The purpose of motivation is to stimulate and encourage people's correct behavior motivation, mobilize people's enthusiasm and creativity, so as to give full play to people's potential and achieve the greatest achievements. So what are the commonly used employee motivation methods? Let's have a look!
1. Salary incentive
Salary incentive refers to stimulating the enthusiasm of employees through a reasonable salary system and salary distribution structure. This is an important function of the income distribution system. The salary in a broad sense includes salary, allowance, bonus, profit sharing, stock options, welfare, paid vacation and so on. According to the two-factor theory, salary incentive belongs to the category of health care factors, which can only eliminate employees' dissatisfaction, not lead to a more positive attitude, and the incentive effect is limited. Practice has proved that there is basically no incentive effect in the case of general salary adjustment or small bonus gap. But if used properly, it will still receive the expected incentive effect. For example, the ten-day salary or weekly salary implemented by some foreign companies is actually paid to employees several times a month, and the incentive effect is more sustainable. Some domestic private enterprises reward outstanding employees with certain equity, making employees become shareholders of the company, and the incentive effect is longer. Many enterprises use paid holidays to reward outstanding employees or provide more training opportunities, which has received good incentive effect.
Problems that should be paid attention to when using the salary incentive method: (1) Don't treat the bonus as a fixed salary, but calculate the bonus according to the performance of the team or individual, so that the bonus can really play an incentive role; (2) publicize the welfare projects of enterprises, so that employees can realize that welfare is also a part of wages.
2. Goal motivation
Goal motivation refers to stimulating people's motivation and guiding people's behavior by setting goals, so that employees' personal needs are closely combined with the organizational goals of enterprises, thus stimulating employees' work enthusiasm. The forms and contents of goals are varied, which can be concrete, such as production indicators, or abstract, such as skill level; It can be personal, like? Five-star employees? , can also be collective, such as? A five-star team. According to expectation theory, what is the goal? Valence? Tall? Expectation? Be big, so the excitation will be greater. For example, employees who pass the skill appraisal examination can be promoted to the corresponding skill level and increase the skill salary. Employees think this matter is very valuable and has a high probability of realization, so they will try their best to realize it. For another example, the proportion of technicians is 2%. Most employees think this matter is valuable, but the probability of realization is too small and the goal is too difficult, so they generally won't fight for it.
Problems that should be paid attention to when applying the goal incentive method: (1) Personal goals should be consistent with organizational goals as much as possible. (2) The goal setting should vary from person to person and be treated differently. (3) the goal should be specific and clear, and the difficulty should be appropriate. (4) There should be overall goals and phased goals.
3. Respect the incentive mechanism
Respecting incentives means that managers treat every employee with equal attitude and human touch. Respect incentive is the most humane, effective and ready-made incentive method. It includes three interrelated aspects: trust, respect and support. Trust is the basis and expression of respect. Being trusted by others is itself an incentive; Respect means respecting the personality of employees, their self-esteem and their opinions; Support is to create conditions for employees to work.
Respect is mutual, and respect for others means respect for yourself. Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory? It tells us that everyone has a need to be respected, and that respect needs to be met in order to make people full of confidence in themselves, full of enthusiasm for society and experience their own survival value.
Problems that should be paid attention to when using respect incentive method: (1) Speak politely to employees and avoid using imperative tone; (2) Do not laugh at or despise employees; (3) Listen carefully to the opinions and suggestions of employees; (4) Respect employees' personality, and don't joke about employees' personality.
4. Participate in incentives
Participation incentive refers to a participation process designed by enterprises to give full play to the potential of employees and motivate employees to make more efforts for the success of enterprises. For example, let employees participate in rationalization proposals, enterprise management and technological innovation, and participate in new project construction. How is the enterprise developing now? QC team? Activities and? Security officer on duty? Activities are examples of success. Participate in the incentive to at least satisfy Maslow's? Need hierarchy theory? Three higher-level needs, namely, social needs, respect needs and self-realization needs.
Problems that should be paid attention to when using the participation incentive method: (1) Whether employees have interests, experiences and specialties related to participating in activities; (2) Provide necessary conditions for employees to participate in activities; (3) Pay attention to improving the quality and ability of employees in the process of participation.
5. Work motivation
Work motivation means that enterprises arrange the most suitable jobs for employees according to their hobbies and specialties, so as to give full play to their enthusiasm and intelligence. Two-factor theory finds that what makes employees satisfied belongs to the job itself or the job content, including: achievement, appreciation, challenging job, increased job responsibilities and opportunities for growth and development. The tasks of enterprises need people from different professions to undertake. What leaders need to do is to combine their own work with the expertise of employees, which can not only enable enterprises to complete their tasks well, but also improve the quality of employees and meet the needs of employees' self-realization, thus greatly stimulating their enthusiasm for work.
Problems that should be paid attention to when using the work incentive method: (1) The arranged work is more important and the difficulty is appropriate, which is related to the specialty of employees; (2) employees should feel that their work is challenging, and at the same time feel that they are valued and expected. Easy work is not motivating.
6. Honor incentives
Honor incentive is a kind of ultimate incentive means, which mainly relates work performance with advanced selection and marks it in a certain form or name. The main methods are publicity, praise, reward and experience introduction. There are many ways to encourage honor, and publicity on company websites and newspapers is a common form. Practice has proved that holding a staff meeting, publicly commending and rewarding, and arranging advanced figures to make deeds reports at the meeting have the best effect and are most in line with the original intention of honor encouragement. In other words, let honor become the power to spur honor winners to maintain and carry forward their achievements, and at the same time attract others and stimulate the motivation to compare, learn and catch up.
Problems that should be paid attention to when using the honor incentive method: (1) Publicize, commend and reward advanced people with great fanfare, so that advanced people can feel the happiness of realizing their self-worth; (2) Make sure all employees know who is advanced and what to learn from him; (3) If there is no chance to take the stage to receive the award at the commendation meeting of the superior unit, the subordinate unit shall arrange an appropriate form of public commendation award to avoid an accident with the award certificate; (4) Arrange appropriate titles for advanced figures to facilitate publicity and learning. For example, the power supply workshop of the second chemical plant of Daqing Petrochemical Company? Employee role models? The titles of outstanding employees in the column are: technology? Sharp soldier? 、? Gold medal? Monitor and electrician? Zhiduoxing? Wait a minute.
7. Promotion incentives
Promotion incentive means that enterprise leaders promote employees from a lower position or technical level to a higher position or technical level, and at the same time give them responsibilities and rights corresponding to the new position or technical level. Promotion is an important incentive measure for enterprises. The promotion system has two major functions, one is to select outstanding talents, and the other is to motivate all employees. Promoting excellent employees from within to higher and more important positions is of great significance to the development of employees and enterprises.
Problems that should be paid attention to when applying the promotion incentive method: (1) Promotion must be based on performance; (2) Employees who are promoted to leading cadres must have both ability and political integrity and put morality first.
8. Care about incentives
Caring and encouraging refers to stimulating employees' enthusiasm by caring and caring for them. Care motivation belongs to the category of emotional motivation, right? Love economics? . Practice has proved that as long as emotional factors such as care and love are invested, supplemented by necessary material costs, unexpected incentive effects can sometimes be obtained. There are many ways to care and encourage, such as having heart-to-heart talks, organizing group activities, visiting sick employees, and subsidizing employees in difficulty.
Problems that should be paid attention to when using the method of caring and encouraging: (1) Caring and encouraging should be timely, not only icing on the cake, but also giving timely help; (2) Care and encouragement should be moderate, caring and not unfair.
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