Motivating Employees for Productivity

This assignment requires you to read and analyze an article about employee motivation and its effects on productivity. Your task is to evaluate the article's key points, identify its strengths and weaknesses, and offer suggestions for improvement. The analysis should focus on the article's clarity, effectiveness in conveying information, and overall contribution to understanding how motivation influences workplace performance.

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Introduction
The article seeks to identify the effects of the motivation techniques that the managers
employ to ensure that the productivity of the organization is achieved and their application. In
the abstract of the article, the author talks about efficiency being the main fact in the life of the
people in any enterprise (Bruursema, Kari & Kessler, Stacy R & Spector, Paul E, 2011). The
author says that the talents and potentials of people are required for the success of any
organization. The author of this article discloses that the motivation techniques that are employed
by the managers in an organization are determinants of their workers' talents, skills, and
potentials. By using the motivation techniques, the success of the enterprise or organization will
be witnessed.
The research problem being addressed in this article seeks to explore the perceptions that
managers have towards the manufacturing facilities required by the present workforce. The
article is based on a research conducted by the researcher on a sample population of 229
individuals. Among the 229 personnel, 183 worked in three fabric and weaving facilities and the
other 46 were the factory managers. The data has been collected using questionnaires and the
application of employees scaling techniques within the company.
Statistical package for social sciences was used to analyze the study for the effects of
motivational techniques applied by managers to increase the productivity of employees. The
significance level was tested and resolved that there was no normal variance for any variable.
The author starts by saying that the world is changing at a rate such that it affects the
organizations both positively and negatively.

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According to the authors, efficiency is one of the leading factors that affect the success of
the enterprise in positive and negative ways. This brings about argument because the efficiency
of the employees mostly affects the success of any organization positively. Efficiency brings
about the success of the organization where it makes the use of opportunities from the changing
environment (Nguyen, Mark, 2011).
Efficiency is described as being the ability to ensure productivity of the enterprise. The
enterprise should ensure high efficiency because of rising competition. According to the authors
of this article, efficiency has no definition that is achieved by consensus, but this is wrong. This
is because efficiency has been defined differently by different authors. Efficiency has been
defined as elimination of existing problems, perceptions and providing the best living conditions
for employees (Writer, Staff, 2016). It’s the minimization of costs to enhance productivity by
preserving the working environment and natural areas for workers.
Effectiveness is achieved by preparation of raw materials for the production, chemicals to
be used in the production process, shift patterns of employees and salaries paid as well as the
cost of raw materials used in production process. Efficiency is the relationship between the
acquired product and raw materials required to produce the product. It’s the suitable utilization
of resources, capital, raw materials and the know-how (Nguyen, Mark, 2011). It's a process
where a successful and profitable production is achieved due to the investment started to make
production. The importance is given in the year which the investment increased, and life's rising
started.
According to the authors of this article, efficiency is important to the employees,
managers, enterprise and also the community. Efficiency in an organization is affected by
different elements not only the employees as emphasized by the article. Equipment's, energy,

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business practices and also technology affects the efficiency of an enterprise. The enlargement of
the business is due to the growth and development of the technical capacity and employee’s
growth (Radoff, Jon, 2011). This means that the tasks and responsibilities of employees are
promoted because they fulfill different tasks of the enterprise activities.
Job enrichment means that the employees are motivated after they have undertaken their
tasks by the management. This should not be the case because the employees should be
motivated even when they have not accomplished some tasks. This gives them more
encouragement to carry out their tasks most effectively and efficiently. The hours in which the
business is supposed to work efficiently should be calculated according to the article; this brings
about a contradiction in that the method used to calculate the hours may sometimes be biased.
According to this article, many reasons emerge to bring about low efficiency in an
enterprise. Unhealthy and unsafe working environment affects the employees whereby the rooms
are not well ventilated, cleaned and warm hence leading to decrease in their efficiency. The
relationships between the workers and the managers also matter (Schultz & Schultz, Duane,
2010). If the relationship is unfavorable, then the employees will not be able to achieve the goals
and targets of the organization or business. How the employees behave towards each other
affects efficiency, if they do not relate well then there will be no peace because the working
environment will not be suitable due to arguments among themselves. Employees need to be
regularly motivated, if not they will lose the morale of working and hence low productivity to the
business. Low payments to the employees reduce their efficiency because they expect to be paid
amount of money according to the tasks done. When given high payments, they are usually
happy and feel encouraged to continue working for that organization. When the employees are
allocated the jobs they are capable of doing, they feel satisfied and hence work diligently to

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ensure the success of the business. Workers feel so good while doing the tasks that they like most
and hence if given jobs they cannot tackle will reduce efficiency (Schultz & Schultz, Duane,
2010).
According to this article, there are several ways in which the managers can ensure
motivation to their workers. They should allow the workers to bring out their suggestions and
share information with them and listen carefully what they have to say. The managers should
relate to the employees in a friendly manner and always praise their hard work (Radoff, Jon,
2011). The managers should always respect their employees' ideas and be fair to all of them.
They should be patient enough with the employees and also be careful while making promises to
them.
Even though this article has handled the ways to ensure motivation of workers, it has
missed out some important points. Letting the employees lead is a most important way to
motivate them, but this has not been included in this article. Allowing the employees regular
breaks to refresh themselves also motivates them and helpful to their health. This is not
mentioned in the article. Providing security at the workplace also motivates the employees to
work without fear (Writer, Staff, 2016).
Efficiency is the ability to increase productivity in an enterprise, but it can be defined
differently and measured in the socio-economic systems (Writer, Staff, 2016). It's ensuring that
the resources used in the production process are used in the best way possible. According to this
article, motivation is the power that drives the people, and this is absolutely a true statement.
According to the results of the study in this article, the people with higher education
status are likely to be more motivated. This is not the case because, in any organization, all the

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employees are treated fairly by the management without any special favor to any employee.
According to this article, there is gender discrimination whereby the females are more valued
than male workers. This brings about a contradiction hence the statement is not true because in
any workplace there should be no gender discrimination to ensure efficiency (Writer, Staff,
2016). This article talks about marital status in the results carried out; there is no discrimination
according to marital status in any enterprise.
Conclusion
Overall, this article is straightforward in the beginning even though the introduction part
is shallow and the article has missed out some important points on ways to increase the
motivation of the employees. To have more people to read this article, it requires a new and more
elaborated introduction. Once the reader has good examples of ways of motivating the
employees and also the effects of motivation in increasing productivity of the enterprise, a good
part of this article has already passed. Overall, this is a good and well-written article which bring
about a relevant information to the managers and workers. This article when considered as a
whole is very relevant and also convincing because it educates the managers on which
motivation techniques to apply to ensure that there is high productivity in their organization
(Writer, Staff, 2016). Only a few points need to be added on motivation techniques for the article
to be complete.

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