AOS 2A: Motivation Strategies Flashcards
What are motivation strategies?
Motivation strategies are techniques that encourage and inspire individuals to achieve business goals.
What is the purpose of motivation strategies?
- Unmotivated employees -> mediocre business performance and productivity
- Motivated employees -> workforce that works hard to achieve objectives
What are the key motivation strategies?
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1. Sanction strategies
2. Career advancement
3. Investment in training
4. Performance related pay
5. Support strategies
What are sanctions strategies?
Sanctions refer to penalties for poor performance or disobeying a policy.
- loss of benefits, demotions, written warnings
Short term effects of sanction strategies
Can ensure employees are motivated to do the right thing in the short term for fear of receiving sanction.
Long term effects of sanction strategies
Sanctions can harm relationships and damage the corporate culture
What are the advantages of sanction strategies
- Some employees respond to sanctions
- May bring other employees in line, due to fear of sanctions
- Can be effective in the short term
What are disadvantages of sanction strategies
- Normally only a short term motivator
- Can cause disputes and possible union involvement
- Can cause resentment from employees
What is career advancement
Career advancement is where an employee is given the opportunity to take on greater responsibility in the business.
- Increased pay
- improved self-esteem
- challenge and experience for employee
- status
Short term effect on career advancement
Providing the possibility of a promotion can improve motivation in the short term, as employees strive to take on the increased responsibility.
Long term effects of career advancement
Employees may see the position they would like to be in the long term and set out a career path
What are the advantages of career advancement?
- Business knows the value, skills and potential of the employees they are promoting
- Employees are rewarded for their past performance
- Helps retain talented employees
What are the disadvantages of career advancement?
- May cause resentment from those overlooked for promotion
- Lack of outside perspective brought into the business
- Difficult to promote all employees
- May create rivalries
What are the long term effects of investment in training?
An ongoing investment in training creates a learning
environment which can lead to long term motivation.
What are the short term effects of investment in training?
Employees are motivated in the short-term as they have
improved their knowledge and skills, allowing them to complete their jobs better.
What are the advantages of investment in training?
- Shows employees the business values them
- Helps build a learning culture
- Provides employees with a sense of job security
- Helps retain valued employees
- Enables employees to perform at a higher level
What are the disadvantages of investment in training?
- No guarantee the employees will remain in the business
- Is often expensive
- Can be wasted if there aren’t sufficient jobs with higher skill level required
What is performance related pay?
Performance related pay is where employees receive a financial reward based on meeting or exceeding performance standards.
This can come in form of:
- Pay increases: Receiving an ongoing pay rise
- Bonuses: One off payments
- Commissions: Receiving a percentage of each sale made
- Share plans: Receiving shares in the business
What are the short term effects of performance related pay?
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Possibility of more money motivations employees in the short term to work harder to achieve standard.
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What are the long term effects of performance related pay?
When financial rewards become an ongoing strategy, long term motivation can occur.
What are the advantages of performance related pay?
- Can provide immediate motivation
- Reward the best performers in the business
- Provides clear criteria on how to achieve the incentive
What are the disadvantages of performance related pay?
What are support strategies?
Support is individual assistance and services designed to help employees cope with problems that may negatively impact their lives on work performance.
- Employee assistance programs: Confidential counselling services
-Mentoring: an experienced employee acts as a mentor for new employees
- General managerial support: used during difficult times
What are the short term effects of support strategies?
Helps employees complete tasks or helping them through difficult times.
What are the long term effects of support strategies?
Creates an environment where employees feel they belong
What are the advantages of support strategies?
- Can improve mental well-being of employees
- Build a strong culture
- Can be a long-term motivator
What are the disadvantages of support strategies?
- Needs a positive culture to work effectively
- With EAP, managers may not know of any employee problems making it hard to demonstrate emotional intelligence
What is investment in training?
Investment in training is where an employee learns and improves their
knowledge and skills, so they are able to perform their job to a higher level
• Improved skills can motivate employees as they are able to perform
there to a higher standard
• Learning new things can help motivate employees
• shows the business values them
