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Applied motivation practices

Applied motivation practices. Chapter learning objectives. Explain how money and other financial rewards affect our needs and emotions. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the four types of rewards. Identify four commonly applied team or organisational-level performance-based rewards.

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Applied motivation practices

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  1. Applied motivation practices

  2. Chapter learning objectives • Explain how money and other financial rewards affect our needs and emotions. • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the four types of rewards. • Identify four commonly applied team or organisational-level performance-based rewards. • Describe five ways to improve reward effectiveness. • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of job specialisation. • Diagram the job characteristics model of job design. • Identify three strategies to enrich jobs. • Describe the five elements of self-leadership. • Explain how mental imagery improves employee motivation.  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  3. Rewarding employees at IKEA IKEA held a special bonus in which the Scandinavian home furnishings company pledged an entire day’s sales revenue to employees. The day doubled previous sales records and awarded each employee $2400. © Steve Lunam/Sun-Herald (Sydney)  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  4. The meaning of money • Money and employee needs • affects several needs, not just existence needs • Money and attitudes • money ethic  not evil, represents success, should be budgeted carefully • Money and self-identity • influences our self-perceptions • evidence that men identify with money more than women © Corel Corp  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  5. Types of workplace rewards • Membership and seniority • Job status • Competencies • Performance © Corel Corp  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  6. Membership/seniority-based rewards • Fixed wages, seniority increases • Advantages • guaranteed wages may attract job applicants • seniority-based rewards reduce turnover • Disadvantages • don’t motivate job performance • discourage poor performers from leaving • may act as golden handcuffs  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  7. Job status-based rewards • Include job evaluation and status perks • Advantages • job evaluation tries to maintain pay equity • motivate competition for promotions • Disadvantages • employees exaggerate duties, hoard resources • create psychological distance across hierarchy • inconsistent with flatter organisations  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  8. Competency-based rewards • Pay increases with competencies acquired or demonstrated • Skill-based pay • pay increases with skill modules learned • Advantages • more flexible work force, better quality, consistent with employability • Disadvantages • potentially subjective, higher training costs  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  9. Share ownership • Share options • Profit sharing Organisational rewards • Gainsharing • Bonuses Team rewards • Piece rate • Commissions • Royalties • Merit pay Individual rewards Performance-based rewards  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  10. Team and organisational rewards • Gainsharing plans • based on cost reductions and increased labour efficiency • ESOPs • employees own company shares • Share options • right to purchase company shares at a future date at a predetermined price • Profit sharing • employees receive share of profits  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  11. Performance reward problems • Shift attention away from motivation of job itself to extrinsic rewards • Create a psychological distance with reward giver • Discourage risk taking • Used as quick fixes  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  12. Improving reward effectiveness • Link rewards to performance • Ensure rewards are relevant • Use team rewards for interdependent jobs • Ensure rewards are valued • Beware of unintended consequences © Corel Corp  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  13. Job design • Assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs • Technology influences, but does not determine, job design • Employability affects job design  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  14. Less time changing tasks Lower training costs Job mastered quickly Better person-job matching Job boredom Discontentment pay Lower quality Lower motivation Evaluating job specialisation Advantages Disadvantages  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  15. Skill variety Task identity Task significance Meaningfulness Autonomy Responsibility Feedback from job Knowledge of results Individual differences Job characteristics model Core job characteristics Critical psychological states Outcomes Work motivation Growth satisfaction General satisfaction Work effectiveness  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  16. Job rotation vs job enlargement Job rotation Job 1 Operate camera Job 2 Operate sound Job 3 Report story Job enlargement Job 1 Operate camera Operate sound Report story Job 2 Operate camera Operate sound Report story Job 3 Operate camera Operate sound Report story  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  17. Job enrichment in wine making Mike Just has an enriched job as wine maker at Lawson’s Dry Hills Winery near Blenheim, NZ. ‘[W]e plant vines here, we pick them, we make the wine on site and bottle it, then sell it to customers who come in’, explains Just, who also enjoys jousting. © Marlborough Express (NZ)  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  18. Job enrichment strategies • Empowering employees • giving employees more autonomy • feeling of control and self-efficacy • Forming natural work units • completing an entire task • assigning employees to specific clients • Establishing client relationships • employees put in direct contact with clients © Marlborough Express (NZ)  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  19. Obstacles to job design • Difficult to accurately measure job characteristics • Resistance to change • skilled workers • labour union leaders • supervisors • Problem finding optimal level of enrichment and specialisation  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  20. Self-leadership • The process of influencing oneself to establish the self-direction and self-motivation needed to perform a task • Includes concepts/practices from • goal setting • social learning theory • sports psychology  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  21. Constructive thought patterns Designing natural rewards Self- monitoring Self- reinforce- ment Elements of self-leadership • Personal goal setting • employees set their own goals • apply effective goal setting practices Personal goal setting  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  22. Elements of self-leadership Personal goal setting Constructive thought patterns Designing natural rewards Self- monitoring Self- reinforce- ment • Positive self-talk • talking to ourselves about thoughts/actions • potentially increases self-efficacy • Mental imagery • mentally practising a task • visualising successful task completion  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  23. Elements of self-leadership Personal goal setting Constructive thought patterns Designing natural rewards Self- monitoring Self- reinforce- ment • Finding ways to make the job more motivating • eg altering the way the task is accomplished  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  24. Elements of self-leadership Personal goal setting Constructive thought patterns Designing natural rewards Self- monitoring Self- reinforce- ment • Keeping track of your progress towards the self-set goal • looking for naturally-occurring feedback • designing artificial feedback  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  25. Elements of self-leadership Personal goal setting Constructive thought patterns Designing natural rewards Self- monitoring Self- reinforce- ment • ‘Taking’ a reinforcer only after completing a self-set goal • eg watching a movie after writing two more sections of a report • eg starting a fun task after completing a task that you don’t like  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

  26. Overview of the next chapter • Description of the stress experience • Types of stressors in the workplace • Individual differences in the stress process • Physiological, psychological and behavioural effects of stress • Five ways to manage workplace stress  2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs t/a Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione

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