This is a collection that contains several links to web pages delving into the challenge of bolstering employee motivation and offering ways to build employee motivation. The material offered can be used as a roadmap to motivation at work and also as thought generation on how to motivate employees when a motivation program is absent or lacking. This can easily be used for management instructors to either assign articles to students, or to use relevant information in class.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
Can be used as homework assignments
Can be used for group discussion
Can be used by instructor to cupplement lecture
Technical Requirements:
Worked on the following Operating Systems: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 Mac OSX 10.6+ Linux Ubuntu 12+ iOS 8+ (in browser) Chrome 31+ Firefox 35+ Internet Explorer 11+ Microsoft Edge iOS Safari 8.3+
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The usr will learn to identify ways to create motivation through:
1. Employee engagement
2. Employee recognition
3. Employee retention
4. Utilizing managerial staff
5. Employee surveys
6. Success recognition
7. Humor and inspiration
8. Motivation specifics
9. Celebrating holidays at work
Target Student Population:
Undergraduate management classes
Could be used by companies for training managers
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
General knowledge of management and organizational behavior would be helpful
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Has application to business and real-life situations
Includes process for making ethical employee motivation decisions
Scenarios are engaging – could promote good discussions to determine which tactics should be used
Information is realistic
Articles are current and up-to-date
Concerns:
This is a commercial site, so pop-ups could distract students
Articles are written by one person, a management consultant
No references are provided for facts, so reliability is questioned
The layout and amount of information crammed into a single web page can make for a confusing, over-marketed appearance.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
There is a lot of relevant information offered
Would be quite easy to construct rubrics, learning objectives, goals, etc. for use in an education setting or corporate training environment.
Excellent self-teaching tool, great to support faculty lessons and provide examples.
There are links to additional articles
Concerns:
Instructor will have to develop lesson plan and assignment of articles
No references for facts, etc. since it is a commercial site
Ads could distract students
Lots of underlined links that take students elsewhere, so may lose them
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
This topic is not only relevant and needed but the manner in which it is presented make it very easy to utilize.
The information is rather engaging, all links works, and the ease of use with about.com in general is a plus for this particular topic.
Very easy to use. Simply point and click the articles/topics of interest.
Concerns:
Articles don't open in new window, so have to use backspace to return to page
Creative Commons:
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