Q.3. 1 Imagine that you are a department head. Over the last few months you have noticed that your employees have lost their motivation to work effectively and efficiently. You think that the reasons for the decreased motivation are related to the current events in the business environment. Briefly (!) describe what developments in the current business environment may have affected your employees’ motivation. Note 1: The answer to Q3.1 should provide the background only. Most of your answer (at least 80%) to Q.3 should address Q3.2. Q.3.2 Design a detailed plan based on Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory and Equity Theory to increase your employees’ motivation.
Q.3. 1 Imagine that you are a department head. Over the last few months you have noticed that your employees have lost their motivation to work effectively and efficiently. You think that the reasons for the decreased motivation are related to the current events in the business environment. Briefly (!) describe what developments in the current business environment may have affected your employees’ motivation.
Note 1: The answer to Q3.1 should provide the background only. Most of your answer (at least 80%) to Q.3 should address Q3.2.
Q.3.2 Design a detailed plan based on Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory and Equity Theory to increase your employees’ motivation.
Note 2: Your answers must include examples clearly (!) showing your understanding of the issues related to leadership, groups and teams, and control and change.
.1: With the current crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lower level of motivation of employees can be attributed. The pandemic has endangered the world 's safety of thousands of people at work. The prospects for their work worry most of the employees. Workers feel like never before that safety at work is under threat. Their motivations are therefore very low
3.2: Herzberg's theory of motivational hygiene states that the drivers of job satisfaction differ from the drivers of job dissatisfaction. Absence of factors leading to job unhappiness will only reduce the degree of unhappiness, but will not satisfy employees.
Equity motivation theory states that employees are comparable with their colleagues' inputs and result; when equity exists, employees are motivated and inequality is felt demotivated.
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