Motivation

Running head: MOTIVATION
Motivation
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Farok and Garcia (2015) in their work ‘Developing group leadership and
communication skills for monitoring EVM in project management’ mention that project
managers can ensure superior team work and motivate their respective teams to deliver higher
levels of performances by using ‘Earned Value Management’ or EVM. EVM enables the
managers to schedule the different activities, sub activities and costs pertaining to the projects
against the initial plan prepared. Thus, it is evident that EVM can enable the project managers
lead their respective teams and take appropriate decisions according to the situations. In other
words EVM facilitates stronger leadership which enables the project managers to gain trust of
their subordinates which in turn motivates them to deliver higher levels of performances.
Savelsbergh, Poell and van der Heijden (2015) in the article titled. ‘Does team stability mediate
the relationship between leadership and team learning? An empirical study among Dutch
project teams.’ support the previous authors by shedding light on the attributes of a good team.
The 408th page of the article mentions that the teams illustrating superior team work display
attributes like continuously taking initiative to learn new skills, reflecting on the outcomes of
their individual actions on the team performances, maintains continuous communication with the
team members, discussion errors and unexpected situations and seeking feedbacks from both
team leaders as well as team members. The team members of also take initiative in
experimenting in order to bring about innovations. Brooks (2009) in their book ‘Organisational
behaviour: individuals, groups and organisation’ point out that project managers can
implement to ensure that their teams are composed of members who operate as groups by using
appropriate leadership skills. The fourth chapter of the book emphasizes on the fact that project
managers should motivate the team members to focus on the goal they aim to achieve, form