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Here are ten tips about employee motivation and creating a work environment for motivating employees. This is the bottom line for understanding employee motivation.
For motivating employees a manager require emotional intelligence.And worst part is resistance from employees because different employees have different requirement for motivation
One of the main reasons of motivation being a challenging job is due to the changing workforce. The employees become a part of their organization with various needs and expectations. Different employees have different beliefs, attitudes, values, backgrounds and thinking. But all the organizations are not aware of the diversity in their workforce and thus are not aware and clear about different ways of motivating their diverse workforce.
Following are the few factors that considered as barriers to emplyee motivation:
– The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can.
– Because people dislike work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed and threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational objectives.
– The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all.
– The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest.
– External control and threat of punishment are not the only means for bringing about effort toward organizational objectives. People will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which they are committed.
– Commitment to objectives is a function of the rewards associated with their achievement.
– The average human being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek responsibility.
– The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population.
– Under the conditions of modern industrial life, the intellectual potentialities of the average human being are only partly utilitized.
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Progress constantly
And financial and functional improvement of the situation constantly
And reward those who deserve only
"Managers face a tough challenge in maintaining employee commitment and motivation but the penalties of failure will be falling national productivity and a vicious circle of continued declines in pay and jobs as we lose out to our international competitors," he said.
"While inflation looks set to fall and personal allowances due to rise, these will not be enough to increase real earnings back to their pre-recessionary levels.
The challenge for employers is to keep staff motivated at work while many employees see their living standards hit. Organisations should review how they communicate the economic realities the business faces and what needs to happen for pay to increase."
Although almost half of workers received a pay increase last year – even if subdued – Mr Cotton warned just19pc felt their pay rise reflected their performance, suggesting there was a need for "improved communication of positive news".
Considering workers could have received no increase or a pay cut in the current climate, effective conversations between managers and staff could have seen a higher number appreciate what they got, he said.
"Only then might employees remain engaged with their work and motivated to perform well," he said.