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Employee Motivation and Performance Strategies

The document outlines various theories and perspectives on motivation, including content, process, and reinforcement perspectives. It discusses factors that motivate individuals, such as needs and rewards, and highlights popular motivational strategies and alternative working arrangements. Additionally, it covers incentive reward systems and new approaches to performance-based rewards in organizations.

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Employee Motivation and Performance Strategies

The document outlines various theories and perspectives on motivation, including content, process, and reinforcement perspectives. It discusses factors that motivate individuals, such as needs and rewards, and highlights popular motivational strategies and alternative working arrangements. Additionally, it covers incentive reward systems and new approaches to performance-based rewards in organizations.

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The set of forces that cause people to

behave in certain ways

The Nature of Motivation Content perspectives

The Motivation Framework Process perspectives

Reinforcement perspectives

What factors motivate people?

Focus on needs and need deficiencies of


individuals

Physiological

Security

The Needs Hierarchy Approach Belongingness


Content Perspectives on
Motivation Esteem

Self-actualization

Motivational factors (work content)


The Two-Factor Theory (Herzberg)
Hygiene factors (work environment)

Need for achievement

Individual Human Needs (McClelland) Need for affiliation

Need for power

How motivation occurs

Focus on WHY people choose certain


behavioral options to satisfy their needs
and HOW they evaluate their satisfaction
after they have attained those goals
Process Perspectives on
Expectancy Theory
Motivation
Porter-Lawler Extension of Expectancy
Theory

Equity Theory
Managing Employee
Goal-Setting Theory
Motivation and
Performance Focuses on the role of rewards as they
cause behavior to change or remain the
same over time

Positive reinforcement

Avoidance
Kinds of Reinforcement in Organizations
Reinforcement Perspectives Punishment
on Motivation
Extinction

Fixed-interval schedule

Variable-interval schedule

Providing Reinforcement in Organizations - Fixed-ratio schedule


WHEN or HOW often it occurs
Variable-ratio schedule

Organizational behavior modification


technique (OB Mod)

Empowerment and Participation

Compressed work schedule


Popular Motivational Variable work schedules
Strategies "Nine-eighty” schedule

Flexible work schedules / flextime


Alternative Forms of Working Arrangements

Job sharing

Telecommuting

Merit Reward Systems

Monetary Incentives
Incentive Reward Systems
Nonmonetary Incentives

Gainsharing programs
Using Reward Systems to
Team and Group Incentive Reward Systems Scanlon plan
Motivate Performance
Profit-sharing plans

Executive Compensation

Employee participation

New Approaches to Performance-Based


Innovation in incentive programs
Rewards

More effective communication

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