How To Motivate your Employees for Organizational Excellence

Pankaj KumarGlobal Groupware Solutions Ltd.06 December, 2012

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Motivation:-

Employee Motivation:-The willingness to exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need

Motivation is derived from the word “motivate”, means to move, push or persuade to act for satisfying a need or the act or process of stimulating to action, providing an incentive or motive, especially for an act

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Decreased motivation leads to :• Lower Productivity• Higher turnover• Decreased Sales• Lack of Creativity

3 Common Demotivators :• Lack of clarity and

communication• Lack of meaning and

purpose• Lack of progress

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Top Reasons why people leave their jobs

Learning Opportunities

Feedback, especially for stars

Bad Bosses

In addition to:

• Job content

• Level of responsibility

• Company culture

• Caliber of Colleagues

• Low growth potential

• Lack of challenge

• Not enough money

• Work environment issues

- Harvard Business Review

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What employee want:-

• Meaningful work• A sense of progress• Recognition • Employee engagement

• Challenging job profiles• Good projects• Job rotation• Job security / stability• Good team, co-workers, bosses

Factors helping to keep employees motivated:-

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Four Drive Model: Theory on Employee Motivation Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

• Acquire • Bond• Challenge• Defend

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• Acquire • Bond• Challenge• Defend

• Like money, things, awards, prestige• Utilize incentives to drive performance

and create a culture of recognition and reward

• Employees will always compare themselves to others… the drive is never fully satisfied

• The Drive to acquire is not only about money, its also about Prestige and Status$$

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• Form positive social relationships with co-workers

• Employees feel part of a group.• Employees will go to help other employee in

their group.• Bonds will help to create positive emotions

and loyalty for Company

• Acquire • Bond• Challenge• Defend

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• Acquire • Bond• Challenge• Defend

• Be inspired to learn and grow – face and overcome challenges

• Ensure that employees are constantly challenged and learning new things.

• Structure the jobs and processes, so that they don’t become routine and boring.

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• Acquire • Bond• Challenge• Defend

• Defend the company and the ideals it stands for

• Feel pride and attachment to the company, what is

does and how it does.

• Transparent about how/what Company is doing

ACME

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Rewards:-

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Things to keep in mind :-• Notice each individual • Say thank you, even a smile can make a

big difference.• Make staff feel respected and valued• Share your experience and knowledge• Be confident about people.• Be honest and trustworthy• Don’t take personal credit for their

success• Create a blame-free culture• Set developmental goals• Make work fun!!

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