Motivating Workers discusses various factors that motivate employees, including financial and non-financial rewards. Financial rewards include wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, and profit sharing. Non-financial rewards include perks like company vehicles, discounts, health care, and pensions. The document also discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and how job satisfaction is derived from feeling a sense of achievement in one's work. A variety of methods can be used to motivate employees at different levels, including job rotation, job enlargement, and recognition.

1. Motivating Workers
Rowan E Wagner
Business Studies
Baku Oxford School

2. WHY WORK?
Money
To pay for necessities
and some luxuries
Security
A sense of security, i.e. knowing
that your job and pay are safe –
you are not likely to loss your job
Social needs (affiliation)
Feeling part of a group or
organisation, meeting people,
making friends at work Esteem needs
(self-importance)
Feeling important,
feeling that the job
you do is important
Job satisfaction
Enjoyment is derived
from feeling that you
have done a good job

3. MOTIVATION
Is the reason why
employees want to
work hard and work
effectively for the
business

4. F.W Taylor

5. Maslow

6. Hertzberg

7. Methods of Financial Reward
METHODS OF PAYMENT
performance-related pay commission bonus
wages
piece rate time rate
profit sharing
share ownership
salaries

8. Non-financial Rewards/Motivators
• Sometimes called perks or fringe benefits
• Company vehicle (car)
• Discounts on the firm’s products
• Health care paid for
• Children’s education fees paid
• Free accommodation
• Expense accounts (for food and clothing)
• Pensions
• Free trips abroad/holidays

9. Job Satisfaction
• Is the enjoyment
derived from
feeling that you
have done a good
job.

10. Job Rotation
• Involves workers
swapping round and
doing each specific task
for only a limited time
and then changing
round again.

11. Job Enlargement/Enrichment

12. Summary: Motivating Factors at all Levels
• Holidays
• Prestige and recognition
• Chance to use creativity
• Chance to take
responsibility
• Independence
• Chance for promotion
• Tasks which provides a
sense of achievement
• Fringe benefits
• Reasonable level of pay
• Clean and safe
environment
• Job security
• Working with
colleagues who are
friendly
• Interesting and
simulating tasks