Paper 1 Divider 19 Flashcards
Employee motivation is needed
- decrease unit costs
- increase labour productivity
- costs are spread over more units of outputs
Maslow
- Self actualisation
- Esteem
- Social
- Safety
- Psychological
-believed that not everyone is motivated by the same thing
Maslow adv
-acknowledges that everyone isn’t motivated by the same thing, so there is a variety of ways to motivate
Maslow disad
All employees dont order these needs in order
Taylor
- scientific management, employees are only motivated by money
- focuses on productivity and output
Taylor adv
Will work if people are motivated by money
Taylor disad
Not everyone is motivated by money
Herzberg two factory theory
Suggests that these motivate employees an factors can affect them
Herzberg adv
Job satisfaction: achievement, enrichment, responsibility
Herzberg disad
Job dissatisfaction: pay, working conditions, relations
Financial methods, salary schemes
- employees are paid according to given period of time
- adv: encourages workers to be more efficient
- disad: cant earn more money for working longer hours
Financial methods, profit sharing
- a proportion of profit is shared out to employees
- adv: helps encourage staff to accept change
- disad: person doesn’t have control over the reward
Financial methods, piece rate
Where workers get paid by output and the number of finished items they produce
- adv: increase output
- disad: rushed output, bad quality
Financial methods, performance related pay
When employees reach targets and objectives
- adv: rewards linked objectives
- disad: some certain employees may not be rewarded
Financial methods, commission
Workers are paid in additional amount on top of their salary
- adv: encourages employees to increase sales
- disad: staff pressuring customers to purchase staff
Non financial methods, job enlargement
Giving an employee more tasks
- adv: increase motivation, more interesting
- disad: more training
Non financial methods, empowerment
More decision power making, no supervision
- adv: fresh helpful ideas
- disad: need supervision to ensure they don’t increase costs
Non financial methods, job enrichment
More responsibility and authority
- adv: increase motivaton, employees like challange
- disad: increase training costs
Non financial methods, team working
Work in groups to achieve common objectives
- adv: tasks completed quicker
- disad: could cause arguments
