Managing and Leading People: Role of Line Managers and Leaders in Motivating and Engaging Employees for Organizational Renewal

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Relationship between line managers and leaders role.....................................................................2

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Role of line managers and leaders to enhance motivation..............................................................3
 Combine work goals with the goals of the employees.........................................................4
 Understand what motivates each employee..........................................................................4
 Maslow hierarchy of needs theory....................................................................................4
 Lead by example...................................................................................................................5
 Create a fair system..............................................................................................................5
 Equity theory........................................................................................................................5
Methods that should be implemented in relation to organizational renewal...................................6
Training........................................................................................................................................6
Communication............................................................................................................................7
Delegation....................................................................................................................................8
Herzberg Two factor theory.....................................................................................................8
Provide feedback..........................................................................................................................8
Incentivize workers......................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11
Introduction
In the present era, it has been observed that line managers and leaders plays a great in role in
motivating and engaging employees for organizational renewal. In this paper, the specific
business area selected for the task is “Motivating and engaging the employees for organizational
renewal”. Motivation is one of the essential factors that should be enhanced by the leaders and
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line managers as it assist in enhancing the engagement level among the workers for the
organizational renewal. With effective motivational techniques it would be easy for the company
to bring efficiency in relation to operations of the organization. Organizational renewal is the
effective strategy for boosting the organizational performance and also it helps for the long term
survival of the company. So, in this paper the discussion will be made on the role of leaders and
line managers to motivate the employees.
Relationship between line managers and leaders role
It can be said that the role of the leaders is to influence and drive the efforts of the group towards
the set goals and targets of the organization. But on the manager is also considered as the traits of
the leader in which they possess the qualities of the leadership. The leaders develop the strategy
that assist in building and also focuses on maintaining the competitive advantage. In the present
era, the organizations need to robust leadership as it will help in maximizing the overall efficient
of the organization. Leaders and line managers both focuses on implementing the different
strategies in the workplace (Hur, Moon and Jun,2016).
They both have an essential role in managing the organizational operations which directly assist
in accomplishing the organizational goals. The leaders and managers emphasizes on enhancing
the motivation among the workers so that they engagement level among employees can be
enhanced. The leaders have the role to give new policies and framework and the managers tries
to implement it effectively in the workplace so that the overall activities can be managed
effectively. So it can be stated that there is a relation between line managers and leaders as they
both have the main aim to enhance the productivity of workers (Kearney, 2018).
Role of line managers and leaders to enhance motivation
In the workplace, it is the responsibility of the leaders and line managers to enhance the
motivation of workers. There are different ways that can be considered by the line managers or
the leaders to enhance the level of engagement and also motivation of employees towards
allocated work. The employees can only be motivated for the performance renewal when
emphasis is given on emphasis is given on the different aspects of motivation. The studies have
showed that employee engagement is rare but it is the duty of the higher authorities to enhance
motivation and also the involvement level of the workers (Hidi, 2016).
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The Gallup’s recent global research sated that only 13% of the workers on the global platform
are involved at work. According to State of American Workplace report, just 33% of overall
residents living in the United States are involved at work. It has been stated that if employee
engagement is present then it would easy for the leaders and line managers to reduce
absenteeism by 41, turnover by 24% and also patient safety incidents by 58%. It will assist in
boosting the customer metrics by 10%, productivity by 17%, sales by 20% and overall profits by
21% (Gallup, 2019).
(Source: Gallup, 2019).
 Combine work goals with the goals of the employees
The leaders should emphasize on motivating the employees by ensuring that the set objectives
are aligned with the work goals. This also needs planning and communication as the managers
should know the basic requirement of the employees. If there are no se objectives to attain then it
will be frustrating, so it is important for the managers to set the goals so effective outcome can
be accomplished. There are many cases when the employees get misunderstood with the goals
and this leads to disappointment and failure, so it is the duty of line managers and leaders to
bring clarity of the work (Deckers, 2018).
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