Motivating behavior with work and rewards

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Enhancing Performance in Organizations ( look at the figure)


Managers can use a variety of methods to enhance performance in organizations. The
need- and processbased perspectives on
motivation explain some of the factors involved in
increasing the potential for motivated behavior
directed at enhanced performance. Managers
can then use such means as goal setting, job design, flexible work arrangements,
performance management, rewards, and organizational behavior motivation to help translate this potential into actual enhanced performance.

job characteristics theory


Uses five motivational properties of tasks
and three critical psychological to improve outcomes

The job characteristics theory is an important
contemporary model of how to design jobs.
By using five core job characteristics, managers
can enhance three critical psychological
states. These states, in turn, can improve
a variety of personal and work outcomes.
Individual differences also affect how the job
characteristics affect people.


compressed work schedule


Work schedule in which employees work a full
forty-hour week in fewer than the traditional five days
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flexible work schedules (or flextime)


Give employees more personal control over the hours they work each day

The Goal-Setting Theory of Motivation


The goal-setting theory of motivation provides
an important means of enhancing the motivation of employees. As illustrated here, appropriate goal difficulty, specificity, acceptance, and
commitment contribute to goal-directed effort. This effort, in turn, has a direct impact on performance.

Purposes of Performance Management (look at the figure)


Performance measurement plays a variety of roles in most organizations. This figure illustrates that these roles can help managers judge an employee’s past performance and help managers and employees improve future performance.


balanced scorecard or BSC


A relatively structured performance management technique that identifies financial and nonfinancial performance measures and organizes them into a single model

The balanced scorecard is a structured performance management technique. In its most basic form, managers establish both goals and measures for how they want to assess customer perceptions, financial performance, internal business process, and innovation and learning. Each of these sets of goals and measures need to be consistent with each other as well as with the organization’s overall vision and strategy.

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