Business management concepts and practices

Business Management

Many workers need to know their work will be rewarded to be motivated to perform. Although the pay scale may be fairly inflexible for the security personnel, there are many tools available other than wage increases. For example, incentives, employee recognition and praise for good performance might be ways to improve morale. For incentives, recognition and praise to work, they should not be given to everyone because this approach could actually demotivate those that have worked hard. Instead, rewards, incentive and praise need to be allocated fairly to those workers that really deserve them. Also, communicating a sense of purpose might help the employees to become more interested in their work. In this example, the workers serve a vital function for national security and should be made to feel important for their role in this effort.

Careful explanations should also be given for why individual tasks are necessary.

Question #2

Employees have a tendency to behave negatively when there is lack of communication and uncertainty. Further, employees make up their own versions of reality when they don't know what is going to happen, inventing scenarios that may even be worse than planned actions. Therefore, the best option for management in the Dot.com company is to hold a company-wide meeting to tell the employees the truth. To restore trust, management should encourage employees to ask questions and to communicate openly during the meeting without fear of reprisal. Employees that are being kept will be happier and perform better. and, workers that are going to lose their jobs will have adequate time to find alternative employment.

Question #3

Because the instructor appears not to understand what is causing the drop in attendance and overall performance, the teacher should attempt to find out why students enrolled in the course in the first place, how they feel about the current subject matter and assignments, what they expect, and how they would change the subject material. The instructor should then adapt the course materials and assignments to the students' interests and needs. Further, the instructor needs to make students feel more involved with the class by encourage them to share their ideas and knowledge and encouraging greater student participation through techniques such as debates, brainstorming, and discussions.

Question #4