RSM260H1 Lecture Notes - Flextime, Job Enrichment, Absenteeism
Document Summary
Employees and managers underestimate the importance of pay as a motivator. Pay can function to satisfy social, self-esteem and self-actualization need. Expectancy theory: of pay can satisfy a variety of needs, it should be highly valent, should be a good motivator to the extent that it is clearly tied to performance. Pay is most important and effective motivator of performance. Ability to earn money for outstanding performance is competitive advantage for attracting, motivating and retaining employees. Piece-rate- individual workers are paid a certain sum of money for each unit of production they complete. Usually for workers who are paid a basic hour wage (), and a piece-rate on top of hourly wage ie. . 00/hour & sh. 30 for each unit produced. Group incentives-when individual productivity is hard to measure ex. Wage incentive plans-various schemes to link pay to performance on production jobs. Wage incentives usually lead to substantial increases in productivity.
