Introduction & Background When approaching any type of research, there is a final goal that the researcher(s) wants to achieve, whether there is a hypothesis to test or exploratory data to gather and analyze. With my research, I wanted to relate to my current position at work and future promotion opportunities. In my current position as a Project Engineer, I have responsibilities of managing a project from start to finish while working with a cross functional team. Many times while working on a project, there are items that need to be assigned and/or completed and I can have a difficult time doing this because I do not have any direct reports. Through creating and maintaining good relationships, I am able to have some employees do things I ask them to, but there are always a few that will wait till there supervisor assigns them the task. As defined by Dr. Paul Mullen, motivation is the inner drive that causes one to act (Mullen, 1993). With this history, I wanted to focus on how I can motivate employees to do their best work_ what drives employees to yield a high work performance. Research Design When I first outlined my research project, I wanted to use my current employer as my population. This would allow me to get a very large population with an assortment of variables that I could evaluate to see if there are any trends between motivational factors and the selected variables. These variables would include which plant the employee works at; which would include a geographical variable since my employer has plants in three different states; which department the employee works in, which shift the employee works, which gender the employee is, and what age range the employee falls into. I presented this proposal to my ... ... middle of paper ... ...ons for future research starting with a better defined population sample. A better defined population sample would include a larger population sample for better statistical analysis and to find trends. Plus, by defining the population, the research can be focused for a company or a region, like a city or state. If the population is focused on a region, the population sample should be compared to the demographics of the region similar to how I compared my research to Wisconsin's demographics of gender and age. This would provide a confidence level to the research based off of the demographics. References Mullen, P. (1993). EMPLOYEE MONETARY SYSTEMS: THE PAST OR FUTURE IN EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION. Industrial Management,35(6), 6. U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 12, 2014, from http://eadiv.state.wy.us/demog_data/pop2010/Profile/WI.pdf
The very first step to the “Nine Step Stairway to Effective Evaluation” is to define the research population. Population can mean anybody. So, it is needs to be clear as to who we are focusing on. The specification of the focused population is defined by the evaluation researcher. This can include, age, gender, race, culture, or socio-economic status just to name a few (DiClemente et al., 2013).
Nitin N., Boris G. and Linda-Eling L. (2008, July 01). Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model. Harvard Business Review.
This research involves use of questions whose options of response have been predetermined (Bogdan & Biklen 1992). This design of research employs the use of a large number of respondents. The measurement in this design must theoretically be objective, in numbers and statistically valid. Due to the large number of respondents, the sampling method used is random. Before carrying out the research, the researcher applies a statistical method using formulas to determine the size of the sample which when studied would give findings within acceptable limits. Researchers using this method generally agree that the sample sought should yield findings with 95% confidence interval or there...
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Take into consideration the number of interview subjects with regard to the purpose of the research.
Description of the project: Outline in lay language the theoretical, empirical and/or conceptual basis, background evidence for the research proposal with reference to the relevant literature (include at least four research citations). Note, that your study should be “ based on a thorough study of the current literature, as well as previous studies" (NS 1.1 c)”
Survey research was used to gather information about people’s beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and demographic composition. Survey data was collected by asking participants from a population a set of questions, which could be administered in a questionnaire that was mailed, emailed, or in an interview over the phone or in person (Leedy & Ormrod, 2013). In a sample survey researcher attempted to infer information about a population based on a representative sample drawn from that population. To generalize the findings from a sample to a population, the sample should accurately represent the population (Salkind, 2012). Robson (2011) stated that the details of the design should be fully pre-specified before the beginning of data collection. Gay et al. (2011) informed that correlational research involved data collection to determine relationship existence between two or more quantifiable
This will have the main focus on age and ethnic group. I would randomly select individuals in the age group of 18-34, which are the millennial generation, as for then randomly selecting individuals in the age group of 53-71, which are the baby boomer generation. Due, to the sampling being random sampling, the study will not be focusing on one ethnic group but multiple. For the millennial generation, the random sampling method would randomly select different local high school, in which I can have student participant in this study, as well as for moving to higher education and/or visits different hang out areas that millennials generation seem to be frequently visit. However, before asking individuals for their participant, I would first do an observation. While doing the observation I will be taking records on their interaction with one another, as well as different phrases that are being told. I would like to have a number of four thousand survey responses when conducting the survey to the millennial age group and baby boomer generation. Moreover, for the baby boomer generation will also have an observation in different company area or local place that have different jobs nearby, this will allow the observation have a great amount of diversity as well. When doing this observation, I will be asking these employees if they would participant in a study I am conducting and ask to take the survey. In result of this sample, this will help me have an understanding of who is causing these racial stereotypes
The research design in this study was created following a number of choices related with the reason/purpose of the topic.
Motivation is the force that transforms and uplifts people to be productive and perform in their jobs. Maximizing employee’s motivation is a necessary and vital to successfully accomplish the organization’s targets and objectives. However, this is a considerable challenge to any organizations managers, due to the complexity of motivation and the fact that, there is no ready made solution or an answer to what motivates people to work well (Mullins,2002).
In today’s world, there are many reasons which have led to people getting a paid job. Amongst the various articles, many authors argued that money remains the main motivator underlying the reason why people work, since people need money to meet their basic needs and to ensure survival. According to Ramlall (2004) motivation can be defined as “the willingness to exert high levels of effort towards organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need.”
Management spends a huge amount of time to design incentive systems and schemes to motivate their workers and to ensure they work in their best possible manner. Motivating workers by giving them decent pay helps in winning employees heart to make the work done efficiently, significantly and effectively. The most effective way to motivate people to work productively is through individual incentive compensation (Pfeffer, 1998). An attraction of getting more is a powerful incentive to people for high performance. While most people agree that money plays a major role in motivating people, in organizations there is a widespread belief that money may also have some undesirable effects on morale.
Ever since the beginning of Organizational Psychology, work motivation has been a big topic of discussion and research. Based off of what I learned in class lectures, motivation is a complex force that drives people to behave in certain ways. Motivation is an effort expenditure that energizes, directs, and sustains, however, it is not the same thing as performance or ability. Over the course of this discussion, I have formed a variety of ideas about workplace motivation and have better equipped myself to define what I believe creates a motivated, productive, and engaged workforce. Looking at all of the different motivational theories, I believe Herzberg’s two-factor theory, job characteristics theory, the equity theory, the equity theory,
In conclusion, monetary incentives are indispensable in every organisations. They emphasize the desired results and motivate employees to achieve certain targets. As a motivator, monetary incentives exploit on fulfilling employees’ needs. However, monetary incentives can bring a number of disadvantages to a company, if it inappropriately applies the incentive
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