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Workplace Motivation Paper
The job of the manager is to get things done through his or her employees. In my workplace, our company has put in to affect several motivational strategies to assist their management through their train program. In this training program the company uses extrinsic motivation to assist in the development of our staff.
This training program is based on four levels of training and development; at each level of the employees' development they are eligible for a salary increase. Each level in the employees' development has its challenges; every employee must complete worksheets, workbooks, take tests with a minimum required score, and complete all on floor training activities. The training program has encouraged many of the employees to reach the fourth level of development and giving each of those employees opportunity for advancement. My companies training program seems to have derived its core concepts from the Ego Development Theory, which was developed by Jane Loevinger in 1976. (Reeve, 2001) Loevinger describes personality growth as a sequence of changes in impulse control, interpersonal methods, and conscious preoccupations. In other words, each developmental level corresponds to a frame of reference or lens through which individuals identify and understand his or her social world.
Not every employee has the drive or the interest to develop a career with my organization, so how does this training program motivate those that do not aspire to develop a career? This is where my company's motivational strategy comes in, each employee has the opportunity to develop to what ever level he or she choose and still gain the benefit of salary increases as well as the other b ...