Motivation
Title: Motivation
1. Introduction
Motivating employees is a key issue for most managers. In order to achieve a high
level of performance and productivity, managers nowadays are inclined to pay more
attention on this issue. Different employees need different motivation. This assignment
will first look at the different characteristics of professional workers and lower level
contingent workers. It will also address the different motivation approaches which are
generally used by managers towards these two different groups. And then, by applying
a set of motivation theories, we will explain why managers should use such different
methods.
2. Characteristics of professional workers and lower level contingent workers
According to Robbins(1998), professional workers are the employees who usually
have specialist knowledge, own a permanent working status and tend to be well-paid in
an organization, such as software engineers and accountants . On the other hand, lower
level contingent workers are usually the people who lack of specialist skills, work
part-time involuntarily due to redundancy and tend to be paid at a relatively low level.
Professional workers are often placed to important positions and take more
responsibility while contingent workers are always working on simple tasks and with
less responsibility.
3. Different approaches of motivation applied to professionals and contingent workers
in real business world
In the real business
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