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    Employee Satisfaction

    Employee satisfaction, motivation, and well being


    Understand the role of motivation in
    promoting a safe work environment

    Explore the role of work culture to ensure


    employee well-being
    Learning Why is employee satisfaction an important
    concept
    Objectives Outline some important employee retention
    strategies

    Discuss how ethics and employee well-being


    are related.
    Discussion Topic - 1
    • Why do people quit their jobs? List all the reasons that lead you and your friends to
    quit your jobs.
    What motivates people?

    How can we use this information to make sure


    that organizational processes motivate our
    Motivation
    employees? at work

    Four basic emotional drives (needs) guide people:


    Drive to Acquire Drive to Bond Drive to Comprehend Drive to Defend
    • Met through organizational • Promoted through • Based on effective job design • Based on performance
    rewards commitment to teamwork, management & resource
    friendship & openness allocation process
    How To Fulfill
    the Drives That
    Motivate
    Employees
    Cultural
    Audits

    •
    Corporate
    Culture
    How do employees spend their time?
    • How do they interact with each other?
    Audits of
    the culture • Are employees empowered?
    and • What is the predominant leadership style of
    quality of managers?
    work life • How do employees advance within the organization?
    in
    an
    organizati
    on
    Pleasant • Creating a pleasant workplace makes good
    economic sense.

    workplace • Wages and benefits are not the main


    reasons people like their jobs or stay
    with an employer. Social relationships
    among co-workers and supervisors are
    strongly related to overall job
    satisfaction.
    Managers are
    focusing on
    motivating and
    Dramatic changes
    leading people,
    in organizations
    making
    collaborative

    Employee
    decisions

    Change has
    resulted in new
    satisfaction
    employment May depend on
    options being career timing or
    offered or preferences
    requested by
    employees
    Employee retention
    Strategies.

    In good times, focus is In bad times, issues


    on rewards, such as stress, decision
    satisfaction, and making and coping are
    retention of employees important
    Enhancing Employee
    Well-Being at Work
    Employees are increasingly
    has led to more personal conflicts and
    complaining that the lines between stress.
    work and private life have blurred.

    Creation of global organizations; the


    world never sleeps
    Communication technology; people
    Why? bring work home
    Organizations are asking employees to
    work longer hours

    Organizations must help employees strike a balance or risk losing


    key employees and future candidates.
    Creating a Positive Organizational Scholarship
    • how organizations develop human
    Positive Work strength, foster vitality and resilience,
    and unlock potential.
    Environment • This approach challenges companies
    and managers to focus on how to
    enhance employee strengths rather
    than dwelling on their limitations.
    Improving Ethical Behaviour

    Ethical Dilemmas and Ethical Required to identify right and wrong conduct
    Pressured to cut corners, break rules, engage in
    Choices other questionable practices

    The study of moral values or principles that guide


    our behaviour
    Ethics Inform us whether actions are right or wrong
    Help us “do the right thing”
    from private
    Employee recognition “thank you” to
    programs high profile
    recognition

    Employee According to expectancy theory,


    the key component of motivation is
    Recognition the link between performance and
    reward
    Programs
    Using reinforcement theory,
    providing recognition immediately
    following positive behaviour leads
    to repetition.
    Management Reward Follies
    Motivating by Job
    Redesign
    • Job Design
    • The way the elements in a job are organized can act to
    increase or decrease effort
    • Also suggests what those elements in the job are
    The Job
    Characteristic
    Model
    The Job Characteristic Model (JCM) can describe
    any job in terms of five core job dimensions
    • Skill variety
    • Task identity
    • Task significance
    • Autonomy
    • Feedback
    The Job Characteristics Model
    How to • How can managers design work so employees
    make jobs are motivated to promote the well-being of
    the organization’s beneficiaries?
    more pro- • Beneficiaries include customers, clients,
    patients
    socially • View of job design shifts focus from employee
    to those whose lives are affected by the job
    motivating
    Relational Job
    Design
    How can • Better connect employees with the
    this be beneficiaries of their work

    done?
    Examples of
    Flextime
    Schedules
    The Social • Policies such as job rotation, employee
    empowerment, and employee participation have
    and positive effects on productivity, at least partially
    because they encourage more communication and
    Physical a positive social environment.

    Context of • Social characteristics include interdependence,


    social support, and interactions with other people

    Work
    Employee Involvement

    Employee Involvement Examples of employee involvement


    programs
    Participative process that uses employees’ input Participative management
    to increase their commitment to the Representative participation
    organization’s success

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