•Employee Motivation

•Human Resource

•Union-Management Relations

Understand the concept of motivation and be able to contrast two important approaches to motivation.

Know about management style and be familiar with theories x, y, and z.

And, know what labor unions are and how and why they develop.

Lesson Objectives

Advanced Organizer Question

Take a moment right now and write down some of the things other than money that you believe motivate you.

Early Approaches to Management

Early approaches to management involved time and motion studies seeking the "one best way" to do something. Some workers still seemed more "motivated."

Motivation

MOTIVATION: an inner drive that intensifies and directs an individual's behavior towards the accomplishment of a goal.

Multiple Choice Question

When managers perform studies in an attempt to discover the “one best way” to do work, they are engaging in:

A. Time and motion studies

B. Hawthorne studies

C. Motivation studies

D. None of these answers