Motivation is an incentive

Motivation is one of the key things that drives anyone to do a particular task and achieve their intended objective. Less productivity can be attributed to employees not liking their jobs. Recent statistics by a Conference Board in the U.S showed a decrease in the percentage of people who liked their jobs from 61% to 45%. Organisations are therefore taking motivational strategies very seriously in order to increase their productivity. Motivation can be done through actions from a little as making employees feel valued to just as much as paying them an extra amount of money for the work they do. Elise Lelon, owner of a leadership-consulting firm, has seen the importance of motivating her employees because it makes them happy because they feel valued and therefore they are willing not because they have to but they want to. The old perception of giving employees bonuses is slowly being out faced by new strategies that cost almost nothing but achieve the goal of motiving workers. Elise has taken up this by giving employees job titles and adopting autonomy whereby employees have the freedom to choose working hours that are convenient for them. Mr. Mills of Prime Debt Services has also adopted these strategies by enforcing feedback sessions whereby his employees are able to vent out and forward their complains. Mr. Mills wishes to motivate his employees so much that he offers them free breakfast just to make things lighter for them. However, despite the fact the motivation is a good way of encouraging workers, employers have to be careful of the “folly of rewarding A” as this will result to dysfunctional rewarding.

Sources:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704362004575000911063526360

http://www.executivemanagementskills.com/pdf/folly.pdf

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