Employee motivation is the level of energy, commitment, and creativity that a company's workers bring to their jobs. Whether the economy is growing or shrinking, finding ways to motivate employees is always a management concern. Competing theories stress either incentives or employee involvement (empowerment). An app for learning the employee motivations.

Introduction

Motivational techniques

Taylorism

Hawthorne effect

Job design

Rewards

Intrinsic rewards: Job Characteristics Model

Employee participation

Quality-of-work-life programs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Herzberg's two-factor theory

Vroom's expectancy theory

Locke's goal theory

Locke and Latham's five goal setting principles

Conclusion

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