Employee Motivation

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Employee Motivation

• Adapted from Businessballs.com/emplyeemotivation.h
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Employee Motivation Questionnaires and Surveys

• Usually very helpful in establishing whether
  staff in your workplace are motivated, performing
  to best effect
• Process of consulting with your staff and
  following through on findings is beneficial and
  motivating on its own

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10 Tips for Questionnaires on Employee Motivation

• What is the primary aim of your company its
  principles, priorities, mission?
• What obstacles stop employees from performing at
  their best?
• What really motivates your staff praise and
  acknowledgement, status, job security, helping
  others, public recognition, financial rewards,
  etc.
• Do employees feel empowered? Do they have some
  autonomy to find their own solutions? Are they
  simply told what to do?
• What are the patterns of motivation in your
  company ?

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• 6. Are employee goals and company goals aligned?
  Do they spend their time on the highest
  priorities of the company?
• 7. How do employees feel about the company?
  Safe, loyal, valued, and taken care of? Or do
  they feel taken advantage of, dispensable, and
  invisible?
• 8. How involved are employees in company
  development?
• 9. Is the companys internal image consistent
  with its external one? (The caring airline, the
  family hotel chain, the forward thinking
  technology company. Disparity between the image
  and reality of how employees are treated affects
  motivation.

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Employee Motivation Principles

• Frederick Herzberg grandfather of motivation
  theory in the workplace, used the analogy of a
  dog. When the owner wants the dog to move, he
  either offers it a treat or gives it a nudge (
  push) from behind. Hard work for the owner.
  Wouldnt it be better if the dog wanted to move
  by itself?
• Transferring this principle back to the work
  place, most motivation strategies are push or
  pull based, where push threats, fear, tough
  targets, complicated systems of checking on
  people and pull bonuss, presentations of the
  grand vision, conferences, campaigns,
  initiatives, etc.

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There are Better Ways to Motivate Employees!

• 1. Everyone is like me. True? Team members are
  motivated in different ways.
• 2. No one is like me. True? Intrinsic or
  extrinsic motivational factors?
• 3. People dont listen to me. Tap into your
  natural authentic style.
• 4. Some people cant be motivated. (Pep talk and
  fire them). May take time need to seek
  employees perspective.

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• 5. But I am listening. Hear understand,
  interpret without judgment so can understand the
  employees perception.
• 6. The same factors that demotivate, motivate.
• Herzberg what motivates people are sense of
  achievement, recognition, the opportunity to grow
  and advance, greater responsibility. Increasing
  wages, improving job security, and positive
  working relationships are marginal factors.

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• 7. I tried it and it didnt work is an
  intitial drop in performance, then people quickly
  adjust and respond to self-management, for
  example, with higher performance.
• 8. This type of motivation takes too much time.
• In the beginning is more time consuming
  than push/pull methods. A mature team is
  virtually self-managing, and the workplace is a
  much better place to be.