The document discusses various methods for motivating employees, including incentive schemes, job enrichment, and employee empowerment. It defines motivation and its importance for employee performance. Some key motivation theories are explained, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Herzberg's two-factor theory. Incentive schemes can include financial bonuses or non-financial rewards to improve motivation. Job enrichment aims to make jobs more challenging and reduce repetitive tasks. Employee empowerment gives workers more autonomy and responsibility over decisions. The strategies outlined can increase productivity but require adequate training and support.

1. Motivating Employees
Group Members:
Sameer Dhurat 21
Fidak Middya 22
Ankita Funde 23
Shruti Gala 24
Mrudula Gavand 25

2. Introduction
Motivating Employees
• Employee motivation is the level
of energy, commitment, and
creativity that a company's
workers bring to their jobs.
• Whether the economy is growing
or shrinking, finding ways to
motivate employees is always a
management concern.

3. Motivation
• Motivation is an important factor which encourages
persons to give their best performance and help in
reaching enterprise goals.
• A strong positive motivation will enable the increased
output of employees but a negative motivation will
reduce their performance.
• A key element in personnel management is motivation.

4. Nature of Motivation
1. Motivation is an inner feeling which energizes a person
to work more.
2. The emotions or desires of a person prompt him for
doing a particular work.
3. There are unsatisfied needs of a person which disturb
his equilibrium.
4. A person moves to fulfill his unsatisfied needs by
conditioning his energies.
5. There are dormant energies in a person which are
activated by channelizing them into actions.

5. Element of Motivation
There are 3 key elements
Intensity Direction Persistence

6. Motivational Cycle

7. Types Of Motivation
Motivation
Positive Motivation
• Positive motivation or
incentive motivation is
based on reward.
• The workers are offered
incentives for achieving
the desired goals.
• The incentives may be in
the shape of more pay,
promotion, recognition
of work, etc.
Negative Motivation
• Negative or fear
motivation is based on
force or fear.
• Fear causes employees
to act in a certain way.
• In case, they do not act
accordingly then they
may be punished with
demotions or lay-offs.
• The fear acts as a push
mechanism.

8. Maslow's need hierarchy theory

9. Herzberg's two factor theory

10. Alderfer's ERG Theory

11. Vroom's Expectation Theory

12. Equity theory of work motivation
• Person
• Comparison other
• Inputs
• Outcomes

13. McClelland’s needs theory
• Need of achievement
• Need for power
• Need for affiliation

14. Applications of motivation theories
• Rewards
• Job design
• Employees involvement programme
• Management by objective
• Employee recognition programme

15. Importance of motivation
• Sets the action of individuals in motion
• Improves the performance efficiency
• Ensures accomplishment of organizational goals
• Creates pleasant and supportive relationship
• Employees retention
• Acceptance of organizational challenges

16. Types of motivational strategies
1. Incentives Schemes
2. Job Enrichment
3. Employee Empowerment

17. Incentives schemes
Definition:
Incentives are the monetary benefits which are paid to
workers as a reward for their excellent performance.

18. Prerequisites for an Incentives
schemes
1. Motivation
2. Definite and quantifiable objectives
3. Reduction in production
4. Easy to understand
5. Payment for increased production
6. Simple to administer
7. Efficacy
8. Compliance with policy and labour laws
9. Unrestricted wages
10. Well timed disbursement of incentives

19. Financial
Incentive Scheme
• Individual
Incentive Scheme
• Group Incentive
Scheme
Enterprise
Incentive Scheme
• Right to purchase
shares of
employing
company.
Non-Financial
Incentive Scheme
• Job security
• Challenging work
• Reward &
Recognition
• Opportunities for
Advancement
• Job Rotation
Types of Incentive Schemes

20. Advantages of Incentive Scheme
• Increase in volume of output
• Reduction of idle time
• Reduction of cost of production per unit
• Benefit to consumers

21. Disadvantages of Incentive Scheme
• More supervision required
• Union opposition
• Overworking to earn more incentives
• Discontinuation of Incentive

22. Job Enrichment
• Job enrichment is a management concept that involves
redesigning jobs so that they are more challenging to the
employee and have less repetitive work.
• Job enrichment has its roots in Frederick Herzberg's
Two-Factor Theory, according to which two separate
dimensions contribute to an employee's behaviour at work.
 The first dimension known as hygiene factors, involves the
presence or absence of job dissatisfactors such as wages,
working environment, rules and regulations, and supervisors.
 The second dimension refers to motivators, which are factors
that satisfy higher-level needs such as recognition for doing a
good job, achievement, and the opportunity for growth and
responsibility.

23. Job Enrichment Options
• Rotate Jobs
• Combine Tasks
• Create Autonomous Work
Teams
• Implement Participative
Management
• Redistribute Power and
Authority
• Increase Employee-Directed
Feedback

24. Employee Empowerment
Employee empowerment is giving employees a certain
degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision-making
regarding their specific organizational tasks.
It is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to
think, behave, take action, and control work and decision-
making in autonomous ways.

25. Why Empowerment?
1. First-line employees must make many decisions.
2. An employee feels much more control in their life since
authority is given to individual decision-making.
3. There is great untapped potential among employees, which
can be revealed through empowerment.

26. Strategies Of Employee Empowerment
1. Providing the necessary skills to do the job
2. Granting sufficient authority
3. Providing adequate information and resources
4. Guiding with positive feedback

27. Advantages Of Employee
Empowerment
1. Problem solving becomes faster.
2. Increasing the Productivity and Morale.
3. Bigger Involvement Leading to Bigger Commitment.
4. Lower levels of management stress

28. Disadvantages Of Employee
Empowerment
1. Risks in Lack of Experience.
2. Might Decrease Efficiency.
3. Relationship Blurring.

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