Staff Motivation

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Staff Motivation

• English Department, Huzhou TeachersCollege

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Objectives

1. To enable students to talk about motivation at
   work.
2. To practise one-minute talk on business topics.
3. To learn to solve practical problems

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Tasks and Schemes

1. Reading on page 78.
2. Oral practice.

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• Reading on page 78.
• Meeting the companys motivational challenge.
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• Adrian Furnham discuses the thorny issue of
  putting motivational techniques into practice.

Difficult to handle causing trouble or worry. ???
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Of the person staying in the company but his mind
fleeing out of it.

1. We have all seen the quit-but-stay employees
   who have severed their psychological contact with
   the organization.

Separate or disjoin
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1. They firmly park their brains and their
   enthusiasm for life in the staff car park in the
   morning, reengaging them with gusto 30 seconds
   after the official end of work time.

vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

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1. However, they shrewdly avoid doing anything that
   warrants dismissal and are content to keep their
   heads down, doing the minimum and volunteering
   nothing.

Clever in judgments??
Having no desire to progress and be promoted
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1. The less intrinsically interesting the work, the
   more needs to be done to make it acceptable job
   enrichment, job rotation and job sharing.

Transfer ones job in turns
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1. You do not have to organize outdoor assault
   courses.

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1. Pay people what they are worth. Consider such
   factors as market forces, predatory competitors
   and the contribution each individual makes.

Concerned with or living by or as if by robbery
and seizing the property of others
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To preserve forever caused to be remembered for
ever.

1. We get the perpetuation of incompetence.

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• Oral Practice
• What is the writers attitude to motivational
  techniques according to the information in the
  text? Do you share this attitude?

The writer is skeptical. He sees so-called new
motivational techniques as old ideas repackaged.
He also questions whether these techniques are
ever put into practice successfully.
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• Managers assume that the goals of employees are
  those of the company. Do you agree? Why or why
  not?
• Agree / why
• The employees interests are in line with those
  of the company.
• The employees goals, such as improved benefits /
  pay rise / career development / more bonus / good
  opportunities of promotion, are based on the
  companys goals to maximize profitability, to
  improve overall strength of the labour forces, to
  achieve good sales, to continue company growth,
  etc.

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• Disagree / why not
• The employees interests may not be in line with
  those of the company.
• The employees goals may be short-term and
  practical. e.g. higher salary, better benefits,
  better working conditions, quicker promotion
  (internal recruitment), etc.
• While those of the company are long-term and
  integrated. E.g. steady and sustainable growth of
  the company, increase of market share, better
  quality of the labour forces (outside
  recruitment), maximization of profitability,
  increase of capital accumulation and project
  investment, etc.

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• Motivation stems from job satisfaction and not
  financial reward. Do you agree? Why or why not?
• Agree / why
• Job satisfaction is the pleasure one feels when
  one does the job.
• It is something spiritual.
• To do a meaningful job, to be happy at work and
  to be recognized are more important.
• When one is secured with basic material life, he
  would be in need of spiritual satisfaction.
• Many people are motivated by a rich and
  interesting, job or by their interest in certain
  job rather than in only financial reward.

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• Disagree / why not
• Everything in modern society is based on money.
• Financial reward provides the basis of job
  satisfaction.
• Financial reward is more tangible.
• Spiritual satisfaction is guaranteed by material
  security.
• Business success is measured in terms of the
  money one earns.
• Without financial reward, there is no talking
  about motivation.

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• Agree / disagree
• That depends on whether you are practical-minded
  or spiritual-minded.
• Motivations stems from both job satisfaction and
  financial reward.

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• Assignment
• try to complete the Findings and Recommendations
  section or the report on page 80 by summarizing
  the grievances of the Terrain employees.

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Thank U 4 your attendance!
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• writing task complete the Findings and
  Recommendations section or the report on page 80
  by summarizing the grievances of the Terrain
  employees.
• Findings
• A number of employees clearly suffer from a lack
  of motivation as a
• result of dissatisfaction in one or more areas of
  their work. The key
• findings are outlined below
• Staff feel undervalued by the company, both on a
  financial and a personal level. It is generally
  felt that the companys competitors offer higher
  levels of remuneration. The perception that
  managers are unappreciative of staff efforts is
  particularly noticeable in the Sales Department.
• Certain employees feel under-challenged. The
  company is clearly not exploiting the potential
  of its human resources.
• There appears to be a breakdown of communication
  in the Production Department. The confusion and
  resultant ill-feeling towards managers has the
  potential to disrupt production.

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• Recommendations
• We strongly recommend the following measures
• An evaluation of job profiles throughout the
  company to assess whether skills could be
  utilized more efficiently.
• A review of the current salary structure
  involving comparison with similar organizations.
• It is also essential to investigate and take
  action regarding communication in the Production.