Persuasive/Argumentative - Essay
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Persuasive/Argumentative - Essay
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ASSESSMENT 2: PERSUASIVE/ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY1[Name]Course:Professor’s Name:Institution:Location of institution:Date:
ASSESSMENT 2: PERSUASIVE/ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY2Conventional wisdom holds that if employees are paid enough salary, they will be more productive. However, there may be more to just a better pay. Motivational theories like Maslow'sNeed Hierarchy Theory recognizes various factors that motivate employees to be more productive- the lower level needs and the higher level needs. Among these factors is better to pay. However, these theories explain that before a higher level need is satisfied, a lower level needs must have been satisfied. According to Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory, salary is a hygiene/maintenance factor that prevents dissatisfaction but does not increase satisfaction or motivation. However, in the absence of this factor, dissatisfaction usually arise (Alshmemri et al., 2017). Herzberg explains motivators as things like recognition, achievement, and responsibility. The presence of these factors makes employees more satisfied while their absence tends to prevent both motivation and job satisfaction. For any organization to survive and perform at the top level,its employees must be happy. Unlike unhappy employees, research shows that happy employees work harder, better and embraces teamwork which makes them generally more productive. This essay tries to argue that the statement “happy employees are productive employees” is more accurate than the statement “better pay motivates employees to be more productive.”Motivation is a very important element in employee’s productivity. Motivation comes from the word “motive” which means desires, urge, needs and wants within an individual(Lazaroiu, 2015, p. 97). Motivation can, therefore, be defined as the general desire, urge, needs or wants that provides the energy needed for an employee to behave in a particular way. Being happy at work implies that employees fully enjoy what they do and love their place of work (Gilbert, McKee, Spreitzer & Amabile, 2017). Better pay refers to work where employees are paid generally higher wages as compared other work of the same category (Gerhart & Fang, 2015, p. 489-52). Employee’s productivity can be defined as the amount of output produced by
ASSESSMENT 2: PERSUASIVE/ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY3an employee per work hour (Howard et al., 2016). This is calculated by dividing employee’s output by work hours. Productivity is vital to an organization because an increase in productivity implies that an organization generates a higher output per work hour. This, in turn, enables an organization to produce more for a given work hour. Better pay can motivate happy employees tobe more productive. When happiness is absent, better pay may or may not have any effect on employee’s productivity based on the theories of motivation. Happy employees are productive employees. When employees find joy in what they do, they are likely to influence their co-workers to take joy in what they do as well. Managers who are happy in their job, for instance, tend to influence those working under them to become happy(Garton & Mankins, 2015). In addition, happy employees tend to support one another in achieving the goals and objectives of the company, especially in group projects. They are also more likely to seek help when they need it, unlike unhappy better-paid employees who would feel ashamed to seek support when they need it because of the higher expectation vested in them.All these works to increase productivity. A study conducted by economists at Warwick University found that happiness resulted in a twelve percent increase in productivity(Revesencio, 2015). The results of the study also showed that employees who were unhappy regardless of the pay were ten percent less productive. The research concluded that indeed human happiness increases productivity as positive emotions provided more strength to individual workers. The increased productivity as attested by the research is linked to employees helping out co-workers and working as a team. Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory of motivation tend to support employee’s happiness as an essential element of productivity as opposed to better pay. Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory places emphasis on motivation sources that are pertinent to productivity. He came to a conclusion that
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