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This 8 page paper looks at Tom Peters and his ideas on motivation. His approach towards motivation is outlined and then considered in the context of supporting motivational theories including the work of Taylor, Mayo, Maslow, McGregor and Goldthorpe. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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advocates the human relations approach, seeing employees and individuals and empowering them, rather than simply focusing on processes. The message itself is not new, it is one that contradicts the
ideas of Taylor and is supported by work of theorists such as Mayo, Maslow and Hertzberg. However, it may also be argued that in some instances employees may not be
best suited with his approach and an instrumental approach maybe observed. 1. Introduction Motivating employees can be valuable for a firm, with a range of differing motivating theories indicates
both tangible and intangible benefits for both the employer and the employee. The approaches taken by many companies will be multifaceted, involving a number of strategies. It is under
a multifaceted strategy that motivational speakers have been utilized, often seen at sales or group meetings with the idea of brining in an outside influence to help increase or improve
motivation. There are a wide number of motivational speakers, many of whom produce tapes as well as making personal appearances. Tom Peters is an interesting speaker who takes a very
people centric approach to motivation arguing that too much attention has been paid to processes and insufficient attention paid to the people the processes are aimed at managing. Therefore we
may argue that there is an inherent approach within Peters theories which embrace the human relations school of thought. 2. Motivating Employees 2.1 The Message of Tom Peters There have
been many theories out forward regarding how and why employees are motivated and the relationship with how they interact. Peters argues that managers to move away from looking at things
in a purely scientific manner, as humans are not always motivated by the scientific, they are feeling and emotional beings, and as such in the business world it needs to
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