MGHB02H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - Motivation in Practice
11 Dec 2011
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According to maslow and alderfer, pay should prove especially motivational to people who have strong lower level needs. Besides being able to satisfy psychological needs, can also gain prestige among friends, signal competence as a worker and demonstrate boss cares about you, it satisfies social, self esteem and self actualization needs too. Expectancy theory, if pay can satisfy a variety of needs, it should be highly valent, it should be a good motivator to the extent that it is clearly tied to performance. Piece-rate a pay system in which individual workers are paid a certain sum of money for each unit of production completed. Wage incentive plans various systems that link pay to performance on production jobs. Usually leads to substantial increase in productivity. Lowered quality sacrificed quality for increased productivity. Differential opportunity workers have different opportunities to produce at a high level, quality of equipment or supply of materials varies from workplace, workers at disadvantage.
