Management Reading Log Motivation

Throughout Chapter 1 the idea of how motivation is the critical Ingredient in organizations is touched upon multiple times. The chapter begins by stating that although it is known that motivation is such a critical ingredient when it comes to fostering as well sustaining high performance and creativity among individuals at a work place, it is still something that is difficult to understand but also manage. The comparison between individuals who are motivated versus people who might be more skilled but lack motivation is something that you come to realize even in my work experience. Although I do not have leadership experience working with teams on projects I have realized the following which is also stated in the book that in organizations in order to get creative ideas and advances in an organizational system you are better off having “technical professionals with A-rated motivation and B rated capabilities than the other way around. ”

The next concept discussed in the chapter that I found to be useful and important was the degree of motivational potential and the importance of that when it comes to how a person views the job assignment he or she is working the following four things are deemed to carry importance when a person weighs there job assignment: Tasks, information, reward and decision making process are organized structured and managed. The concept of reward a person can gain from the completion of a job assignment is something I believe that heavily influences ones motivation. For example at my job recently when we had college interns in the finance department at blue cross most of the times the tasks they were working on somewhat administrative such as scanning, filing etc. Those interns the motivation they had when carrying out those tasks was something that someone with a job in organization already I believe would not have. The reason behind that I believe was most of the interns saw that completing the tasks assigned to them no matter how administrative or unimportant saw the potential reward for completing those tasks well and quickly as going a long way in them getting a full time