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This 15-page paper discusses how motivation differs between employees and managers, and how age can also influence motivational techniques. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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what employees wanted, as much as it involved management telling employees what needed to be done. Spurred on by schools of thought such as Taylorism and theories of bureaucracy, "motivators"
were top-down directors from the executive suite. Then came the human relations school, fueled, in part by the famous Hawthorne studies conducted during
the 1920s, spearheaded by Mayo, which suggested that if employee needs were met, they would be more motivated to work hard (Mayo and the human relations school). Though the Hawthorne
studies were criticized over the years, Mayo and his movement led to more worker-participation theories. Though todays organizations still rely on theories of
the bureaucracy, management of many of these organizations recognized that employees are going to be more cooperative if they are satisfied and motivated to work hard. Some management offers extrinsic
motivation, such as money, bonuses, benefits and comp time, Others try to tap into employees intrinsic desires to motivate those employees to work hard.
In this paper, well discuss motivation from an employee and managerial perspective. More specifically, well discuss the impact age has on motivation. Upon completion of this paper, well have
a viable discussion about how motivation differs, based on perspective. Pick a Theory, Any Theory Google the terms "employee motivation" and "theories" and
the search engine shows approximately 476,000 results. Amid these results, we see a bunch of theories. McGregors Theory X and Theory Y, for example, points out different characteristics of the
average human being (Douglas McGregor 2011). Theory X assumes human beings are lazy and incompetent, and need to be prodded with the proverbial whip to get things done; while Theory
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