Workplace Motivation

Every manager wants to achieve the same ultimate goal, to have productive employees. The best way for a manager to increase the productivity of their employees is to motivate them. People are the most important asset in any company today and without them the company would not be able to produce the great products that they sell to their customers. Employees that are positively motivated will be productive and highly successful which in turn will make the company successful. Every employee is motivated in different ways and this paper will discuss different motivational strategies that work at CH Robinson.

Companies use many different ways to improve performance many of which vary depending on the type of company they are. When a company’s only revenue comes from their sales-force that company may have to change the way they motivate their employee’s, whereas a restaurant or casino might offer meals or a gym for the employees to use. There are times when incentives that are given for motivation are not given for a good behavior. Awards like this that might be considered are for increasing productivity. This scenario can cause any employee to become underappreciated and over worked. Some say that an individual can have the will or desire to produce in the workplace and that can be enough to keep them on track, where as most humans will become frustrated. If a company can combat the reasons that decrease an employee’s motivation they can become a profitable business.

CH Robinson, the company that I have personally worked for gives their colleagues and I the ability to think for ourselves on what would benefit the growth of the company. Empowering occurs when an individual in an organization is given the authority, trust, and encouragement to accomplish a task. As an organization that starts from the ground, they had to build a market with enough truck hub points to handle the demand for our service. We understood that CH Robinson had an expected image from us and if we were to demand more investment dollars to become the nation’s fastest growing company. The harder and more thorough the employees worked, the more money everyone made.

As a truck route sales representative, the job never gets stagnant or becomes repetitive. The incentives for motivation had to be something of value. If an employee did not generate enough revenue, the company had to find different way to motivate them.