Module 1 Employee Motivation, Workforce Trends, and

Labor Relations

What this module is about?

Nice meeting you again my dear students! Let’s talk about Employee’s Motivation; the job of a
manager in the workplace is to get things done through employees. To do this the manager
should be able to motivate employees. But that's easier said than done!

What you are expected to learn?

This module is best for you. At the end of the module you expected to.

1. Identify the principles of motivating the employee’s

2. Value the importance of Workforce trends and Labor Relations

3. Apply the motivation practices and theories

How to learn form this module?

The topic of motivating employees is extremely important to managers and supervisors. Despite
the important of the topic, several myths persist especially among new managers and
supervisors. However you have to:

1. Study the readings very well:

2. Perform activities and work on the Self check

3. Answer the pre test and post test

Okay are you ready now? Before proceeding take the pretest first. This Test is to determine
your previous knowledge of the lessons you are about to study.
PRETEST

Multiple Choices:
Directions: Read the Questions very well. Choose the letter of the correct answers and write
it on your notebook.
1. It is a desire to achieve a goal, combined with the energy to work towards that goal.
Students who are motivated have a desire to undertake their study and complete the
requirements of their course.
a. Morale b. Motivation c. Agreements
2. A motivation where a response which includes enjoyment and optimism about the tasks
that you are involved in
a. Positive Motivation b. Negative Motivation c. Both
3. The leading proponent of the Hierarchy of needs?
a. Frederick Taylor b. Maslow c. Mao tze
4. In hierarchy of needs this forms the basis of the perceived need for/.
a. Self actualization b. Confidence c. Care
5. All humans have a need to be respected and to have self-esteem and self-respect. Also
known as the.
a. Basic needs b. Confidence c. belonging need
6. This is the literal requirements for human survival.
a. Esteem b. Physiological needs c. Maslow
7. It is physical needs relatively satisfied, the individual's safety needs take precedence and
dominate behavior.
a. Physiological needs b. Safety needs c. Belonging needs
8. In keeping Pace With Today’s Work Force there are Staffing Challenges,Demographic
Chanllenges and
a. Setting Goals b. Alternative Work Arrangement c. Planning Action
9. A motivation involves undertaking tasks because there will be undesirable outcomes, eg.
failing a subject, if tasks are not completed
a. Positive b. Negative c. Both
10. Work force Motivation are Monetary rewards, Fair treatment, satisfying work and
a. Work life balance b. . . Demographic Challenges c. Esteem
Lesson 1

Employee Motivation, Workforce Trends, and Labor Relations

Motivating Employees

What Is Motivation?

Motivation is a desire to achieve a goal, combined with the energy to work towards that goal.
Students who are motivated have a desire to undertake their study and complete the requirements
of their course.

Positive and negative Motivation

Sometimes a distinction is made between positive and negative motivation. Positive motivation
is a response which includes enjoyment and optimism about the tasks that you are involved in.
Negative motivation involves undertaking tasks because there will be undesirable outcomes, eg.
failing a subject, if tasks are not completed.

Workforce Motivation
Theories of Motivation

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Theory X, Theory Y, and Theory Z

Frederick W. Taylor
Hierarchy

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid, with the largest and
lowest levels of needs at the bottom, and the need for self-actualization at the top.

The lower four layers of the pyramid contain what Maslow called "deficiency needs" or "d-
needs": esteem, friendship and love, security, and physical needs. With the exception of the
lowest (physiological) needs, if these "deficiency needs" are not met, the body gives no physical
indication but the individual feels anxious and tense.

1. Self-actualization

“What a man can be, he must be.” This forms the basis of the perceived need for self-
actualization. This level of need pertains to what a person's full potential is and realizing that
potential.

2. Esteem

All humans have a need to be respected and to have self-esteem and self-respect. Also known as
the belonging need, esteem presents the normal human desire to be accepted and valued by
others. People need to engage themselves to gain recognition and have an activity or activities
that give the person a sense of contribution, to feel accepted and self-valued, be it in a profession
or hobby.

3. Love and belonging

After physiological and safety needs are fulfilled, the third layer of human needs is social and
involves feelings of belongingness. This aspect of Maslow's hierarchy involves emotionally
based relationships in general, such as:

• Friendship
• Intimacy
• Family

4. Safety needs

With their physical needs relatively satisfied, the individual's safety needs take precedence and
dominate behavior. These needs have to do with people's yearning for a predictable orderly
world in which perceived unfairness and inconsistency are under control, the familiar frequent
and the unfamiliar rare.

Safety and Security needs include:

• Personal security
• Financial security
• Health and well-being
 • Safety net against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts

5. Physiological needs

For the most part, physiological needs are obvious — they are the literal requirements for human
survival. If these requirements are not met, the human body simply cannot continue to function.

Physiological needs include:

• Breathing
• Nutrition
• Homeostasis

Air, water, and food are metabolic requirements for survival in all animals, including humans.
Clothing and shelter provide necessary protection from the elements. The intensity of the human
sexual instinct is shaped more by sexual competition than maintaining a birth rate adequate to
survival of the species.

McGregor’s Assumptions

Workplace Motivation Strategies

• Setting Goals
• Reinforcing Behavior
Management by Objectives

1.

2.

3.
4.

Keeping Pace With Today’s Work Force

Staffing Challenges
Aligning the Workforce and the Organization

External Forces Internal Forces Employee

Fostering Employee Loyalty

Monitoring Employee Workloads

Quality of work Quality of work

 Demographic Challenges

Workforce Diversity Issues

Diversity Initiatives
Alternative Work Arrangements

Working with Labor Unions

 Self Check

Direction: Fill up the Hierarchy of needs of Maslow.

Activity 1.

Scenario:

A woman had been raped three years ago is still having a problems in forming a new friendship,
especially with men.

Answer the given Scenario by completing the sentences given according to Maslow’s hierarchy
of needs.

Need taking precedence:

Need being Sacrifice:

Students categorize the positives and negatives in their lives using Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs. They list things that make them feel good and bad about themselves. They discuss
media's influence over their wants/needs. They complete a worksheet.
POSTTEST

Matching Type
Directions: Match Column A to column B, Write the answer at the provided space.
A B

1. A desire to achieve a goal, combine with the energy a. Work life balance
to work towards the goal.
b. Negative Motivation
2. A motivation where a response which includes
enjoyment and optimism about the tasks that you c. Motivation
are involved in d. Positive Motivation
3. The leading proponent of the Hierarchy of needs
e. Maslow
4. This forms the basis of the perceived needs in
Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. f. Self actualization

5. State that all humans have a need to be respected g. Alternative Work

Arrangement
and to have self-esteem and self-respect. Also
known as the. h. Safety needs
6. Refers to the literal requirements for human
i. Physiological needs
survival.
7. Pertains to the physical needs relatively j. Belonging need
satisfied, the individual's safety needs take
precedence and dominate behavior.
8. This are the basic elements involves in In keeping
Pace With Today’s Work Force there are
Staffing Challenges, and Demographic
Chanllenges and

9. A motivation involves undertaking tasks because

there will be undesirable outcomes, eg. failing a
subject, if tasks are not completed
10. This serves as one of the basic rewards regarding
Work force Motivation are monetary rewards,
Fair treatment, satisfying work and what?
KEY TO CORRECTION:

Posttest and Pretest

1.b 1.c
2.a 2.d
3.b 3.e
4.a 4.j
5.c 5.f
6.b 6.i
7.b 7.h
8.b 8.g
9.b 9.b
10.a 10.a

Self Check

Checked by: Jasmin Magarao Prepared by: Rodilo Lozana BBTE 3-1