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This 7 page paper provides an overview of the concepts of achievement and motivation. In particular, this paper looks at the statement that "all people in the developed world have a high need to achieve, so in order to motivate them to work hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Bibliography lists 5 sources. MHMotiwo.rtf Motivation in the Workplace Written by 11/2001 For More Information on This
Paper, Please For decades, theorists have tried to determine what motivates workers in the modern workplace. It has been argued, for example, that "all people in
the developed world have a high need to achieve, so in order to motivate them to work hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But
recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setting progressive or stretching goals may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. In fact, monetary compensation
has been viewed by many as a more definitive and immediate motivational strategy. In order to consider this statement and the subsequent views of the factors that motivate, it
is necessary to relate the findings in the current literature. Human resources managers have struggled with efforts to improve performance in the workplace setting. It has readily been recognized
that improving performance outcomes is not generally a product of implementing performance appraisals or punitive efforts to determine increases in employee outcomes. Instead, evidence suggests that improvements in job
satisfaction is directly correlated to improvements in employee performance. Employee satisfaction, though, is a complex issue. A number of different types of human resource management systems have been
put into place in an effort to improve employee satisfaction, including shorter work days, shorter work weeks, and improvements in compensation packages. Some theorists have argued, though, that of
all of these efforts, compensation improvements have had the greatest impact on performance outcomes of all of the efforts put in place. In contrast, it has also been argued
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