Employee Productivity

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Employee Productivity
Motivation Incentives

• Rachel Waldo
• Brett Corday
• Abby Martin

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Our Goal

• Productivity Measures
• How Technology Measures Employee Productivity
• Role of Motivation and Incentives on Productivity
• Potential Issues of Motivation and Incentives
• Case Studies

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Cube, Incorporated Help Wanted!
We are hiring 3 Block handlers

• No experience necessary

• Great Incentives and rewards

• To apply, raise your hand!

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Work Hard! Be Safe!
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Incentive for Cube, Inc Employees
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Performance Evaluation!

• Which shift was most successful?
• What was the best motivator?

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The types of Measures and how Technology helps
Productivity Measures
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Single Factor Productivity

• This is the easiest and most simple type of
  productivity measure.
• A Ratio That Equals 11
• One Input One Output

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Labor Productivity Measure

• A ratio that is single factor, but only involving
  inputs and outputs associated with labor
• For Example
• Input Output
• Hours Worked Products Produced
• 6 Hrs Worked 6 Products Produced,
• A ratio of 11

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Multi-Factor Productivity

• Output equals the approximation of different
  inputs
• For example
• 3 hrs worked 3 machine hours 6 products
  produced
• M.H. approximated to test productivity

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A Word of Caution

• Because some inputs are , final decisions are
  sometimes inaccurate.
• Inputs like prices, are sensitive and should be
  accounted for
• Productivity measures are served best when in
  comparison of a hypothetical scenario, (or
  company.) This tests efficiency

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Technology and Production Measures

• How time and activities are allocated is
  important to improve employee or manufacturing
  productivity,
• Need to measure the information accurately
• A time study for process improvement can help
  streamline production

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Time and Activity Allocation

• How are time and activities allocated?
• Traditional methods of gathering time are awkward
  
• The question is
• How can we monitor production times accurately?

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The Answer

• The Time Corder

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Advantages of Time Corder

• Gets employees involved in the productivity
  study
• It is easy to use
• Easy to analyze data collected
• Helps with overall process improvement
• Improves time management

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The Results of Motivation and Incentives
The effect Motivation and Incentives has on
Productivity
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Why study and apply motivation?

• Human capital is your most important capital
• Treat colleagues as human beings
• Well motivated employees are more productive and
  creative.

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Effects on Productivity

• The goal of a manager is to get their employees
  to produce effectively and efficiently
• Motivation is the key to performance improvement
• This can be done through incentives
• Motivation is intangible, it drives all human
  action, and it is the energy source for
  employees.

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Why it works!
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The Potential issues of Motivation and Incentive
Issues of Motivation and Incentives
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Potential Issues with Incentives

• Alfie Kohn
• Dehumanizing
• Competition not Cooperation
• Best for Mindless tasks
• Short-term benefits
• Pay-for-Performance
• Automotive Industry
• Alignment with Goals
• U.S. Healthcare
• Fictional Fires

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Potential Issues with Performance Measures

• Culture of Distrust
• Gut Reactions to Normal Variations
• Unclear Communications
• Unsupportive of Organizational Objectives

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Innovation The Role of Motivation Incentives

• Theory of Motivation
• Hygiene Factor
• Motivation Factor
• The Innovation Factor
• Sense of Control
• Autonomy
• Credit for the Outcome

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Case Study
Innovation and
The soul of Google is rapid innovation - David
A. Vise, The Google Story
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Googles Culture

• Pajama Day,2005

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Google Founders Award
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Googles Finances
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Googles Stock Value
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Similarities Control Data Google

• Culture
• Lack of Bureaucracy
• Strong Customer Focus
• Knowledge Workers Needs
• Acute Knowledge
• Supportive Infrastructure
• Risks/Failures

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Motivating People to Volunteer at the Baltimore
National Aquarium
Case Study
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What makes you Volunteer?

• To Learn
• Satisfaction
• 98 of adults believe that a great deal of
  satisfaction is gained by volunteering
• Be an example for family and friends
• Time is one of their most valued commodities.
• Relationships are highly valued
• Interact with others
• Volunteers prefer to be creative as they solve
  problems.

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Does it match up?

• Learn
• Satisfaction
• Be an example
• Relationship
• solve problems.

• Trained and tested for each specific job
• Weekly distributions showing the difference
  being done
• Live the mission of the Aquarium
• Eat together, have dinner and celebrate as
  groups
• Input is important, treated as staff

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How good are they?

• Designed in 1977
• 600 active volunteers
• Model that many other organizations copy
• Clear mission and goals
• Making a difference on the environment
• Running a world-class volunteer program demands
  the same standards of excellence as any well-run
  corporate business, says Audrey Suhr, director
  of volunteer services and staff development at
  the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

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• Questions?

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• Thank you for your participation and for
  listening.