Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Ch. 6: Motivation in Practice

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Tony Francolini

Document Summary

We will discuss 4 motivational techniques: money, job design, management by objectives and alternative work schedules. In performance jobs pay is commonly linked to performance. Wage incentive plans: various systems that link ay to performance on production jobs. Despite their theoretical and practical attractiveness, wage incentives have some potential problems when they are not managed with care. Lowered quality quality control is hard to monitor, when everyone is focused on producing large quantities of product. Differential opportunity some workers be left at a disadvantage because workers have different opportunities to produce at a high level. Reduced cooperation to maintain a high wage rate, machinist might hoard raw materials or refuse to engage in peripheral activities. Restriction of productivity - the artificial limitations of work output that can occur under wage incentive plans. This happened as employees fear that if they produce at an especially high rate, an employer will reduce the rate of payment to cut labour costs.