BUSI 3102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Goal Setting, Motivation, Work Motivation
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In what domain are managers of major corporations best trained: marketing, finance, production. In what domain should managers of major corporations receive training in: human resources, production, finances. Five strategic priorities of international ceos (all five are directly related to hrm: attracting skilled staff. Improving workforce performance: changing management behaviour, changing culture/attitude. Only 13% were satisfied with how their hr departments achieved these priorities. Economic: global trade and competition, productivity improvement. Demographic: shift toward knowledge workers, aging population, gender, generational (boomers, gen x, gen y) Technological: flexible work design, information technology. Cultural: diversity, ethics (conflict of interest, employee and client privacy) Strategic hrm- an overview (supporting organizational strategies: attracting a quality workforce. Motivation represents those psychological processes that cause the arousal, direction, and persistence of voluntary actions that are goal directed. Work motivation is a set of energetic forces that originate within as well as outside an individual to initiate work-related behaviour and to determine its intensity, direction, and persistence.
