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This blog of Elizabeth described about some motivation systems of human resources, it includes 4 methods: rewards, attract, empower and educate. Rewards means giving employees training and promotion opportunities. Attract is using various programs to develop employees’ interests to work. Empower refers to pass some tasks to employees to give them authority and make own decisions. Educate is teaching job-related tools to employees.In this blog, I would share my understandings about these tools.

As for rewards, the blogger regarded training and development opportunities as reward. From my perspective, rewards have two parts: financial rewards and non-financial rewards, financial rewards are commission and bonus…Commission is usually for sales staff, besides basic salaries, there are extra payment to each sale made. Bonus is also extra payment for employees with good performance .Financial rewards can provide physical help to motivate employees work harder for higher living quality. Non-monetary rewards are fringe benefits like free health insurance, free food, and vacations ,which may satisfy employees who care less about money and more about working environment.

Attract is using programs to develop employees’ interests to work and enjoy their working life, therefore they may have more incentives to work and achieve better performance.Team-working can be a way, asking employees working in teams can meet both social and esteem needs as they can communicate, build friendship and be respected by others. Better-motivated staff may increase productivity and also decrease labor turnover. Both these would reduce costs of businesses.

Empower is passing down authority and responsibilities to perform tasks to workers. Allowing employees have more freedom and make some own decisions can show trust.Empower can also develop the ability of employees to deal with more complex tasks, which may develop more multi-skilled workers.However, empower may bring some problems, too as employees may not have enough ability to complete these tasks and even make the whole project worse. Also, mangers may only delegate boring tasks to workers—this would not motivate them.

Educate refers to training to employees and the blogger wrote this in reward part, but I think this should be concluded in educate. Training is a way to improve employees’ workforce skills and efficiency ,which shows employees are important to businesses and businesses are willing to ‘invest’ on them. However, educate can be expensive and businesses may not have ability to train every staff, then the staff who do not have training opportunities may be demotivated.

In conclusion, to develop career of employees, those 4 methods of human resources can be used but they all have negative effects. Businesses should connect and evaluate these methods with their actual cases and make the best decision.

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