Group no. 8: Coffee time

 

 

 

Intrinsic & extrinsic motivators in administration and in manufacturing industry

 

 

Motivation is having willingness and desire to do something. Managers try to motivate empoyees by giving them different rewards. There are two kinds of rewards, extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic rewards are for example, praise, money, more personal days, longer lunch break,… Intrinsic rewards are good vertical and horizontal comunnication, satisfaction or accomplishment. An idea of reward for achievement is absent because rewards are an extrinsic factor. Motivators vary according to different levels in the organization.
 
Manufacturing workers are primarily  motivated by the extrinsic factors and there is a lack of intrinsic motivation.  In our research we are going to find out what can be done to increase this kind of motivation.
   
 

 

 

 

HYPOTHESES:

 

1. Workers in administration are more motivated by intrinsic motivators whereas workers in manufacturing industry find extrinsic factors more motivating. 

 

2. Differences between motivators in administration and in manufactury industry that are listed in the literature are slightly exaggerated. Workers are best motivated with a combination of both motivators ( intrinsic & extrinsic).

 
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
 

1.  Which theories best  define work motivation? 

2.  How are intrinsic and extrinsic motivators defined?

3.  Which motivators belong to the intrisic and which to the extrinsic category ?

4.  Does a combination of motivators really motivate workers best? 

LITERATURE:
  • Cooper, C. L., Robertson, I.T. (1996): Key Reviews in Managerial Psychology (Concepts and research for practice), John Willy & Sons Ltd, Manchaster
  • Anderson, N., Ones, D.S., Sinangil, H.K., Viswesvoran, C. (2002): Industrial, Work & Organizational Psychology, Vol. 2, Sage publication Ltd, London
  • Forsyth, P. (2006): How to Motivate People, Kogan Page, London and Philadephia
  • Ford, M.E., (1992): Motivating Humans: Goals, Emotions and Personal Agency Beliefs, Sage Publications Ltd, London
  • Tietjen, M.A., Myers, R.M., (1998): Motivation and Job Satisfaction. Management decision, Vol. 36, Issue 4, 226-231
  • Landes, L. (2006): Getting the Best out of People in the Workplace, Journal for Quality & Participation, Vol. 29 Issue 4, 27-29

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    Distribution of tasks for seminar work:

     

    Katja- theories about intrinsic motivators

    Martina- theories about extrinsic motivators

    Klavdija and Tina: introduction, conclusion

    Petra and Anja: questions for the poll

     

     

    Group members

     

    1) Katja Oblak

    2) Martina Grozina

    3) Klavdija Klobučar

    4) Petra Rolih

    5) Martina Gerbec

    6) Anja Videnič

     

     

    Distribution of roles

     

    1) Chair: Klavdija Klobučar

    2) Secretary: Martina Gerbec

    3) Progress chaser: Martina Grozina

    4) Timekeeper: Katja Oblak

    5) Reserve person: Petra Rolih in Anja Videnič 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Discussion of issues

     

    Issue 1: We first met to discuss our topic for PBL.

     

    Decision 1: We decided that our topic will be: How to motivate people in organizations.

     

     

    Issue 2: Defined problem

    We went to dr.- Černigoj-Sadar and with her help we decided to find out what motivates workers  in office (administration) and what  in manufacturing industry. We think that there must be major differences between those two groups of workers. As  future managers we are interested if there is any difference between those groups, especially we would like to know which group is more motivated by material motivators and which  by non-material. We think that the problem which we will research is a very important topic in the organization. If people are satisfied with their job, colleagues and salary,  they are more successful and give more attention to the work.

    So the title for our seminar work is : What motivates workers in administration and what in manufacturing industry.

    Girls do you agree?

     

    Anja: Petra I agree :)

     

    Tina: I think that our topic is very interesting. I am also very happy that we already have all the literature we need.  Now we just have to decide what each member will do.

     

    Decision 2: The title for our seminar work is : Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in administration and in manufaturing industry. 

     

     

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    Issue 3: PROBLEM

    Petra: Girls, Jana still didn't send me back e-mail, so we still don't know what to do with our topic. I hope that Jana And Mrs. Černigoj Sadar will talk with each other because one of them said something and the other one something else. I think it's about time, that we know if our topic is ok.

    Tina and Martina, because you were absent today: till Friday we have to improve our problem, make the right topic, write minutes for our 1st meeting and write the list of literature. I think this won't be a big problem, because we already have sent the literature to Jana. I suggest we could have a coffee time before the management class on Thursday, do you agree? 

     

    I think I'm going to be   hahahaha

     

    Issue 4: Literature:

    • Cooper, C. L., Robertson, I.T. (1996): Key Reviews in Managerial Psychology (Concepts and research for practice), John Willy & Sons Ltd, Manchaster
    • Anderson, N., Ones, D.S., Sinangil, H.K., Viswesvoran, C. (2002): Industrial, Work & Organizational Psychology, Vol. 2, Sage publication Ltd, London
    • Forsyth, P. (2006): How to Motivate People, Kogan Page, London and Philadephia
    • Ford, M.E., (1992): Motivating Humans: Goals, Emotions and Personal Agency Beliefs, Sage Publications Ltd, London
    • Tietjen, M.A., Myers, R.M., (1998): Motivation and Job Satisfaction. Management decision, Vol. 36, Issue 4, 226-231
    • Landes, L. (2006): Getting the Best ou of People in the Workplace, Journal for Quality & Participation, Vol. 29 Issue 4, 27-29

     

    I hope that the literature is ok.

     

    Tina:  I don't think this wiil be a problem, because tomorrow in Organizational Behaviour Class prof. Nadoh will give us back our concept for seminar work and then we'll know if our topic is ok. I don't understand what you mean with : improve our topic. What do we have to do? Please explain.

    I think that is a good idea if we meet on Thursday and complete our tasks for this week. I think that the literature that we have is ok. I have already read some of the texts and we can use a lot of it in our seminar work. In the book How to motivate people there are chapters about different ways of motivating, different material and non-material motivators, how people feel about work, different theories of work motivation... It is very interesting. I hope that rest of you have also read some of the literature.

    See you on thursday!

    Have fun!

     

    Anja: Petra and Tina one big plus for both of u. U two really done your job. About meeting, Thursday will be ok, so see ya tomorrow! Kisses to all.

     

    Petra: Tina, prof. Zorko published some slides on how to define the problem. And it's quite different. So we should change it. We can try to do this on Thursday. I think if we meet on Thursday at 1p.m., it would be enough time to do  minutes.

    Tina, do you have copies from the books which  prof. Sadar-Černigoj gave us?

     

    Decision 3: We have all literature!

     

     

    Issue 5: MEETING ON THURSDAY AT 1P.M.?

     

    Katja: I have time and I can't wait

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Minutes of the 1st group meeting

     

    held on 1.3.2007 in FDV 27 (computer room)

     

    Present: Katja Oblak, Martina Grozina, Martina Gerbec, Klavdija Klobučar, Petra Rolih, Anja Videnič

     

    Agenda

    1. Definition of the problem and tittle

    2. Literature

    3. Research questions

    4. Other business

     

    Item 1:

    Discussion: On consultation prof. Černigoj-Sadar she helped us with our title and problem. We discussed what we would like to do with the topic of motivation. After careful reading of the literature we narrowed down our research problem and defined it. 

    Decision: We agree that our title is: Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in the administration and in the manufacturing industry.

     

    Item 2:

    Discussion:We searched for scientific articles about motivation in digital databases: Ebsco, Proquest, Emerald Management Extra, ... We found 2 specific articles which we can use for our seminar work. Prof. Černigoj-Sadar also gave us some adequate literature and other literature we found in the FDV library.

    Decision: Each member of the group got one section of the literature. After reading it we will summarized it and then we will form our hypotheses.

     

    Item 3:

    Discussion: Until the next meeting each member of our group will form a research question which she finds suitable for our seminar work.

    Decision:The most adaquate reasearch questions will be used in our seminar work.

     

    Item 4:  

    The next meeting will be on Tuesday 6.3. 2007 after the English lession at 10 a.m. We will choose the best research question and set up  main hypotheses.

    In case of changes, news will be posted on the Wiki.

     

    Assignments:

    Each member must  read literature, make reasearch question, think about hypotheses and bring literature on next meeting.