ESSAY: motivate the employees

Throughout this course, we are going to draft a company policy that encourages managers to empower their employees. Several topics will be analyzed in preparing this policy to ensure that it will be successful upon implementation. Topics that will be addressed include company culture, motivation, economics, managerial accounting, decision making, and risk management. We will work through these issues as they relate to your idea for a new policy and end with a final proposal to the executives.

Assignment 1:

Throughout the first two weeks, you have read about the importance of motivating employees within a company as well as how this is an economically wise decision. The first step in this project is to come up with your idea as to how you are going to motivate the employees within the company. I want you to explain the idea, and present research to support the importance of motivation (how it benefits both the company and the employee) as well as support for your idea specifically.

This does not need to be written as a formal research paper, but all research provided does need to be cited in APA format. You may write in the first person because you are presenting your own ideas. You do not need to provide an abstract, but you do need an APA formatted title page and reference page. Your paper should be a minimum of 2 pages (approx. 700 words) not including the title and reference.

ANSWER

With the continued competitive world of business and desire for productivity in both public and private organizations, it is almost obvious that matters central to the needs of employees are adhered to. Research indicates that many organizations tend to lay emphasis on the needs of customers and assume that it is automatic that employees will adhere to the goals and aspirations of the company. The fact however is that employees need various forms of motivation in order to work towards achieving such goals. Employee motivation can be said to be an economic factor which every organization has to hold dear as will be shown in this essay.

Importance of motivating employees and why it is an economically wise decision Motivation can be defined as coming up with strategies can stimulate and inspire employees with the goal of ensuring they undertake their responsibilities to the best of their ability. It can also be said to be a psychological way of ensuring that such employees automatically show their willingness to make an extra effort because of outside forces/ inducement mechanisms. First and foremost, motivation ensures that employees change the negative perception they may be having regarding various aspects