The effectiveness of
Morgan-Moe’s
Motivational
Programmes
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Executive
Summary
Morgan Moe’s drug stores are in financial crisis due to economic downturn. All expansion plans were halted and staff were being laid off. To avert these crises, new systems were introduced to motivate staff amidst the challenges. This report details the results of implementing the various motivation programmes with valuable recommendations.
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Introduction
Throughout the assessment, some key dependent and independent variables were worth noting. These are:
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The individual management styles
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The demographics (age, mobility, employee status)
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Employee satisfaction and turnover
In each of the programmes however,
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The total number of stores did not influence our conclusion of which programme was more effective because the results were based purely on financial comparisons. •
The involvement of the managers in the choice and implementation of the programmes empowers them and enhances their skills in goal setting.
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The merits in randomly assigning different conditions are: o To avoid or mitigate manager prejudice and ensure the achievement of the overall Programme objectives. o To give variation in the findings for future reference and eventually ascertain which method or programme is the best suited for Morgan-Moe
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Recommendations
In managing retail employees, it is a good practice to:
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Be proactive in sensitizing and developing staff people skills through regular management Programmes such as capacity building and age diversity programmes, so they are abreast with changing trends in the business environment
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Establish good communication channels among the various levels of employees as well as the external environments
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The participation of a more experienced workforce helps these programmes because they bring more knowledge, experience and are more stable on the job. Also, their productivity is high with reduced labour cost as a result of less man hours. But most importantly, the company can leverage from them in bridging the knowledge gap.
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In an economy that is not doing so
Western Health System noticed that many of its local clinic managers were leaving to join the competition. Their human resources director, Stephanie Anderson realized that they were losing a lot of talented people who had become demotivated, and she worked on developing a program to increase their motivation in hope that they would remain committed to Western Health System. Her program, Exploration, had many great features, but to truly asses the program one first has to understand motivation, motivational theories, and the current issues at hand.
According to researcher Lindner (1998), motivated employees are needed in our rapidly changing workplaces to aid in the survival of organizations. Not only is it important to meet the needs of the consumer, it is equally important that to make sure that associates are taken care of and remain motivated. For this reason, Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly and Konopaske (2012) “states much of management’s time is spent addressing the motivation of their employees” (p. 125). According to the Encyclopedia of Small Business (2007), employee motivation is the level of energy, commitment, and creativity employees bring to their jobs; the inner force that drives individuals to accomplish personal and organizational goals (Lindner, 1988). Despite its obvious importance, employee motivation can be an elusive quest for managers due to the multiplicity of incentives that can influence employees to do their best work. The reality is that every employee has different ways to become motivated and the knowledge of how to motivate them is key to organizational success. It is imperative that employers get to know the personal needs and wants of their employees in order to establish tactics in which to motivate each of them. Once achieved, “managers are in a better position to encourage and reward employees to behave in effective ways” (Gibson et al, 2012, p.
In addition, fewer and fewer people are needed for the various jobs as many computers can take over the tasks. In many production plants and factories, computers will replace the workers because they never get tired, do not need breaks, the error rate is zero, and they are not entitled to leave. On the other hand, new jobs have been created by the technology and development that did not exist before.
Furthermore, standard expectation results in a decrease in a workers’ efficiency when completing an assignment. In addition, making workers work for more than 40 hours a week result in less creative innovation For example, when a person “create an environment that never changes and is always the same, you’ll stop innovation dead in its tracks” (DeMers 2016). Also, there are too many distractions that workers are faced with in work that reduces productivity, like unnecessary meeting and conversation that takes up too much time.
This of course is far from the reality. New workers needs to be trained and be accustomed to doing a certain job. While he or she is on this stage the production level goes down which mean lower profits for the company.
Productivity refers to what can be produced at a given time with the least resources and effort. Productivity can also be defined as the ratio that estimates ho properly an organization converts its resources into goods/services or financial results such as profit. Workplace settings can be perceived as the pressures, situations, stresses, aggressive, demographic, social, regulations and technological elements that affect the operations, survival, and growth of organizations.
It’s important to have motivated workforce, so it can enhance productivity of company. IKEA makes sure to understand its staffs and wat motivates them. Besides satisfying their basic salary needs, IKEA ensures that job security is assured for each worker by valuing all workers and creating this sense of belonging n the company. Each worker has equal opportunities for promotion and career advancement. Motivation is also important between staffs themselves and with IKEAs friendly working environment has helped improve working relationships in every individual staff. Each human has different needs in their lives, so knowing what they desire is important to management. It can be associated with Maslow’s Hierarchy Motivation Theory (Griffin, R. (2014) Fundamentals of Management (7th Edition, pg.15) stating “people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs, including monetary incentives and social acceptance”. There are no best motivations method, however, motivation is based on individuals or the
This research work is based on finding out the factors of motivation that can be employed for the NHS foundation staff. The NHS Foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organization within the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. These trusts have a certain degree of independence and work in an autonomous form as related to the Department of Health in the country. As computed in March 2014, there are 147 foundation trusts for NHS operating in the country. The factor of motivation of the employees in the workplace is extremely important for deciding the performance levels of an organization that functions in the healthcare segment. As such, this research is conducted to evaluate the existing motivation levels, strategies and performance within the organization. In addition, the motivation strategies that can be used by the business managers in the organization are considered and their practical application is analysed. The research would be mainly based on secondary research methodology in which data would be gathered from the employee groups working in the NHS foundation Trust. The research report is structured in a methodical and step by step manner. Suitable research aims and objectives are designed followed by a thorough review of the available literatures on the topic of motivation. The literature review would help to provide a base for the development of the research work and for analysing the collected data from a theoretical
High productivity: In the workplace there are numerous people belonging to different caste, culture ,sex ,class etc. and each individual has the capacity to offer different views and ideas to a particular problem or challenge. Thus it increases employee morale and
We are trying to find Morgan Koop’s birth parents. Also we will be matching the other 4 couples up with 4 other kids that also got adopted during the time of 1992. We need to find her birth parents so she can get a new social security card and so we can match the other 4 kids up with their parents. We already know that Morgan has Russian connections, and that their are five couples who lost their child near the time of Morgan’s adoption. With the information that we already know about Morgan, the 4 other kids, and the 5 couples we will be making punnett squares and pedigrees. After we make these pedigrees and punnett squares we will know the genotype of all the couples. With the couples genotypes the kids will get one allele from both parents.
Many of your remaining concerns seem to focus on Principal Morgan’s handling of your previously stated concerns. However, after speaking with Principal Morgan, I find that she took your concerns seriously, conducted her own investigation into the student council and senior class financial account in the 865 campus budget, and made recommendations to the central office based on her findings. Principal Morgan recommended that the practices underlying your concerns—which were established under the previous administration—be immediately revised in the interest of greater financial integrity. I do not believe that Ms. Morgan intentionally ignored you or deliberately kept you uninformed as that would serve neither a personal or professional purpose.
The productivity of any organization depends on the satisfaction of the employees, as happier employees also make more profit as they work faster and harder.
In order to understand motivation in an organization and how it affects its employees and management we must first understand what exactly motivation is. Motivation in an organization encourages employees to work efficiently and in the best interest of the company; as the manager of an organization one should start looking into why or how motivation is established. An organization will not be as successful if their employees are unmotivated and they will likely have a high turnover rate.
Employees those directly involved in manufacturing were paid weekly bonuses based on actual output in relation to anticipated production tonnages produced. The bonuses were paid only for work that met quality standards and were pegged to work groups, rather than individual output. Bonuses were tied to attendance and tardiness standards. If one worker’s tardiness or attendance problems caused the group to miss its weekly output target, every member of the group was denied a bonus for that week. If they are late, even only five minutes, they lose their bonus for the day. If they are thirty minutes late or they are absent for sickness or anything else, they lose their bonus for the week.
A product with less price is better placed in the market than with the same product with higher cost. Yield, Employee productivity are directly related to the employee utilization. It shows how well the employees are utilized in the manufacturing cycle. The productivity also includes how innovative the teams