Bachelor of Applied Management

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BACHELOR OF APPLIED MANAGEMENT
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11-28-2018

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Contents
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Question and Answers
1.1
Simunovich Olive Estate limited is a company that is producing olives in a large
area, and are producing extra virgin olive oil, and beauty skincare ranges of products. In
order to motivate employees to perform up to their efficiency, one of the suitable theory
is Herzberg two-factor motivational theory (Brenner, 2015).
Frederick Herzberg propounded two-factor motivational theory. According to this theory,
there are two main factors, which are responsible for the motivation of an individual to
perform in an organization
 Hygiene factors- these factors are the basic requirement without, which working
is not possible in an organization. For example, organizational positive culture,
basic facilities, and a base salary, security in the job, overtime payment, and
leaves. Moreover, working conditions play an important role in these factors.
These are the factors responsible for dissatisfaction, and unhappy individual, if
not available. These factors are required to ensure if employees are not
dissatisfied
 Motivational factors- these factors are those, which are responsible for the
improvement of work by the employees of the company. For example, rewards in
form of incentives, and recognition. Incentives can be in form of a bonus that is
the financial incentives. Some are non-financial incentives like a holiday, an
award in the meeting, recognition publically. These factors are responsible for the
enhancement of satisfaction of employees and work beyond their expectation.
These factors are required to ensure if an individual contributing to the
organization is satisfied with the organization. Both factors are important to make
human resource work well for the organization (tankonyvtar, 2018).
1.2
McClelland Need for affiliation, achievement, and power theory is another theory of
motivation that is suitable for “Simunovich Olive Estate limited.” This theory is built upon
the concept stated by Maslow’s with some up gradation. This theory is also known as

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“Learned Needs Theory.” As per this theory, three major motivating factors are
responsible for performance improvement of employees in the organization.
 Achievement- this factor is needed to accomplish pertains to an individual need
for mastering of skills, significant success, higher standards. External and
internal drivers influence these needs. If an individual has low achievement need,
this means that the person is not willing to take risk of failure and is not influence
to take up the difficulty and wish to avoid risk. Moreover, if a person is high
achievement need, then they are willing to take risk of failure but want to work for
difficult and challenging things and choose the optimal task.
 Affiliation- these motivating factors are considered by some individual, this
include need for belonging, relatedness, and love. These individual have a need
for friendship, a belong to social group, love, kindness, and friendly environment
to work for. These people need more of warm interpersonal relationship. In order
to motivate such people, the best way is to prove support and security in the
organization.
 Power- this factor of motivation is needed to have control over others. This
includes an individual with a strong need to succeed in their opinion, control, and
influence others. These are willing to lead a team and do work to increase
productivity (Craig & Dibrell, 2014).