NON - FINANCIAL MOTIVATORS

Question 1

What are non-financial motivators

Answer 1

Using job design and methods other than money in order to influence employee behaviour.

Question 2

What does job enlargement mean

Answer 2

Job enlargement means challenging the design of the job so that it incorporates a greater scope of tasks for employees to do.

Job rotation
Job enrichment

Teamwork is also another important way to increase motivation

Question 3

What is Job rotation

Answer 3

Job rotation is where employees are trained to carry out a number of different roles in the workplace in order to vary their day to day activities.

Question 4

What are the advantages of job rotation

Answer 4

Employees become multi - skilled and are therefore more flexible

Giving employees variety in their day to day roles should reduce boredom.

Question 5

What are the disadvantages of job rotation

Answer 5

Training costs

Giving employees more boring roles won’t necessarily make the job interesting

Question 6

What is job enrichment

Answer 6

Job enrichment is where employees are empowered to make decisions about how to carry out their day to day role, and increases the accountability for job outcomes.

Question 7

What are the advantages of job ebnrichemnt

Answer 7

Develops employee skills and abilities - Link to Maslow/ Hertzberg

Makes employees feel valued

Increases promotional opportunities

Question 8

What are the disadvantages of job enrichment

Answer 8

Training costs

Extra pressure on staff

Can be a method of reducing layers of hierarchy by stealth

Short term costs

Question 9

What is team work

Answer 9

Teamwork occurs when the production process is organised into groups of employees who work together to complete a specific task.

Question 10

What are the advantages of team work

Answer 10

Meets employee’s social needs (Maslow)

Enables a degree of specialisation

Varies day to day activities that individual staff engage in (if you specialise at tuning engines on cars, you may ask your team that are working on the car with you, if it’s alright for you to work on the body work that day)

Enables a ‘matrix structure’ to occur, where employees with different skills collaborate (i.e marketing and operations)

Question 11

What are the disadvatages of team work

Answer 11

Training costs

Potential short term loss of productivity as staff get used to each other

Can be demotivational if teams are split up