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There is nothing foreign about the concept of employee motivation. As long as there are employers and staff members to go around, motivation will follow. While the concept itself is not new, new research and awareness have made new aspects of employee motivation not only a possibility, but a reality in the world today.
Decades ago, it was not an uncommon thing to see a superior reward somebody in his/her staff for good performance, thus constituting some form of employee motivation. Recent thinking however has given way to the fact that this process may actually alienate other workers who, for whatever reason, may not be as capable in a particular field or endeavor. As a result, there has been a growing number of people agreeing that this is not the way to carry out employee motivation as it could actually lead to poor productivity. The main purpose of employee motivation is to use it as a "white rabbit" to encourage worker productivity, but instead, in the above example, it has proven to be an impairment to the general state of employer-employee relationship.
There have since been newfangled ideas thrown about with the ultimate goal of modernizing the field of employee motivation. The use of work teams, for instance, has been a particular improvement in employee motivation, and is now widely utilized by many companies.
The aerospace industry birthed this particular facet of employee motivation, which is little a surprise. This involved groups of specially assigned employees to work at a team on any project assigned to them. This form of employee motivation turned out to be a success - more than just a few workers got a chance to chime in with their ideas, which was great for the creative process, as nobody felt as if their creative input was not getting its just recognition. This also proved to be an equal way of distributing employee motivation, as the whole group, and not just somebody in particular from the team, got credit for a job well done, if applicable.
Those were the baby steps for the new wave of employee motivation - nowadays you see the above example in a more evolved form, being used in many disciplines. There are a number of seminars offered which are specifically designed and promoted as a means to offer not only employee motivation, but to create an atmosphere of team work that is surprisingly beneficial to worker productivity. By allowing the people to work together as teams, and as is often the case in these seminars, making any one employee's success dependent on the ability of the team as a whole, the workers are unified and become more closely knit and function much better together. So now it is easy to see how employee motivation has advanced and how it has created such an abstruse, yet powerful effect on the international business scene.
Decades ago, it was not an uncommon thing to see a superior reward somebody in his/her staff for good performance, thus constituting some form of employee motivation. Recent thinking however has given way to the fact that this process may actually alienate other workers who, for whatever reason, may not be as capable in a particular field or endeavor. As a result, there has been a growing number of people agreeing that this is not the way to carry out employee motivation as it could actually lead to poor productivity. The main purpose of employee motivation is to use it as a "white rabbit" to encourage worker productivity, but instead, in the above example, it has proven to be an impairment to the general state of employer-employee relationship.
There have since been newfangled ideas thrown about with the ultimate goal of modernizing the field of employee motivation. The use of work teams, for instance, has been a particular improvement in employee motivation, and is now widely utilized by many companies.
The aerospace industry birthed this particular facet of employee motivation, which is little a surprise. This involved groups of specially assigned employees to work at a team on any project assigned to them. This form of employee motivation turned out to be a success - more than just a few workers got a chance to chime in with their ideas, which was great for the creative process, as nobody felt as if their creative input was not getting its just recognition. This also proved to be an equal way of distributing employee motivation, as the whole group, and not just somebody in particular from the team, got credit for a job well done, if applicable.
Those were the baby steps for the new wave of employee motivation - nowadays you see the above example in a more evolved form, being used in many disciplines. There are a number of seminars offered which are specifically designed and promoted as a means to offer not only employee motivation, but to create an atmosphere of team work that is surprisingly beneficial to worker productivity. By allowing the people to work together as teams, and as is often the case in these seminars, making any one employee's success dependent on the ability of the team as a whole, the workers are unified and become more closely knit and function much better together. So now it is easy to see how employee motivation has advanced and how it has created such an abstruse, yet powerful effect on the international business scene.
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