You have acquired a company that has a poorly motivated workforce. Describe what actions you would take to improve motivation and achieve a high-performance workplace
What will be an ideal response?
• Determine what motivates employees by learning about their non-work activities and what type of work or projects they enjoy. Check your assumptions.
• Set challenging but attainable goals, establish clear work objectives and standards of good performance, and provide feedback to encourage achievement
• Link rewards to performance and distribute equitably. Reward employees for behaviors that promote the organization's goals. Be sure the individual employees find the rewards valuable and motivating.
• Match people to jobs they find rewarding and recognize their contributions.
• Remove de-motivators such as politics and favoritism, unproductive meetings, withholding information, etc.
• Practice gain-sharing.
• Make sure pay and security needs are satisfied.
Students could consider the person/job design/leadership/organization framework and apply relevant theories.
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