Managing People: Critical Issue of Low Employee Motivation and Ways to Motivate and Engage Employees

MANAGING PEOPLE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART — A......................................................................................................................................4
Identifying the critical issue of low employee motivation...........................................................4
Negative effects of lack of employee motivation........................................................................4
PART — B.......................................................................................................................................7
Different ways to motivate and engage employees.....................................................................7
Justifying why 'Recognition & Reward' method is advantageous...............................................8
PART — C.....................................................................................................................................10
Application of theoretical framework........................................................................................10
PART — D....................................................................................................................................12
Value based reflective statement...............................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Every business organization is made up of its personnel, management teams, external
stakeholders, and its end users. One of the main components of a workplace is its human
potential or better known as human resources. An employer recruits people based on their
understanding and intent of achieving the desired goals and objectives. This is accomplished
with proper employee/people management (Chemuturi and et.al., 2019). There are many
workplace challenges that threatens company's productivity such as strategy execution, change
management, etc.
The following report will analyse the critical issue of low employee motivation and
engagement in the context of the company 'Coca Cola Euro-pacific Partners'. Headquartered in
Uxbridge, United Kingdom, it is a leading consumer goods organization. The beverage company
relates its worldwide growth not only to boosting sales or regional tastes but more importantly to
the various protective measures it undertakes for improving employee engagement. The report
will discuss various issues that hamper work engagement and will focus on one critical issue in
detail along with highlighting a key recommendation strategy for the same thereby illustrating its
significance.

PART — A
Identifying the critical issue of low employee motivation
The business leaders and their management teams face a hard time in coping with
demotivated employees. It is a humane approach that management teams across all businesses
need to incorporate in their strategic plans. The organizational environment and productivity
scale take a deep hit when unprecedented challenges like low motivation levels of employees
exist. This dominant issue needs to be resolved as it further leads to less engagement.
Employee motivation is concerned with a positively driven attitude of employees to their
workplace environment. The positive factors of employee experience relate to healthy
surroundings and the negative impacts pertain to the daily nuisances at office spaces. A
motivated employee proves beneficial for themselves as well as the organization (Nikolova and
et.al., 2022). In converse the absence of motivation among employees lowers their work
engagement and proves detrimental to the business. Here are some key aspects of this challenge
and how effectively they can be managed.
Negative effects of lack of employee motivation
 Conflicting Situations and Unpleasant Colleagues. Certain employees within Coca
Cola Co. face these occupational conflicts and relate to them on a daily basis. Events like
disagreeable attitudes, offensive behaviours, and unpleasant interpersonal conduct at
workplaces demotivate employees to continue working in the company or organization.
Situations such as miscommunication, aggressive personalities, and a total lack of
concern for people's feelings end up negatively affecting and hurting the person.
 Insufficient Communication of Task Information. The task related hurdle
ineffectively hampers the handling of assigned tasks and poses time management
difficulties within the organization. In case the managing team leader or supervisor fails
to provide a detailed analysis of the concerned assignment on the basis of which the
employee submits the work, then undesirable situations arise where the employee is
blamed for task related blunders (Diamantidis and et.al., 2018). The situation becomes
unfavourable for the worker given the loopholes in communication.