December 2014
Beginner
480 pages
118h 48m
English
Managers have various strategies at their disposal for motivating organization members. Each strategy is aimed at satisfying subordinates’ needs (consistent with the descriptions of human needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, Alderfer’s ERG theory, Argyris’s maturity-immaturity continuum, and McClelland’s acquired needs theory) through appropriate organizational behavior. These managerial motivation strategies are as follows:
Managerial communication
Theory X–Theory Y
Job design
Behavior modification
Likert’s management systems
Monetary incentives
Nonmonetary incentives
These strategies are discussed in the sections that follow.
Throughout the discussion, it is important to remember that no single ...