Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Motivation For Free

Employee Motivation You Can't Buy

As we have discussed in class, salary and other hygiene factors are usually enough to keep employees from becoming dissatisfied with their jobs but not enough to provide actual job satisfaction. In order for employees to truly become satisfied with their job, they need to feel a sense of pride for the work they are doing and appreciation from their co-workers and managers, among a few other things. When employees feel as if their managers truly appreciate the work they do and even have a personal relationship with those leaders, they are more likely to enjoy their job and be motivated to stay at the company.

Throughout this article, motivation to stay at a company is discussed. Although it is very tempting for any employee to leave a company for its competition, especially if the competition may be offering more compensation and better benefits, they are less likely to do so if they feel a personal relationship to their present manager. When managers remain honest and concerned for their employees, as Eisenhower did with his troops, both parties feel a better sense of equality and motivation. Both equality and motivation are factors that will indeed lead to job satisfaction.

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