Question 1 .Once on the job. two business school graduates will probably vary in

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Question 1.Once on the job. two business school graduates will probably vary in their effectiveness in managing their respective work groups. While they are similar in background, education, age, etc., they probably differ in their psychological wherewithal to manage others. List and briefly describe the elements in the "motivationto manage." How does a person gain these useful skills and attitudes? See slide 21 and the chapter on training in the book--chapter 7.

Question 2. Money is important to all of us, either for job satisfaction or to our motivation. Under what conditions does money motivate? When should a company not use money to motivate? What kind of person is motivated by money? Are you motivated by money? The slides are very specific in providing help in answering these questions. See slide 15 and 16. Chapters 12 and 13 in the book may provide some background to some students.

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Principles Affecting The Proper Use ofPay a. High pay high satisfaction low impt. of pay b. Advice for managers; 1. 2. 3. Do not assume that pay is necesserily the most im portant factor to your subordinates. Do not fall preyto the frequently heard cry of social scientists that pay is about sixth in importance. Do assume that pay is about as important to people one level belowyou as it isto you and other managers at yniur level 4. Do look beyond economic complaints and demands on the part ofsubordnates to see if there are noneconom ic causes lurking in the back ground. 5. Do tie pey to performance and make it a fom of recognition if you want pay to be important enough to moti vate good job performance. 6. Do look at the backgrounds of people who are going to work on incentive jobs to see if you can identify those for whom pay is likelyto be important. Conditions needed for pay to motivate good job performance: 1. Employees must attach a high positive valence to pay. 2. Employees must believe that good performance does in fact lead to high pay. 3. Employees must believe that the quality of their job performance reflects to a large extend how hard they are trying. They must feel that they can control the quality of their job performance 4. Employees must see the positive outcomes tied to good performance as qreater than the neqative ones 5. Employees m ust see good job perform ance as the most attractive of all po ssible behaviors.

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Answer 1A:

List of elements of motivation to manage:

1. Favourable atitude towards authority: This element of motivation to manage expects from Manager's to have full control on their behaviourial skills. Manager's need to focus on how they treat their superiors? Do they professional respect for their superiors? Whether they practice unfair practices while working? Do they listen superiors for ther advices or suggestions? Do they consider's their contribution?

Managers ignoring above mentioned behaviour while working with superiors, would likely causing staff to pass negative comments or opinions and inviting problems to his profession.

2. Desire to Compete:

Managers need to keep in mind that while practicing managerial practice he/she need to be competative in terms of excelling his/her skills with respect to the peer. The competition should be healthy and should be focused on gaining knowledge and excellence in skill.

3. Assertive Motivation:

The fiundation of handling the managerial role is to have strong and firm management. The masculine is related to strong and confident view, opinion, clarity of thoughts and behaviour.

4. Desire to excercise power:

Manager should excercise his power towards his suboordinates in alignment with the organisational strategic objectives. Manager should not practice exhibition of power for self pride or satisfaction. This may lead to inviting serious implication on organisaitonal managerial governance.

5.Desire for distinctive position: Manager's visibility to group of people follow him or observe him, makes impact on thier minds. The manager should have ideas to engage people or interact people or involve people to take initiatives. This spreads positive messages of manager's distinctive position within the group and in the organisation.

6. Sense of Responsibility: A successful manager always try to be active and organised for the activities to be undertaken at personal as well as team level. His/her main focused should be to complete the work with the help of resources available. If manager's throwing the responsibilities to other and taking credit of sucess will not go long with the team and business.

Answer 1B:

If one is interested to work as Manager, he/she need to focus on gaining below given list of skills

1. Interpersonal Skills:

A manager should work on the following skills for the develop interpersonal skills.

a. Leadership skills b. Influencing skills c. effective decision making skills.

The objective of developing the interpersonal skills to build trust, resolve conflict, Active listening, Overcoming resistance to Change

2. Management skills:

To become manager, one need to have knowledge of the domain he/she is working, skills and awareness tools and techniques used in the management works.

The objective of achieving management skills are

a. Facilitate consensus b. Influence people c.Negotiate agreements d. Modify organisational behaviour.

Question 2 A:

No Money do not motivate everytime. When the employee has secured work profile and expected payment regularly then impact of money for motivating employee become less.

Question 2B:

Following are the conditions or situations where compnay should not pay for motivations

When the trust level is low, individual performance is difficult to measure, performance measured subjectively, indusive measures of perform, large pay rewards cannot be given to the best performers.

Question 2C:

Motivation achieved through money has limited influence on an Individual. Those people who say they motivate by money they feel saturated when they acheive it. Motivation is intrinsic. People feel motivated by money when they receive the pay off for their hard work.

Question 2D:

In earlier career of profession I was having wrong mindset about the earning money. I used to consdier the money is the ultimate truth for living life. However, when I grown in my career for the past 14 years, I experienced that I have always looked for challenging work. This is the instrinsic drive for me. If any one give me hansome salary and ask me to do nothing then I will be having no value of that money. I will get bored with this as I am not using my brain.

In summary I would say I consider money as the secondary motivator. The primary motivator is performance I achieved by working on the task.

Note: I would like to have your opinion and if you have any doubt in specific. I will be glad to help you.

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