Managerial Ability to Motivate: A Current Workplace Observation

In today's workplace, motivating employees to perform plays a key role in the development of high performance individuals and therefore, teams. Understanding what motivates then is key to getting results. Managers then must have a thorough understanding of what motivates their employees to form successful and productive teams. One of the main theories that managers can utilize to help explain what motivates was developed by Victor Vroom. Vroom developed a theory called Expectancy Theory (ET) …

…success. Without this level of managerial motivational efforts, our department would be at a severe loss. I hope that this motivational effort is rewarded by making our team a stronger and higher performing team. References University of Phoenix. (Ed.). (2003). Organizational Behavior [University of Phoenix Custom Edition e-text]. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2004, from University of Phoenix, Resource, MGT/331-Organizational Behavior Web site: https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/resource/resource.asp