Employee Ownership, Motivation and Productivity

A question often asked by first-line supervisors and managers is “How do we motivate our employees?” Effectively motivating employees to achieve a desired outcome is one of the most important functions as a supervisor or manager. There is evidence to show organizations are facing challenges retaining employees due to limited opportunities for advancement and the current competitive labor market. It does not appear things will get any better in the future. The loss of employees represents a loss of skills, knowledge, and experiences and can create a significant economic impact and cost to corporations as well as impacting the needs of customers. Managers who can motivate employees assist the organization by

E l l a c u r í a f u r t h e r e d h i s e d u c a t i o n a n d “ s t u d i e d H u m a n i t i e s a n d P h i l o s o p h y a t Q u i t o ,

Facilitating focus groups, interviews, allowed us to strengthen our qualitative research skills. As an outsider, the qualitative process was the most enjoyable to me. I was able to learn their way of living, strengths and challenges of their community. The process of creating the pretest and posttest surveys collectively was a challenge, yet another beneficially learning experience. I realized effective surveys take time to develop and need to be reviewed by multiple people. Developing poorly constructed questionaries’ is highly possible if no one takes the time to actually

Following a critical overview of the literature, this chapter outlines the research methodology. It will provide a justification for a qualitative methodological approach and specification of methods employed. Highlighting the appropriateness of interviews and focus groups in relation to the methodology and overall research. It will also provide recognition of their relative strengths and limitations.

This article represents a focus group type of qualitative research. According to Qualitative Research Consultants Association (2015), in focus group qualitative research, a group of individuals who share a need, life circumstance, or habit relevant to the research issue(s) at hand are led in a discussion by a modulator. The focus group discussions often include between two to ten respondents, and are often held face to face. They can also be conducted remotely through videoconferencing, teleconferencing, or

Each interview and focus group audio was transcribed within 24 hours by a research assistant. Data analysis was conducted using the Statistical package for social science to analyze the data set collected from the

E f f e c t s o f C h i l d r e n W i t h o u t E d u c a t i o n

Obviously the high salary attracts numerous outstanding talents to join the company. The direct impact is to highly irritate the employees’ motivation. Besides, the employee stock ownership system has fundamentally changed the relationship between employers and employees from the simple employment relationship to collaboration. The change enhances the belonging of employees to the company and ensures the excellent communication, which helps employees understand how they can support the employers.

C a l e n d a r a i l y H i irn f l a t i o n

Qualitative approaches to research are approaches that depend on words as the primary source of data, as opposed to numbers. Qualitative research may also be called non-experimental research, since the investigations are more exploratory and do not require control or the manipulation of variables. There are several types of qualitative research approaches, for example grounded theory, phenomenological, generic inquiry, ethnography, and case studies. Non-experimental methods may include qualitative methods such as surveys, focus groups and interviews (Hacker, 2013). The purpose of this discussion is to carefully analyze

The research method I chose for this study is qualitative semi-structured interview. Qualitative approaches are often used for exploratory and descriptive studies (Neuman, 2007), which suit the objective of this research. Semi-structured interviews compared to rigid structured interview, allows for a more focused, detailed and two-way communication. Detailed data is very helpful for the inductive nature of this study where data is gathered and examined prior to developing a theory(Seidel, 1998). Compared to focus group, it presented a challenge in terms of data recoding and organization, one-on-one interviews are easier to manage.

The labour process under a capitalist society has become distorted over time. James Rinehart explores this in his book “The Tyranny of Work,” where he ponders the recent evolution of labour in relation to the human condition. (Rinehart, 2006) An action which should look to promote personal and communal development now leaves employees alienated in several forms. We’re given a visual representation of this through the short movie “The Necktie,” and real-life examples of experiments conducted in Dan Ariely’s Ted Talk, “What makes us feel good about our work?” (Canada, 2017) (Ariely, 2017)

One of the essential techniques of conducting a qualitative research is focus group. It consists of participants that should be representative of a local population. While qualitative research does not focus on precision, it does ensure richness of the researched topic. This paper will explore the benefit of a focus group as a means to research the topic presented to

F I N A N C I A L S TAT E M E N T S

From time immemorial, organizations were established to accomplish certain objectives. The functions of manager in the attainment of set goals cannot be underestimated with the increased complexity of the society and increasing size of organizations, manger’s decision can have a far reaching impact on the society.