Soft skill is actually a personal attributes that express your ability to interact with other people or so called interpersonal skill. A soft skill is complement to hard skill (technical skill) - which are a technical knowledge on a job.
As to resolve the Monier Group crisis, Mr. Annand, eastern regional manager firstly shall be sent for soft skill training in order for him to have a good relationship with subordinate. Indeed, Mr. Annand may possess with handful technical skill (hard skill) from he what learned during the time of sales executive. However, a manager has a different roles & reasonability to play a part in planning strategy, coordinating, organizing the business / sales activity. Therefore, the soft skill will be appeared to be
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Annand can switch his leadership style from time to time based on target & circumstances in building member trust and satisfaction which strengthen group cohesiveness. Trust given from team members enhances the loyalty of employees toward the company.
3.3 Motivation
Motivation is generally correlated with productivity of employee. In other means, an employee is more productive when they are motivated by their individual needs. Manager must well understand & aware of their employee’s personal motivation as motivation factors is vary for each employees. It is crucial for a manager to maintain high morale among the employees.
In order to ensure employees perform effectively towards section / organizational objectives, manager must familiar with theories and application of motivation to assist in motivating employees. Top performance is link to motivation, while people are motivated in different ways. Each person has their different degrees of frustration factors and look for different outcome from doing the same task. It is not an easy task to understand behavior of human. Motivation is include the needs, desires, drives, motives, and their ultimate goal. Figure 2 below shows the relationship among these and some other obstacles from realizing the goal. Motivation is internal force that directs a person to satisfy his needs and
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One of the traditional concept has been found useful in motivation theory understanding is the human needs. All human behavior, no matter in conscious or unconscious level, is affected by a person’s needs or desire. Hence, a person who is motivated on doing something is because of his / her needs and wants.
The theory of motivation can be explained in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, as figure 3.
According to psychologist, Abraham Maslow believed the levels of needs to motivate people can divide into five separate categories that are physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs. Maslow believed that human will firstly fulfill the basic needs that is physiological needs and safety needs, only continue satisfy the higher ranking needs such as the esteem and self-actualization needs.
1) physiological needs
- basic needs such as food, clothe, water, air, shelter to maintain physiological well being
2) Safety or security needs
- Person’s needs for financial security and protection from any illness , layoff
- retirement plan for employee age of forties and fifties,
People have long considered general theories of motivation, and the question regarding the specific motives that direct and energize our human behavior has undergone tremendous speculation. To this day the question still stands: what is it that humans seek most in life? In an effort to answer this question, Abraham Maslow proposed what he called the hierarchy of needs. Maslow theorizes that human beings are motivated to fulfill this hierarchy, which consists of needs ranging from those that are basic for survival up to those that promote growth and self-enhancement (Kassin 300).
What is motivation? According to text, motivation is defined as a set of factors that activate, direct, and maintain behavior, usually toward a certain goal. Motivation is the energy that makes us do things: this is a result of our individual needs being satisfied so that we have inspiration to complete the mission. These needs vary from person to person as everybody has their individual needs to motivate themselves. Depending on how motivated we are, it may further determine the effort we put into our work and therefore increase the standard of the productivity. There have been a wide variety of theories about motivation developed over the years. Several are drive-reduction theory, arousal theory, psychosocial (both incentive and cognitive) theory, and Maslow’s H...
Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled, a person seeks to fulfil the next one, and so on. The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow's (1943, 1954) hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
Abraham Maslow (1943,1954) stressed that motivation is the key to understand of human behaviour. It comprising of five motivational needs, often depicted as hierarchy level within a pyramid namely physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs. Maslow emphasized that each individual should sustain or meet the lower level basic needs before the individual desire the second or moving on the highest level. He claimed that motivation is essential as it helps in self-development in achieving one’s personal goal and leading to satisfaction. Humanism emphasizes on the freedom, dignity and potential
Maslow’s theory implies that before one can be intrinsically motivated we must first satisfy some more basic human needs. These include physiological needs (ensure our physical survival), safety need (bringing safety and security to our lives), social needs (love, affection, acceptance), Esteem needs (self respect) and need for self – actualization (individual being) (Neher, 1991)
Soft skills are personality traits that relate to a person’s emotional intelligence. These traits are show how a person connects with other people. If a business deals with face-to-face interaction with their clients, soft skills are what makes the business successful. This is why more and more companies are screening for soft skills when they are interviewing potential employees. Soft skills are becoming more and more important to the
Research has shown that motivation in an employee is an important factor which determines his performance. Motivation is the “driving force within individuals” (Mullins, 2007, p. 285). It is the concerned with finding out the reasons which shape and direct the behaviour of the individuals. The people act to achieve something so that they can satisfy some needs (Gitman and Daniel, 2008). It is important for the manager to understand this motivation of individual employees in order to inspire them and devise an appropriate set of incentives and rewards which would satisfy the needs that they have individually (Kerr, 2003). Once these needs are expected to be met in return for some specific behaviour or action, they would work more diligently to have that behaviour in them and to achieve that objective (Meyer and Hersovitch, 2001). Since it would lead to early and fuller achievement of the company objectives as the individual would work more diligently, it would lead to better organizational performance (Wiley, 1997).
Employee motivation has always been a central problem in the workplace, and, as an individual in a supervisory position, it becomes one’s duty to understand and institute systems that ensure the proper motivation of your subordinates. Proper motivation of employees can ensure high productivity and successful workflow, while low worker motivation can result in absenteeism, decreased productivity rates, and turnover. A large body of research has been produced regarding motivation, and much of this research is applicable to the workplace. Due to the nature of man, motivation varies from individual to individual, and, because of this, there is no one system that is the best for ensuring worker motivation in every organizational situation, and, as a product, many theories have been created to outline what drives people to satisfactorily complete their work tasks. Throughout the course of this document, the three main types of these motivational theories will be outlined and examples of each, as well as how these theories can be used to further strengthen and sustain worker motivation....
Theories of motivation consists two parts. Content and process motivation theories. Content motivation theories focuses mainly on people needs and explains why people have different needs at different times. Content theories of motivation treated as a need or desire, to act for the sake of promoting a certain goal. One most prominent theorist Abraham Maslow (1943) proposed the hierarchy of needs. It states that all the needs of the people can be divided into five categories, aligned incentive effect in descending order: (psychological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization needs). Psychological are the basic needs to survive, e.g. food, clothes, shelter, warmth, sleep, etc. Safety are the needs like security, stability, freedom from fear, etc. Social needs are the feelings of belongingness, acceptance, being part
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).
This paper explores the significance of soft skills in learners’ life; their achievements in terms of academic excellence and professional success. No doubt academic or technical knowledge, generally termed as hard skills, are prerequisites for employment. Yet soft skills, which comprise a long list of interpersonal skills and individual abilities, complement the academic knowledge and thus contribute greatly to enhance the employability of the students. This paper makes an earnest appeal to all those involved actively in the policy making, curricula designing, teaching and evaluation processes to acknowledge the need for soft skills in enhancing the employability of the students.
Soft skills are defined to be personal qualities that help someone connect with others in their environment. These skills are more difficult to learn because there is no actual way to measure someone having them. Instead, success is based off of how people connect with others around them whether it be family, friends, or a stranger. If someone would like to learn and acquire soft skills, there are a few options: take a class, seek a mentor, or volunteer. It is valuable that you not only tell future employers about your skills, but to show them.
Motivation, as defined in class, is the energy and commitment a person is prepared to dedicate to a task. In most of organisations, motivation is one of the most troublesome problems. Motivation is about the intensity, direction and persistence of reaching a goal. During the class, we have learned a substantial theories of motivation and many theories of motivations are used in real business. Each theory seems to have different basic values. But, they all have been analysed for one reason, recognising what motivates and increases the performance of employees. Ident...
Soft skills are defined as skills, abilities, and traits that pertain to personality, attitude, and behavior rather than to formal or technical knowledge (Moss & Tilly, 1996). They are also referred to character traits that characterize a person’s relationship with other people (“Soft Skill,” 2010), considered as a complement to hard skills, which are specific talents and expertise an individual possesses. Specifically, soft skills encompass the characters that decide how well one interacts with others. While hard skills can be learned and perfected over time, soft skills are more difficult to acquire and change.
Soft skills are something that everyone has whether they are strong or weak, it is up to us to make sure they are as strong as we want them. For the career field, it is important for us to have certain skills to be able to do our job effectively. Since every career has a different set of skills it requires, we need to research which skills the career requires. We will then be able to strength those skills for our chosen career so we can do our best in our work. In the coming passages, I will go into detail what soft skills I currently have, which ones I am lacking, how I’ll matriculate these skills, and how I will use them to be prosperous in the career that I want by embracing my goals.