The simplest reason that why people work, it is because money, they want to earn money thus they work, the more they are paid, the more they are motivated. Payment systems are the way a business use as a motivation for their workers.
- Wages and Salaries - it is given to the employees end of the month according to the pay of per hour worked.
- Piece-rate - pay by the piece of items the workers produce
- Fringe Benefits - addition benefits that is not money such as company cars or phones, insurance, free meals.
- Performance-related pay - pay based on performance, there are usually targets for workers to reach
- Profit-sharing - workers receive company's profits
- Share ownership - shareholders receive bonus
Non-Financial Rewards
Provide with non-financial reward just to satisfy the workers.
- Job enlargement - involve the addition of extra, similar, tasks to a job
- Job enrichment - new sources of job satisfaction by increasing the level of responsibility of the employee are added
- Job rotation - changing jobs of the workers to let them gain experiences and learn variety of skills
- Empowerment - power and authority is given to the workers to perform designated tasks
- Teamwork - working with a group of people to achieve the goal required
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Basic needs and growth needs are divided five stage model. The lower basic needs need to be satisfied first before meeting the higher level.
- Physiological needs
- Safety needs
- Social belong needs
- Esteem needs
- Self-Actualization needs
How does Google motivate their employees?
Ever wonder why Google has been ranked number 1 in fortune's latest annual list of "100 Best Companies to Work For"?
People want to work in Google is also led to the fact that they are too motivated. Medical and dental facilities, valet parking, oil change and bike repair, free washers and dryers, and free breakfast, lunch and dinner on the Mountain View campus, these facilities are sounded so far apart from work. However, you can get all these unique facilities in Google company as fringe benefits. Hearing such things has already made you dying to work at there.
Google believes that many people are not motivated by pay incentives alone, thus they provide such amazing benefits. More than the extrinsic reward, people who choose to come to Google, come for other reasons besides just the outward perks and rewards. They come for freedom.
When you feel like working there which means you are motivated. This is what Google wanted their employees to be. Google motivates them by providing them such awesome facilities, "to create the happiest, most productive workplace in the world", said Jordan Newman, a Google spokesman.
"Google wants people to be comfortable when they work, and wants people to be able to work the way they want to. As long as they are happy and they are making other people happy."
Google has also motivated their employees started from the lowest level needs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs which is psychological needs. Some practical examples that Google provides to motivate their employees are to allow them to take off time to spend with their family.
My opinion:
I think Google has used the best ways to motivate their employees because of the benefits it can provide. It is true that people come to work for freedom and Google knows what we want. Google provides what other companies can hardly provide. It makes us want to work, feel motivated, never get bored and give out best while working. It does not focus on giving benefits such as money because that is what other companies do. Mostly other companies only provide money to the workers and it causes that employees only work for money, they do not feel happy, the quality of work that do may not be good because they are not motivated. Where Google is different, the things that they provide make them happy, they feel like continue working in Google and provide their best in work because they like what they are doing. And this is what motivation really are.
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