Organizational Behavior

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Employee motivation is intrinsically tied to employee engagement, which managers are paying special
attention to these days, and for good reason. If an employee is motivated to do a given activity, they
are more likely to be engaged while doing so. As explained in book a good paycheck and benefits
certainly matter to employees but a recognition and appreciation of work is what makes them happy
and engaged at work.
I have seen my director in our biweekly meetings always focused important activities happened on
project and he used to focus on recognition and appreciation of engineers. He focused on 3 factors,
Name of person, Details of his action and how they helped the project and try to deliver praise in
timely fashion. I have seen all teammates always has good prospective about our director not only
because his praise but he used to work with engineers directly on some critical issues, guide them
based on his experience, he was real Gem I have seen in my 10 years of career.
As a program manager I work with many application engineers as well as cross functional teams
members where I wanted to keep engineers and designers motivated with project to launch
successfully. I learnt a good thing from previous program manager that “ Always carefully monitor the
amount of attention and direction with team members. Do not micromanage much that it becomes
motivation killer but at the same time not paying enough attention will also be demotivating.
Moving Motivator Cards
I like the idea of moving motivator cards. The Moving Motivators technique is totally focused on team
members' intrinsic motivation and how it affects organizational change. It forces us to pause and
consider what is truly important to us. What will get me moving faster? Why do I get out of bed every
day?
I would certainly use this tool with my team mates where I can understand what are the things
motivates team, what are team members expectations, how leadership can fulfil their expectations and
how decision impacts teams motivation. I like the lego video mentioned on moodle as well it gives
similar idea. It changed my prospective about motivation towards my work. I started thinking where I
can fit in those categories.

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Disc Study
I remember few years back my director ran DISC study to understand engineers behaviors pattern. He
shared results with all managers so that mangers can learn from disc profile what needs to be done
while working with the engineers. Also all managers asked to discuss the disc profile with engineers in
one on one and try to learn their expectations. This where we started Development action plan which
helped to gage each engineers progress as well as understand where are the difficulties they are facing
and help them to grow.