A successful organization

A successful organization

Introduction

In the current world, most of the organizations are trying to be successful even though the business environment is very competitive. Irrespective of the size of the companies, most of the companies are sincerely striving to ensure that they are retaining most of their best employees by ensuring that they are acknowledged because of the vital roles and the impact on the organization’s effectiveness. Therefore, it is essential that companies are supposed to ensure that they have created a strong and positive relationship with the employees and be able to give them direction in order to fulfill their responsibilities (Baporikar, 2018). For the employees to be able to achieve their goals and objectives, most of the organizations are supposed to ensure that they have developed better strategies that will enable their employees to compete in these competitive markets and, at the same time, can increase their performance.  This assignment aims to explain perception, attitudes, motivation, and team working theories topics as part of the management qualification and analyze the situation of Simon and explain the positive measures that are supposed to be implemented in order to re-motivate Simon who has been working for a given organization for a period of 12 years and has failed to be promoted.

Perception part of management qualification

Perception theory is one of the vital topics which can help as part of the management qualification. Perception is considered to be the way that we are using to recognize and interpret important information that we are gathering through our senses. A team leader of the organization should be able to use the theory of perception in order to recognize the information and interpret it wisely. For the case of Simon, the team leader hard him saying that he has lost hope because there is no future for him to advance in the organization based on the promotion failures he has gone through (Bravo, Catalán,& Pina, 2019). As a team leader, it is vital to be aware of some of your perceptual shortcuts and biases and try always not to jump into conclusion, which may cause dangerous impacts to the organization. Jumping into a conclusion about given information in the organization from about a particular employee may lower the performance of that organization because it may lead to the sacking of the employee or demoralizing the employee, putting the organization at stake.

Most people are prone to biases and errors when they view themselves, and this majorly depends on the personality of an individual. The majority are going through the challenge of the self-advancement bias because they either underestimate or overestimate their performance within the organization. This makes most of the people to be able to see themselves on the positive light or negative side, and this may cause people to make errors within the organization. Simon did not see himself as if he could make it to the next level because he had developed such perception. For example, in the organization, most of the people who are suffering from the challenge of extreme levels of the self-enhancement cannot understand the reason as to why they are not rewarded or promoted to the next level. On the other side, there are employees within the organization who are self-efface, and in most cases, they are projecting low confidence, and this makes them blame themselves for common failures to get to another level within the organization. Therefore, the case of Simon is that he has projected self-efface because he cannot gather the courage to move to the next level during his interviews as much as he is experienced and delivers to the satisfaction of the organization (Gagné, Deci, & Ryan, 2018).

Attitudes part of the management qualification

Some of the employees are effective in the organization, like for the cases of Simon, who has been very instrumental to his organization because of his attitude that he has been having in the company. Always when an employee is performing well in the organization, there must be some of the factors that are promoting such hard work; for instance, the employee may be intelligent, may be highly skilled and well trained. The most significant factor that motivates most of the employees to perform well is the attitude; attitude is essential aspects when it comes to performance within the organization because even the most talented and skilled employees may perform poorly because of the attitude that they have towards their tasks (Józsa & Vinogradov, 2017). Employees who have developed a positive attitude and are dedicated and, at the same time they are committed to their duties are able to move to a high level within the organization as much as they might not be talented and skilled at the same time. Therefore, it is vital that organizations should work hard to ensure that employees are given the opportunity to develop the best attitude within the organization.

It has been recognized that employees who are having a positive attitude are productive to the organization, and they play an instrumental role in the organization. One of the factors which are very instrumental to the attitude of the employees is job satisfaction.  Employees who are enjoying their work are feeling confident in their tasks, and they end up succeeding in most of the assignments they have been allocated to in the organization; hence they appreciate their role because of their positive attitude. For instance, Simon was having a positive attitude towards his job, and that is what makes him deliver a satisfying job to the organization, and he was also committed to his task as a line manager in the organization( Kieu & Liu, 2018).

When the organization has focused more on job satisfaction, it will have its priorities influenced from the very early stage, especially when interacting with the employees. Therefore, the organization is supposed to ensure that the employees are having the value, which makes them fit the job (Korff, Biemann & Voelpel, 2017). For, example when an organization is looking for the people to hire it is supposed to consider the interest of the employees not just considering the talents and skills because one might find it challenging to work in the field that he or she is not interested in and therefore, he will not be productive to the company. It is essential to ask the applicant on the role that they are interested in because that will help the company to succeed in its performance and it will also make the company productive as compared to when an applicant is hired and does not have an attitude towards his or her role in the organization.

Most of the careful management will ensure that they are practicing and keeping an eye on the development and interest of the employees. In most cases, as the team members are growing in their skills and interest, it is vital that a policy is developed by the organization to help in providing avenues that will create space for the employees to be able to pursue some of the courses that will excitement on them. This will ensure that their attitude is motivated, and they become committed to their work and thus help the organization to become productive. Therefore, the organization should have a well-established strategy that will help to keep most of the employees motivated and committed in order to deliver to their satisfaction (Meadows & Black, 2018).

Motivation part of management qualification

Motivation is considered to be a positive state of emotion, which is results from the appraisal of the experience concerning an individual job. This, therefore, helps to explain how one may be attached emotionally towards his job or her job. Motivation is a cognitive decision making which is having the intention to ensure that a particular behavior aimed at is achieved based on a given goal through the process of monitoring and initiation. In most case, employers are doing reviews to their employees by the use of the appraisal, which is having predetermined standards which are supposed to be met by the employee (Rawashdeh, 2018). The outcome of the measures at times may end up provoking the emotions of the employee, which will play the role of determining whether the employee is dissatisfied or satisfied. When the employee receives good remarks from his or her employer, the employee will be satisfied and vise versa. Therefore, motivation maybe because of outside factors such as rewards or intrinsic factors such as an employee’s desire to be better.

There are several factors which are influencing employees’ motivation, one of the factors include the salary. In most cases, every employee wants to earn a reasonable salary, and when the organization is able to pay the employees reasonable salary, they will feel motivated because financial rewards to the employees are playing a vital role to maintain them motivated and the result is high performance especially employees from the production companies. It is, therefore, important that employees get great pay because that will help to satisfy their needs and keep them committed to their roles. There are also some of the essential factors that can influence the motivation of the worker, for instance, rewards in terms of promotion based on performance, social recognition, and performance feedback. Employees will always feel better when they are recognized and rewarded; hence that will keep them motivated and increase their level of performance within the organization (Thursfield, 2017).

Theoretical approaches to motivation

There are several theoretical approaches to motivational theory and how they are related to the dissatisfaction of the employees and disillusionment. One of the motivational theory approaches is the two-factor theory, which helps us to realize that what may cause satisfaction and dissatisfaction to the employees. According to the two-factor theory, most job dissatisfaction is caused by the hygiene factors, which include the policy of the company, supervision, salary, working condition, the security of the job, and the safety of the employees. Therefore, such situations are likely to cause dissatisfaction to the employees, and thus they will be not motivated to deliver to their best ( Kieu & Liu, 2018). It is vital for the working environment to be improved for most of the workers to be satisfied when working in an organization. A motivator is also a factor that inside to the job, and they include the achievements, interesting works, recognition increased responsibility, and opportunities. Motivators are considered to be conditions that are honestly persuading workers to try and work hard, and therefore, if those conditions are lenient, then the employees may not be motivated, and they end up getting dissatisfied with their job.

Acquired need theory of motivation is helping us to understand that people are able to acquire three classifications of needs, which is a result of the experience of life. One of these needs is the need for achievement, the affliction need, and the need for power.  Everyone is considered to have these needs, and in most cases, the dominant need will help in driving the behavior of the employee. The need for achievement pushes people to be successful, while the need for affliction makes one be liked and accepted by others, and those with the need for power want to influence others and control their environment.  If an employee does not feel accepted and in most of the cases are not recognized as an achiever, then they feel dissatisfied with their jobs, and this does not motivate them (Rawashdeh, 2018).

Managers of organizations should be able to ensure that they have created a good working environment in order to motivate them to work hard. All managers should ensure proper and mature supervision, hygiene of the working environment, the security of the employees should also be well provided, and the safety of their jobs. Any manager that wants to influence the employee through his or her power may end up demoralizing most of the employees, and this will not make the employees to perform their ability. It is, therefore, important that managers should be able to apply the motivational theories to the workers in order to help them get satisfied with their jobs in the organization.

Team working part of management qualification

Teamwork is helping by parlaying an important in making most of the businesses to thrive and become successful. It involves a group of people who have come together to work with a common goal to achieve, and each member contributes to the project. Every organization uses teamwork techniques to teach employees on the team building to help in the process of improving the work management.  Most of the production teams are playing the role of helping to build businesses that are effective and creative. Organizations that are majorly focusing on the production of high levels are always studying teams and their interpersonal interaction with the aim of making changes and ensure that productivity is improved.   Therefore, teamwork helps the employees to be able to interact and, at the same share their skills in order to ensure that the productivity of the organization has been improved to achieve the goal of the organization. Individuals involved in the teamwork are able to adopt new skills from their colleagues, and this makes them work to their best within the organization and makes the organization to achieve their goals through quality service provision and high quality of product production (Józsa & Vinogradov, 2017).

Positive measures implemented to re-motivate the employee

Some of the positive steps that the organizations  Simon has been working for can employ in order to re-motivate him include creating training opportunities and making him attend workshops. Through giving opportunities to get new training and attending seminars will help Simon to learn the new skills which are in the market, and this will help him to compete with the rest of the applicant since the company values him because of his experience and performance. The other means of motivating him is to increase his salary, as much as Simon has failed three times and feels that there is no future advancement for him in the organization, raising his salary could be one of the best ways to motivate him based on his experience and the positive attitude he has towards his work (Thursfield, 2017). Social recognition is also one of the best ways of motivating Simon in his work, and this will make him feel important to the organization. Another aspect of motivating him is to reward him, most of the employees are feeling comfortable when they are rewarded based on their performance and the fact being that he has worked for 12 years he deserves a great reward from the company.

Conclusion

Every organization is trying, by all means, to ensure that they become a successful organization as much as the market might be very competitive. Therefore, it is vital for the organization to look at the aspects of employee’s perception, motivation, attitude, and teamwork because if all these factors are considered well in the organization, then that organization will thrive. Every organization should ensure that employees are motivated using the right procedure and ensure that they keep their attitude positive by all costs because failure to do that, then the organization may not have effective production. It is also vital that the organizations should observe the team working techniques within the organization because this will help in contributing to the success of the company through learning new skills and become goal-oriented (Rawashdeh, 2018).

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