Employee Motivation

Carl DunckerManagement Training

This article will hopefully shed light on the importance of keeping your employees motivated, and also provide you with different techniques of how you can boost morale and make individuals want to work for you. It is generally accepted that the more motivation employees have and the happier they are in their work then their levels of productivity will increase and the higher their standards of work will be. People differ on a personality dimension called locus of control, referring to which factors people believe influence their mood and behaviour. Depending on what your employee thinks, you should manufacture your approach appropriately. For example, soft sell strategies have logical appeals, emotional appeals, advice and praise. Alternatively, hard sell strategies involve …