Motivation, Leadership, and
Teamwork
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Learning Objectives
1. How do motivation and work environment encourage “flow”?
2. What are the main theories of motivation, and how are they applied to the workforce?
3. How have motivational theories and industrial psychology changed the work environment since the early twentieth century?
4. What are the various identifiable leadership styles and traits, and how do they affect business leadership?
5. What are the best ways to create, manage, and participate in teams?
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Motivation
• Personal motivation
- What drives you to do your best?
• Flow
• Organizational psychology
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Motivation in the Workplace
• 73 percent of U.S. employees are not engaged in or are actively disengaged from their work
• SAS Institute in North Carolina fosters a creative environment by: - Keeping employees intellectually engaged - Removing distractions - Making managers responsible for sparking creativity - Eliminating arbitrary distinctions between
administrative “suits” and more abstract “creatives” - Engaging customers as creative partners
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Benefits of Keeping Employees
Motivated
• Workers are more productive
• Workers are more creative
• Retention levels are higher
• Companies benefit financially
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Theories of Motivation:
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Theories of Motivation:
McClelland’s “Three Needs” Theory
• The three needs
- Need for achievement
- Need for affiliation
- Need for power
• Individuals tend to have a dominant need
- This need will most influence motivation
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Theories of Motivation:
Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene
Hygiene Factors
• Safe working environment
• Proper pay and benefits
• Relationships with co-workers
Motivators
• Recognition
• Responsibility
• Promotion
• Job growth
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Dissatisfied Neither Satisfied nor Dissatisfied
Satisfied
Adequate Hygiene Factors
Inadequate Hygiene Factors
Adequate Motivators
Two factors that influence a person’s motivation:
Applying Motivational Theories
• Motivational theories lead to different approaches to actually motivate workers
• Extrinsic motivation
• Intrinsic motivation
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Theory Z
• Based on a Japanese management style • Relies on collaborative decision making • Employees tend to become generalists, not
specialists • Offers long-term employment with an
emphasis on individual responsibility • Workers are cooperative and loyal to the
organization • Benefits: low turnover, high productivity, and
strong workforce morale
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Vroom’s Expectancy Theory
• Motivation =
Expectancy is the idea that a person’s effort has an appreciable
effect on a situation’s result- whether it is a success or failure
Instrumentality refers to the idea that the outcome of a situation is related to rewards or punishment
Valence is the importance that the individual places on the
expected outcome of a situation
High motivation: (My work actually affects the outcome)*(There’s a good chance I’ll get a reward)* (If it works out, it’ll be a big reward!)
Low motivation: (Nothing I do is going to impact the situation)*(Even if it does go well I’ll get a reward if this works out)*(The only reward from this is incredibly small)
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Valence Expectancy Instrumentality * *
Strength-Based Management
• A system based on the belief that, rather than improve weak skills, the best way to help employees develop is to
- Identify employees’ current talents and skills and then provide additional training and support to develop them into areas of excellence
- This match between an employee’s strength and his or her daily activities, and working around his or her weaknesses, each employee becomes more motivated and engaged in his or her work
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Evolution of Motivational Theories
in Business
• Scientific management
- Frederick Taylor
- Increase productivity by training workers in the best methods to complete a task
• Industrial psychology (1920s and 1930s)
• Frank and Lillian Gilbreath – Used photography to study employee work patterns
and then analyzed these patterns to increase productivity
• The Hawthorne Effect
- Elton Mayo
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Motivational Theories for the
Modern Workplace
• New ideas are still being developed in organizational and industrial psychology
- Uncertainty management theory
• Fairness becomes more important in uncertain circumstances
• Perceived unfairness hurts job satisfaction and performance
- Sociocracy
• The interests of everyone are served equally
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Leadership
Leading is the process of influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute to the success and effectiveness of an organization by achieving its goals.
Four common types of leaders: • Democratic • Autocratic • Affiliative (Laissez-Faire) • Visionary
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Are There Systems for Measuring
Leadership?
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There are many personality tests that can
provide information that people can then
use to assess their leadership potential
and improve their leadership skills
Popular personality assessments:
• Big Five
•Cattell 16 PF
•Thematic Appreception Test
Teamwork:
The Advantages of Teamwork in
the Workplace
• In good, working teams, there’s agreement on the objectives at hand and on the best approach to solve the problem.
• Teammates depend on one another’s ideas and efforts to complete tasks successfully.
• There is a sense of accountability, and members are committed to one another’s success.
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The Challenges Teams Face
in the Workplace
• Teamwork does not always bring more creative output.
• Groupthink: If a team is not carefully selected this behavior of “wanting to fit in” can lead to narrow-mindedness
• Different generations in the workforce may have different styles and expectations.
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Best Practices
for Teams
• Group flow occurs when a group knows how to work together so that each individual member can achieve flow
• Characteristics of such a setting - Creative spatial arrangements
- Playground design
- Constant focus on the product’s target group
- Heavy use of visualization and prototyping to construct early models
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How Managers Can Form
the Best Teams
• Some important considerations in forming a team - Size
• Too large: struggle with cohesiveness • Too small: lack diverse perspectives
- Time • Some teams’ projects may have a short time frame • Some teams work together for long time periods on
everyday tasks
- Status • Formally created teams provide updates and have
access to company resources • Less formal teams will have to work more at
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The Effect of Technology on the
Design of Teams
• Virtual teams
- Needed because of increased globalization
- Tools aid implementation
• Conference calls
• Video conferencing
• Live broadcasting
• Web casts
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Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People
1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win–win
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
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Chapter Summary
1. How do motivation and work environment encourage “flow”?
2. What are the main theories of motivation and how are they applied to the workforce?
3. How have motivational theories and industrial psychology changed the work environment since the early twentieth century?
4. What are the various identifiable leadership styles and traits, and how do they affect business leadership?
5. What are the best way to create, manage, and participate in teams?
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