Module- Case Assignment: WORKPLACE MOTIVATION
Overview
As in some of the other assignments in this course, you will draw upon your personal experience for this Module Case Assignment. For the assignment, you will consider the topic of telecommuting and motivation. You will prepare a blog entry that discusses your own experience and applies the background material to the prospect of becoming a telecommuter.
For an overview of some important current issues in telecommuting and working remotely please read:
Peck, E. (2015, March 18) Proof that working from home is here to stay: Even Yahoo still does it.
Case Assignment
In the background materials, you read about some very traditional theories of motivation such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory. There is sometimes a challenge in applying these theories.
Begin with some personal reflection. Consider a time at work when you felt highly motivated. Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory to your situation. Think about what motivates you personally. Can you apply Maslow's and Herzberg's theories to yourself? For this assignment, you will discuss these ideas in a hypothetical situation in which you are offered the opportunity to work remotely, that is, telecommute to your job.
For this Module 2 Case Assignment, you will prepare a blog entry with the title:
My company has offered me a chance to work remotely. Should I telecommute? How can I stay motivated working from home? If I decide to work from home, what can my company do to help me stay highly motivated?
Your blog entry should discuss the following:
• What motivates you?
• How do Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory explain your own and other employees' motivation?
• How can employees remain highly motivated when telecommuting? What can they do to motivate themselves? What can the company do to motivate telecommuting employees?
• Will you become a telecommuter? Why or why not?
Your blog entry should be the equivalent of a 4- to 5-page paper. Also, be sure to use in-text citations and a reference list. For administrative purposes, please add a title page so that your assignment can be readily identified.
Module- SLP: WORKPLACE MOTIVATION
For the Module SLP assignment, you will continue making journal entries about applying the background material to your workplace environment.
In this SLP assignment, the focus is motivation. During this module, your journal entries should focus on how the management where you works motivates workers. You could, for example, notice management applying Theory X or Theory Y in their motivation strategies. Or, you might consider whether management focuses on Maslow's lower order or higher order needs. See if there are instances of effective and ineffective motivation for which you can make a brief journal entry.
As in the Module 1 SLP assignment, each of your journal entries should be a paragraph or so in length, and you should make 4 or 5 journal entries over the course of the module.
Before you submit your journal entries, review what you have written and add in-text citations from the background material as appropriate. Also include a reference page at the end of your paper that gives the references that correspond to the in-text citations that you have used. For completeness, don't forget to add a title page.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.