In a meeting with members of Strategic Management committee in your company, you ask middle managers about the recent performance in the marketing department and their thoughts about the reasons behind it. They state that their performance goals are set too high, with the vast majority of their employees missing their individual targets across the board.   In your education and training to be an organizational behavior consultant, you studied various needs-based motivational theories such as: ·        Maslow’s hierarchy ·        McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y ·        The Two-Factor theory   Your Task Which of the motivational theory do you think is best for describing human behavior in the workplace? Based on that, elaborate how the chosen theory can help in creating a work environment using reward strategies, work-life balance considerations, and other approaches to motivate employees to achieve the performance goals?

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In a meeting with members of Strategic Management committee in your company, you ask middle managers about the recent performance in the marketing department and their thoughts about the reasons behind it. They state that their performance goals are set too high, with the vast majority of their employees missing their individual targets across the board.

 

In your education and training to be an organizational behavior consultant, you studied various needs-based motivational theories such as:

·        Maslow’s hierarchy

·        McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y

·        The Two-Factor theory

 

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Which of the motivational theory do you think is best for describing human behavior in the workplace? Based on that, elaborate how the chosen theory can help in creating a work environment using reward strategies, work-life balance considerations, and other approaches to motivate employees to achieve the performance goals?

 

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