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Employee Motivation

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Nadia Gilbert

Employee Motivation

Organizational Behavior

South University Online

Feb 5, 2014

Motivation is the key importance to a successful business to all individuals working in a business environment organization. A business corporation has a social responsibility to maintain when it comes to internal employee motivation. “Motivation is the process that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal” (Robbins & Judge, 2010).

“Research has shown that corporate social responsibility has a positive impact on employee’s motivation when it comes to productivity, recruitment, satisfaction, retention, loyalty and commitment” (Heslin & Ochoa, 2008).

Management objectives are important to a company when setting goals that are obtainable for the company business. Goal setting such be included to every individual, this give them structure and reassurance I can do all thing. Once an individual has set a goal they will perform to the best of their ability to achieve it with ambition and without hesitation. With management behind the individual giving appreciative bonuses and rewards would be beneficial and gives the job well done approach. The management team should give the incentives of a great dollar amount of gift card to let the employees know that management has recognized the performance and to continue to shine on.

The self-efficacy theory should be recognized when an employee has set goals and accomplished them, it gives them the attitude that they can perform the task and ready for the next level. Management or a supervisor has the capabilities and the knowledge of seeing great potential in their employees and have the room for growth within with the company. There make be times when the supervisor or management may ask you to work over or even work weekends to meet project deadlines.

Some companies may start or have in place a training program that will enhance the employee’s knowledge to become more self-efficient. By implementing this into their training program employees will build their confidence to perform well at the expectations level of that performance when provided with the right tools to succeed.

“Employee involvement is defined as a participative process that uses employees’ input to increase their commitment to the organization’s success” (Robbins & Judge 2010). The employer’s involvement is very instrumental to a business or an organization is shows they employees the drive to work

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