Employee Motivation
EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION
AN INTRODUCTION
Some warm-up exercises
Motivation, talent, experience, wisdom, opportunities
Before you jump into the material, or at least at some stage in your research, try the following warm-up exercises to develop your thinking. Write down what you think:
• Motivates a member of a government cabinet?
• Motivates a member of a board of directors of a commercial organization?
• Motivates a member of a board of directors of a non-commercial organization?
• Motivates a middle ranking member of the above organizations?
• Motivates a junior / low ranking member of the above organizations.
• Motivates Madonna?
• What has and does now, motivate Bob Dylan?
• Motivated the great classical composers (maestros Bach, Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Chopin etc?)
• Motivated great, truly remarkable figures from history, the simple clockmaker John Harrison, Galileo, Newton, Lord Nelson, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Mandela, or any other historical figures you are familiar with?
• Using hindsight, what has made the above historical figures and the others you are familiar with great and their legacy so enduring?
• Motivated, until fairly recently (due to the discovery of diamonds on their lands) the Saan or Bushman people of the Kalahari? (They are hunter / gathers whose lifestyle, in probably the harshest environment on earth, has not changed in the 20,000 years of their recorded history (their rock paintings.))
• Motivates a Buddhist monk (everything means nothing and achieving nothing(ness) means everything)?
• Motivates the members of the lowest income group in your society?
• Motivates the members of the middle income group in your society?
• Motivates the members of the highest income group in your society?
• In general, motivates people in a developing country?
• In general, motivates people in a developed country?
• Look around you, draw on your life experiences and sense of humanity, and determine who you
AN INTRODUCTION
Some warm-up exercises
Motivation, talent, experience, wisdom, opportunities
Before you jump into the material, or at least at some stage in your research, try the following warm-up exercises to develop your thinking. Write down what you think:
• Motivates a member of a government cabinet?
• Motivates a member of a board of directors of a commercial organization?
• Motivates a member of a board of directors of a non-commercial organization?
• Motivates a middle ranking member of the above organizations?
• Motivates a junior / low ranking member of the above organizations.
• Motivates Madonna?
• What has and does now, motivate Bob Dylan?
• Motivated the great classical composers (maestros Bach, Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Chopin etc?)
• Motivated great, truly remarkable figures from history, the simple clockmaker John Harrison, Galileo, Newton, Lord Nelson, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Mandela, or any other historical figures you are familiar with?
• Using hindsight, what has made the above historical figures and the others you are familiar with great and their legacy so enduring?
• Motivated, until fairly recently (due to the discovery of diamonds on their lands) the Saan or Bushman people of the Kalahari? (They are hunter / gathers whose lifestyle, in probably the harshest environment on earth, has not changed in the 20,000 years of their recorded history (their rock paintings.))
• Motivates a Buddhist monk (everything means nothing and achieving nothing(ness) means everything)?
• Motivates the members of the lowest income group in your society?
• Motivates the members of the middle income group in your society?
• Motivates the members of the highest income group in your society?
• In general, motivates people in a developing country?
• In general, motivates people in a developed country?
• Look around you, draw on your life experiences and sense of humanity, and determine who you
References: : www.joe.org/joe/1998june/rb3.html www.accel-team.com www.managementhelp.org/guiding/motivate/basics.html www.easytraining.com/motivation.htm www.humanresources.about.com www.motivation123.com/employee-motivation.html Organisational Behaviour - ROBBINS