Motivation Flashcards

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Why is have employees motivated a good thing

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Productivity
Lower labour turnover
Better quality products

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Leadership styles, examples and their meanings

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Leadership style - Different approaches to dealing with employees and making decisions when in authority
Autocratic - when the manager expects to be in charge of the business and the decision making
Democratic - when other employees are involved in the decision making process
Lassiter farriez - makes broad objectives for the business and lets the employees do most of the decision making

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Advantages autocratic

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Decisions made quicker
Clear instructions
More experience

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Disadvantages autocratic

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Less motivation
Ideas are not considered

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Advantages democratic

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Highly motivated
Employees are more accepting of change
Creative thinking

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Disadvantages democratic

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Longer decision making
Arguments

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Advantages laissez fairies

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Motivated by the responsibilities
Allows innovative thinking

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Disadvantages laissez fairies

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Poor performance/inexperienced decisions
More work
May feel directionless/I dont know what to do

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Financial methods motivation, examples and their meanings

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Salary - the pay yearly
Commission - a payment relating to the amount of sales made
Profit sharing - where a proportion of the company’s profit is paid out
Fringe benefits - other benefits such as a company car
Bonuses - a sum of money given if the worker has done well
Time rate - the amount paid to a worker for one hour
Piece rate - the amount paid for each unit of output

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Non financial methods, examples and their meanings

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Job rotations - workers swap to do different jobs in a production line
Autonomy/teamworking - working in groups and are responsible for a particular part of the assembly
Workers can decide as a group who does what tasks
Job enrichment - adding more tasks that require more skill so they take on more responsibility (may require training)
Training - the process of improving a workers skill, worker may feel a sense of achievement
Opportunities of promotion- the advancement of an employee in an organisation, may feel a sense of achievement and get more
Challenging work

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Maslows hierarchy

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Psychological needs, food/Shelter
Safety needs, job security
Love and belonging (social needs), work colleagues support
Self esteem, being recognised by doing a good job
Self actualisation, being promoted given more responsibility

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Herzeberg motivational theory

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Hygiene factor
- decreases if you dont have it but doesn’t increase motivation
Eg; health and safety

Motivating factors
- opportunities
- financial

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Taylors motivational theory

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Scientific theory that people are only motivated by money, piece rates

However not everyone is motivated by money

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What is job satisfaction

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The enjoyment derived from feeling that you have done a good job

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