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Article critique Motivation - An Approach to Motivate Employees

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2) argue that motivation can be used to enhance desired behaviour thus increasing effectiveness and efficiency of the organization. Since every level of the organization works towards the whole system, then effectiveness and efficiency are a result of coordinated activities which arise from employee motivation. Further, effectiveness and efficiency cannot be achieved unless there are factors that affect efficiency, methodologies for increasing efficiency and the role that motivation plays about improving business efficiency.

Article critique Motivation - An Approach to Motivate Employees

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Name 2Article critiqueIntroductionMotivation entails efforts exerted on employees to create directed behaviour in order to achieve organizational objectives. This seeks to meet the desires and needs of the employees to create specific employee behaviour. Researchers have attempted to analyze different ways through which employees can be motivated through different techniques to achieve the desired results and behaviour. This drives an intrinsic enthusiasm into employees to accomplish tasks that are assigned to them. It takes different forms that may be both intrinsic and extrinsic to ensure that the employee needs are met. Guclu & Guney (2017, P. 2) argue that motivation can be used to enhance desired behaviour thus increasing effectiveness and efficiency of the organization. This essay analyses Guclu & Guney (2017) journal article of the literature and findings that revolve around the journal article.Strengths and weaknesses of the articleThe article gives background information on motivation and efficiency to open up the mind of the reader. This is through giving the definition, significance and factors that affect efficiency within the organization. The authors argue that efficiency is utilizing organizational factors and resources to have an improved income ration in the organization. This is thus maximizing the production of the organization at all levels to maximize output. Bartuseviciene &Sakalyte (2013, P. 46) adds that this is based on improved relationship between outputs and inputs to increase profits. Further, there are factors like system effectiveness and motivation that improve employee effectiveness. The system model can be used to understand system efficiencyand effectiveness through treating organization as a system with different parts. For the organization to thrive well, there must be a relationship between inputs and outputs to increase
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Name 3efficiency. Fu-Kwun (2006, P. 659) argues that efficiency allows the system to be streamlined in a way that creates a harmonious relationship. Since every level of the organization works towards the whole system, then effectiveness and efficiency are a result of coordinated activities which arise from employee motivation. Further, effectiveness and efficiency cannot be achieved unless there are factors that affect efficiency, methodologies for increasing efficiency and the role that motivation plays about improving business efficiency. this has also led to the need for understanding the reasons why enterprises achieve low efficiency levels. Kumar & Gulati (2010, P. 56) suggests that efficiency of the system focus on operational management where business processes are aligned to reduce costs and time. This allows proper allocation of resources and designing systems in line with optimal advantages that are created at every level of the organization. This leads to creating overall policies that are used to meet both organizational and market needs. Therefore these are strategies that the organization employs to survive market forces. The journal further analyses the relationship between motivation effectiveness and motivation. It is evident that organizational effectiveness can be improved through employee motivation.motivated employees understand their role within the organization and perform their roles more leading to better results. Therefore, management plays a critical role in meeting the needs of the employee through putting propers strategies in place (Guclu & Guney, 2017, P. 8). Through proper employee policies, allowing employees to participate in decision making and treating employees equally, the organization achieves efficiency and effectiveness in its processes which leads to increased output. One of the other strengths of the nature of the case study and sample population that was used in the study. The sector was carefully selected as a struggling sector which is almost
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