff will be reluctant to perform effectively and well done jobs. The techniques he used of establishing an idea or hypothesis, studying and recording performance at work, altering working methods and re-recording performance are still used today. This could be ways to improve output per worker or productivity following taylor"s theory: Observe them performing the task and note the key elements of it. Record the time taken to do each part of the task. Train all workers in the quickest method and do not allow them to make any changes to it. Supervise workers to ensure that this best way is being carried out and time them to check that the set time is not being exceeded. Pay workers on the basis of results.