Download or read book Motivating Public Employees written by Marc Esteve and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivates public employees to work hard? This Element systematically reviews answers from public administration research. The authors locate this research in a novel two-dimensional typology, which shows that public employees can be motivated for other- and self-interested reasons and extrinsic (motivated by outcomes) and intrinsic (motivated by work itself) reasons. Public administration research sheds significant light on extrinsic motivators: working hard to help society (public service motivation), one's organization (organizational commitment) and oneself (financial incentives). Future research should focus on hitherto understudied motivators: symbolic rewards and intrinsic motivators, such as enjoyable work tasks, warm glow, and relatedness with colleagues. Supplementary material for this Element is available online.
Download or read book Engaging Government Employees written by Robert Lavigna and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over three decades of experience in public sector HR, Bob Lavigna gives managers the tools they need to leverage the talents of government's most important resource: its people. You know firsthand that your government workers are not underworked, overpaid, or mindless clones just carrying out the morally compromised work that politicians forced through the pipeline. Besides having to daily overcome the persona of being a government employee, your hard-working employees face enormous pressures and challenges every day and are asked to solve some of our country’s toughest problems, including unemployment, security, poverty, and education. To be able to return to their desks daily with the passion and commitment required to accomplish these overwhelming duties will require a manager who knows how to leverage talent, improve performance, and inspire passion within these true servants. In Engaging Government Employees, you will learn: Why a highly engaged staff is 20 percent more productive How to get employees to deliver “discretionary effort” How to assess the level of engagement Why free pizza and Coke every Friday is not a viable strategy Engaging Government Employees rejects the typical one-size-fits-all approach to motivation. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence, this indispensable resource shows how America’s largest employer can apply the science of engagement to get team members passionate about the agency’s mission and committed to its success.
Download or read book Managing Government Employees written by Stewart Liff and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most dedicated, competent government managers can feel overwhelmed when it comes to motivating and managing their employees. And while they strive for excellence in themselves and in their team, many feel that stringent and convoluted regulations mean their hands are tied when it comes to developing their people. but the truth is that with the right strategies and skills, you can inspire superior performance from your employees - both consistently and effectively. Managing Government Employees offers dozens of techniques for meeting the challenges and stressful situations supervisors face on a daily basis. With the same award-winning tactics that he has learned and applied during his years as a manager in various government agencies, Stewart Liff provides the perfect antidote for managers frustrated by government bureaucracy.
Download or read book One More Time written by Frederick Herzberg and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine overseeing a workforce so motivated that employees relish more hours of work, shoulder more responsibility themselves; and favor challenging jobs over paychecks or bonuses. In One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? Frederick Herzberg shows managers how to shift from relying on extrinsic incentives to activating the real drivers of high performance: interesting, challenging work and the opportunity to continually achieve and grow into greater responsibility. The results? An ultramotivated workforce. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough management ideas-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers readers the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world-and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.
Download or read book Public Sector Employee Empowerment and Its Impact on Employee Motivation and Performance written by Rafi Nazarian and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the literature on employee empowerment in the public sector workplace, with careful attention to the fundamental theoretical assumptions of the body of work and the empirical research on public sector employee motivation and its impact on job performance. This paper highlights important research findings relating to the adverse impacts of economic approaches and financial rewards as motivating incentives for public sector employees in government jobs to be applied as an HRM practice. It further outlines the positive attributes of motivating public employees intrinsically. This study contributes to our understanding of the differences between public and private sector motivational strategies by demonstrating that, public sector employees are generally less extrinsically motivated. The current psychological research on employee motivation in the public sector developed in the literature review emphasizes on the importance of social cognitive theories and practices, such as the application of goal commitment and goal-setting theory, self-affirmation, P-O Fit theory, work autonomy, and transformational leadership as the most effective avenues for public administrators to empower and motivate government employees. Using an explanatory research design, the specific question this research aims to explore is whether or not employee empowerment programs are effective in terms of motivating employees and ultimately enhancing employee job performance in the City of Glendale.
Download or read book The Role of Motivation on Employee Performance in Public Organization A Case of Ministry of National Development Planning Hargeisa Somaliland written by Mumin Omar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, , course: Thesis, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of motivation on employee performance in public organization: a case of ministry of national development planning Hargeisa, Somaliland. This study guided by the following research questions. To determine the methods used by employers to motivate employees in the MoNDP, to know the extent that extrinsic motivation affects employees’ performance in the MoNDP, To examine how intrinsic motivation affect employees’ performance in the MoNDP, To identify how motivation link with employee work performance. This study adopted a descriptive research design. The population of the study was 90 employees’ of the MoNDP. A census sampling was done and so the 90 employees constituted the sample size. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The questionnaire was to administer by the researcher. The completed questionnaires were edited for completeness. The data were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) computer package. The data were interpreted using descriptive statistics through frequencies, percentages and correlation analysis. The findings were presented in the form of tables and figures. The study found out that the ministry uses many different tools to motivate its employees. These include; payments on time, employee rotation within the ministry and salary provision. However, the study also found out that NDP does not use provide fringe benefits to its employees. It was also found out that ministry doesn’t pay its workers according to the amount of work they have done also when employees meet targets ministry doesn’t provide bonuses the ministry does not carry out training of its employees. The study also found out that the organization does not make sure that that employee's work is challenging or involve them in decision making as a way of motivating them. The research results indicated that there is a positive correlation between motivation and work performance. This means that changes in one variable are strongly correlated with changes in the second variable. Pearson’s r is .440**. This number is very close to one. For this reason, we can conclude that there is a strong relationship between motivation and employee performance variables
Download or read book Motivation in Public Management written by James L. Perry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are public servants self-interested, or motivated by a sense of duty and commitment far above what we would expect given their often modest compensation and frequent public criticism? This book looks at research on this and related questions in assessing the current state of our scientific knowledge.
Download or read book The Public Sector Employee and the Motivation in Serving for the Greater Good of Humanity written by Nelly Sosa Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An individual who takes a career path in the public sector contributes to the purpose of organizing, enforcing and shepherding the agencies that administer the laws and regulations that give breath to the public organizations that exists. The existence of public administration is for public servants to fulfill the paramount responsibility for human lives, providing a care that will result in a positive impact to society. Whether the amount of responsibility is a small community, city, county, state or an entire country, public sector employees enter this field with some personal connection and value to public service ethos. Awareness that one can contribute for the greater good of society and get income from doing so can be both inspiring and rewarding. Public Service Motivation (PSM) is a fundamental element in public sector organizations. A gap in PSM literature exists in studying current motivation levels of public service employees in social service organizations. Welfare offices such as The Department of Public Social Services in Los Angeles County form part of the various branches of government organizations and can potentially provide fruitful data regarding PSM. Study of PSM within this organization will contribute and form part as another scholarly work in understanding motivation in government organizations. In addition, this study will provide public organizations an opportunity of self-reflection to discover what factors are needed to improve public organizations, motivating public servants for recruitment and retention purposes.
Download or read book Public Management and Performance written by Richard M. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling, the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need policing. In short, there is practically no area of our lives that isn't touched in some way by public services. As such, knowledge about strategies to improve their performance is central to the good of society. In this book, a group of leading scholars examine some of the most pressing issues in public administration, political science and public policy by undertaking a systematic review of the research literature on public management and the performance of public agencies. It is an important resource for public management researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who wish to understand the current state of the field and the challenges that lie ahead.
Download or read book The effect of the motivation of the employees on their perfmormance The Federal Public Procurement and Property Disposal Service written by Faiza Yimer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 2, Addis Ababa University, language: English, abstract: Motivation seems to be one of the most important tools of Human Resource Management. Organizations design motivation systems to encourage employees to perform in the most effective way but also to attract potential candidates. Employee motivation is a significant psychological aspect of management. To maximize the effort and performance of employees, there should be a mechanism of motivation. This study sought to investigate the effect of employees’ motivational factors on employee’s performance with special reference to federal Public procurement and property disposal service. This study was conducted based on the data gathered from employees of federal public procurement and property disposal service. This study adopted explanatory research design. The target population for this study was 177 employees of federal Public procurement and property disposal service. A census sampling was done and so the 123 employees constituted the sample size. A representative sample was drawn from this population using probabilistic sampling technique (simple random sampling) to select sample elements from the organization. The data collection tool was the questionnaires which contained closed ended Survey and face to-face interviews. Out of 123 questionnaires that have been distributed, all were usable. The mean value of the five point likert scale values of the dependent and various independent variables were taken as motivational factors which determine the performance of the employees. The analysis of the data was done with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and EViews. The research results found that Payment, promotion, Co-worker relation, supervision and Career development as major influencing factors for employee’s performance. Whereas responsiveness were found to have insignificant effect on employee’s performance in federal public procurement and property disposal service. The study recommended that to increase employees performance, organizations need to focus on modern pay package, having sound leadership, promotion of staffs, smooth co-worker relationship and plan and execute shorter and long term training.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Business black and White written by Stephen J. Skripak and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Black & White version) Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Download or read book Motivation and Performance written by Adrian Furnham and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes. Motivation and Performance challenges these notions, bringing together evidence that group differences are often exaggerated and that getting to the heart of what really motivates individuals is what's most important. This book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators - job security as well as the need for personal growth - to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover. Underpinned by original research, Motivation and Performance features case studies from finance, retail, the public and other sectors to show how the principles of motivating employees apply at all levels of the organization, not just at the leadership level, and how values and motivation can be changed and developed. Complete with a framework for conducting effective visits to front-line locations, it will help HR professionals ask the right questions, choose whether to implement external motivation-building programmes and make a real impact on an employee's desire to progress in the company.
Download or read book Motivating Public Sector Employees written by Bobby Scott Myers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance Budgeting written by M. Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theory and practice of performance budgeting, which aims make government more effective by linking the funding of government agencies to the results they deliver. Combining thematic studies and case studies, it clearly presents the diverse range of contemporary performance budgeting models and examines their effectiveness.
Download or read book Introduction to Business written by Lawrence J. Gitman and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intrinsic Motivation at Work written by Kenneth W. Thomas and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breakthrough book provides a comprehensive discussion of intrinsic motivation in the workplace--the psychological rewards workers get directly from the work itself.
Download or read book Shared Capitalism at Work written by Douglas L. Kruse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit sharing arrangements and gain-sharing bonuses, which tie compensation directly to a firm’s performance, also reflect this new attitude toward labor. Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes the effects of this trend on workers and firms. The contributors focus on four main areas: the fraction of firms that participate in shared capitalism programs in the United States and abroad, the factors that enable these firms to overcome classic free rider and risk problems, the effect of shared capitalism on firm performance, and the impact of shared capitalism on worker well-being. This volume provides essential studies for understanding the increasingly important role of shared capitalism in the modern workplace.
