We hope that you, as someone who leads others, will use any insights that you’ve gleaned from our thumbnail sketches of what motivates workers with various personality types to create heroes in your workplace. When you value a coworker and honor their strengths, motivating them comes easily...
Grounding gamification theory in experience, I examine the popular game Candy Crush Saga. Candy Crush contains four design elements that managers can bring into the workplace to more successfully motivate workers: It provides early and progressively bigger successes, actively celebrates your victories, ...
the hierarchy.Hierarchy of needsLower-order (external): physiological, safetyHigher-order (internal): social, esteem, self-actualization15–2.2 McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y麦格雷戈X理论和Y理论Theory XAssumes that workers have little ambition, dislike work, avoid responsibility, and require close...
Anna and Marie, who are equally intelligent and tend to exert the same amount of effort in the workplace. Anna and Marie are hired by two different firms in the same industry for the same type of jobs. They work the same number of hours and receive the same salary, but their work...
Douglas McGregor theorized that worker motivation is closely linked to the way managers view and treat their workers and that all managers fall into one of two types—Theory X and Theory Y. Later, William Ouchi combined Eastern and Western management practices to develop Theory Z ...
6. Be Flexible With Remote Work In the past few years, many workers got used to the flexibility and freedom that working from home provided, and in many cases businesses saw productivity increase. Some companies even becameremote-first. Other companies can maintain some level of that flexibility...
The pride that comes from special attention motivates workers to increase their productivity. Supervisors who allow employees to have some control over their workplace environment appeared to further increase the workers’ motivation. The Hawthorne effect suggests that employees will perform better when th...
Motivation in the workplace can come from the external or internal environment in which the subordinate is working. The purpose of motivation is to influence specific behavior as well as outcomes to inform overall performance. Answer and Explanation: ...
For example, insurance agents can vie for the top spot in the number of calls made to potential clients. Tech support agents can compete with their co-workers for averaging the least amount of time spent on the phone to resolve customer issues. Gamification does not limit competition to ...
Chapter 16 Motivating Employees Motivating and rewarding employees is one of the most important and challenging activities that managers do. To get employees to put forth maximum work effort, managers need to know how and why they’re motivated. That’s what we discuss in this chapter. Focus on...