ORGANISATIONS AND BEHAVIOUR

Organisations and Behaviour: The Motivation at McDonalds

Executive Summary

The paper discusses how to motivate employees during work. Thus, in this paper I was assigned the task to be an operational manager at McDonalds, and to try to share my strategies for motivating employees. It is fact that motivation of the employees is the factor that leads an organization to success; if employee is motivated then definitely he remains satisfy with his job and develop himself more and more that is in the end beneficial for the organization. Motivation is the process by which an individual's efforts are energized, directed and sustained towards achieving a particular goal. The process of motivating the employees tends to begin with the mere recognition that in order to perform at their optimum level, employees must be provided with an environment that best meets their basic emotional needs and the drives to not only acquire but also bond, comprehend, and defend.

Table of Content

Executive Summary2

Introduction5

Task 16

Discussion and Analysis6

Steps to be taken7

Problem statement7

Task 29

Company Profile9

Labour Force9

Aims and Objectives10

Task 312

Theoretical Approaches12

Reinforcement Theory: A Non-Cognitive Theory of Motivation12

Financial Rewards and Employee Benefits13

Patterns of Human Behavior14

Goals14

Expectations15

Levels of Motivation15

Kirkpatrick's model16

Effective results17

Motivating Employee17

Task 419

Listening to Employees19

Handling Stressful Situations19

Stress Policies Best Practice20

Impact on Technology for Teamwork Functioning21

How are teams being organized?21

Motivation and upbringing of an effective team22

Purpose22

Strategic Change Management22

Factors That Influences Employees Motivation23

Personality24

Social Influence25

Environmental Factors25

Nature of the Work25

Adaptation26

Self Evaluation27

Conclusion28

References30

Organisations and Behavior: The Motivation at McDonalds

Introduction

For most organizations, employees are their most valuable resource. The employees are usually the ones in charge of accomplishing the company's objectives (Robbins & DeCenzo, 2010). The success of an organization is generally determined by the commitment and abilities of its work force. Employees are the backbone of the industry. Therefore, employee's behavior and culture has to be managed well in the organization.

Organization behavior is the vast field that includes sociology, psychology, management and the communication and interactions among the workforces. The basic purpose of any organization is to be successful and earn maximum profits and this will only be achievable if the human resource is giving 100 % output to the organization, this will only be achieve when the human resource work with full motivation ,interest ,hard work and satisfaction, the organizational behavior studies the rapid changes in the corporate cultures and managers are giving more attention on the reactions ,attitudes of the employees because the core secret behind the success of any organization is their human resource, in today's competitive world the understanding the organizational behavior is very vital tool for the efficient team management (Locke, 2011, 991-1009)

Task 1

The paper has been divided into 4 parts, task 1 is to give an overview of the topic we are about to present in the paper. It includes the pattern in which different task has been attempted. Thus, it includes the steps and the major problem that is taken under consideration.

Discussion and Analysis

I am a trainer in McDonalds, and my main job is to motivate the employees for better result and progress of the ...