Organizational Behavior and Management: Assignment

Article critique 1
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND MANAGEMENT
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Article critique 2
Introduction...................................................................................................................3
Thesis statement and research question........................................................................3
Article strength.............................................................................................................3-4
Article weakness...........................................................................................................4
Critical reflection...........................................................................................................4-6
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................6
Reference.......................................................................................................................7-8

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Introduction
Organizational efficiency is a much sought after stage by organization and yet it’s an
understudied driver of organizational success. Every organization strives to hire employees
with optimum competencies; still many fail (Guclu and Guney, 2017). It is recognized that
employee motivation has a direct relationship with the employee productivity and
organizational innovation (Tomar and Sharma, 2013). Even as HR department in the
organizations acts as a connecting link between the employees and the organization, they
alone are not responsible for motivating employees (Tomar and Sharma, 2013). As per a
review conducted by Trever et al. (2015), within an organization, a number of subsets exist.
These individually and collectively impact the interaction and engagement of the
stakeholders. The complexity of the variables impacting the employee engagement in the
organizations continues to rise. This creates a need to study the role of the managers in the
employee motivation. Through the present framework, the article, “The Effect of the
Motivation Techniques Used by Managers to Increase the Productivity of their Workers and
an Application”, by Guclu and Guney (2017) is critiqued. The relevance of the article in light
of the increased workplace diversity, globalization, and variation in the motivational
techniques at the workplace is recognized and critically analysed.
Thesis statement and research question
The study is based on the "Maslow’ hierarchy of needs model" where it is countered
that the level of motivation is directly related to the need of the individual. The study reflects
that the participants with improved educational standing, and socio-economic background are
more likely to apply the motivational techniques and suggestions in practice positively
(Guclu and Guney, 2017). In this context, the present study confers that “an understanding of
the employee’ socio-economic, educational, and psychological profile will allow a manager
to create an improved motivational model. This will increase the employee productivity and
efficiency”.
Article strength
Most articles study employee engagement and motivation in the relationship with
the human resource department or managerial responsibilities. In the first step, this study
denies this assumption and reflects upon the situation in a comprehensive light. This is
recognized as a primary strength of the research. It is also noted that the theoretical
integration and contextual settings in the present research provides an added depth to the