Monday, January 31, 2011

Shake It Up- First Team Post

Hello all,

        Our group has decided to talk about the blog topic "Shake It Up" which explains what type of methods companies use to motivate their employees. In this blog Jacob Cyscon, David Harbeck, Lesley Pfeifer, Michael Ziegler, and myself (Brian Cullum) will be sharing ideas of how employers find ways to motivate their employees and how we can take these ideas and use them to motivate ourselves in the future.We will also be sharing content and stories of how employers demotivate their employees and how we could improve them so that employees will be motivated.
       The way companies succeed is by the work employees put into the company and sometimes employees need extra motivation to be able and accomplish all of their work. Employees sometimes have a hard time trying to to stay focused and being able to keep employees working might take some creative ideas. We hope to answer any questions and get feedback about whether you think that these motivation methods would be successful if they applied to you. We also would like to hear what kind of comments you have about the various stories that will be posted. If you agree with the methods employers used on their employees or if there was another reading you would like to share that connects with what we have discussed please feel free to share it. We will also be connecting the stories and ideas we find to the textbook and how what we have learned in class pertains to what techniques are used in the workplace. We hope you find this information useful and encourage you to share your thoughts and ideas!

-Take Care