Organizational Behavior: Implications of Flexible Work Arrangements on Employee Motivation

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Organizational Behavior
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Executive Summary
The report has helped in analyzing the different kinds of motivational theories and
approaches which are efficient and essential in managing the employees. Furthermore, the
different kinds of OB theories along with aspects of motivating employees have been taken
into consideration that has helped the companies in maintaining and enhancing the motivation
among the different employees in an appropriate manner. Lastly, the different aspects of
employee motivation and retention approaches have been taken into consideration which
helped in gaining huge productivity.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Workplace Trend........................................................................................................................3
Implications of Flexible working Arrangements on Employer-Employee Relationships.........4
Implications of Flexible Working Arrangements for Motivation of Employees.......................5
Theories of Motivation and Implications...................................................................................6
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs................................................................................................7
Herzberg’s Two Factor Motivation Theory.........................................................................10
Recommendations....................................................................................................................12
Conclusion................................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................14

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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Introduction
The report helps in analyzing the different kinds of methods of motivating the
different employees who are working in the organization. Motivation is one of the special
elements which is required to be taken into consideration as this will help in improving the
overall morale of the employees and the entire organization will help in increasing their
productivity efficiently as well. In this report, the workplace trend is required to be selected
and the implications of the chosen trend for changing nature of employee-employer
relationship is required to be discussed. With the implementation of literature on different
organizational behavior theories, the entire approach will be discussed.
Workplace Trend
The workplace trend that has been taken into consideration in the respective report is
Flexible Work Arrangements. As per the Workplace Flexibility 2010, this is one of the
spectrums of the structure of the work which helps in altering time or place wherein this has
been seen that work is getting done on a regular basis. Furthermore, the flexible kind of work
arrangements is inclusive of the following:
 There will be flexibility in the scheduling o hours which have been worked by the
employees which is inclusive of alternative schedule of work
 Flexibility in the amount of the hours worked which is inclusive of part time work
with sharing of job or performing full time work (Wu, Straub & Liang, 2015)
 Flexibility in place of work such as options are available which is inclusive of
working at home or at the office
According to Leary and Baumeister (2017), this has been seen and identified that the
different workplaces today offer wide range of work arrangements which are flexible in