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However, this move is not always a wise one because when an enterprise has fewer workers it would reduce its productivity which would mean more

The Health and Safety at Work Act was put in place in 1974. This primary legislation covers occupational health and safety ensuring employees and employers are safe within their working environment.

Workers can respond by voluntarily working harder. – Legislated increases in the minimum wage improves workers morale thereby increasing their productivity. The increase in productivity helps balance off the increase in labor cost. An increased wage rate causes an income and substitute effect. Income effect causes the worker to work fewer hours now that their income increased. Substitution effect causes the worker to work more hours.

More modernized theories have been developed to explain motivation in the workplace. These theories are quite useful and strongly support Galt’s decision to pursue a flat rate system and are used to support our recommendation to Galt.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is every person’s god given right, but what exactly is happiness? Americans have fallen in love with the idea of success, we fantasize about cars, clothes and caviar. We want to be living the high life, but the only way to access the high life is to work for it. To climb the ladder of success till you get to the summit. It’s the American Dream, but that’s just it, it’s nothing but a dream, a fantasy. The reality of life is a boring and stressful existence where many of us are just struggling to make a few dollars. It would suffice to say that the American Dream is in all actuality the American Nightmare. The American Nightmare is a pitiful existence inside a self-made

productivity is high with reduced labour cost as a result of less man hours. But most

This results in some workers losing their jobs. The majority of these workers will be those who are the least productive.

This of course is far from the reality. New workers needs to be trained and be accustomed to doing a certain job. While he or she is on this stage the production level goes down which mean lower profits for the company.

Motivation is the force that makes us do things, whether accomplishing personal goals or completing tasks at work. Most people are motivated as a result of their individual needs being satisfied, which gives them the inspiration to perform specific behaviors for which they receive rewards (Kinicki & Williams, 2011). These needs vary from person to person, as everybody has specific needs to be satisfied. When we consider factors that determine the motivation of employees, many of us think of a high salary. This answer is correct for the reason that some employees will be motivated by money, but mostly wrong for the reason that it does not satisfy other needs to a lasting degree (Bizhelp24, 2010). This supports the idea that human

Movies regularly illustrate a glimpse into the inner working of an organization. They analyze how the characters as individuals and groups interact with each other, how they think and feel about each other in an organization.

This would not only be advantageous for the employer but also the employee since it would result in higher wages. Due to this, the worker’s level of motivation and drive to do better would escalate leading to overall productivity of the organization (Salimath and Jones, 2011, p.88).

To understand the problem of worker motivation we must understand Capitalism. Capitalism involves conflicts of interests between management and workers. According to Knights and Willmott (2012) Marxism is when workers are described as a ‘social animal rather than a self-seeking individual’. They further state that production is motivated by the ‘pursuit of profit and the accumulation of capital’. This shows that managers are more interested in profit than workers needs. Similarly Taylor states that motivation comes from money and profit for management, whereas workers would want higher wages, thus suggests a conflict in capitalist society (Knights and Willmott, 2012). This conveys the importance of capitalism in regards to motivation in society and how workers are not seen as humans. Though in a modern society, Taylorism is viewed out-dated because workers are no longer motivated by just financial incentives, they are after

There are very many factors that motivate employees to do outstanding work in their jobs. Though most of them are non-monetary factors like participative decision making, work teams, challenging jobs, goals in life or in the company, power and other factors. Most of the employees that emerge in their workplace, either in a small cubicle or a mega office have got some drive that enable them to perform in their work, but the key question is, is money is the key motivation in their workplace? In this essay both sides will be argued in order to find the answer to this (Robbins, Odendaal & Roodt, 2003).

money’ and ‘one action gives rise to another’. That means if people are rewarded they will be motivated

Although production needs are being met, improvements in productivity are always at the forefront of management’s thoughts. Doing more with less is a constant effort for middle management and hourly laborers. Over all the