Venuste HABIMANA

How Do Organizations Motivate and Engage Employees or Members?

Many people find themselves trapped in careers and jobs that don't enable
them to be free-flowing, natural, and effortless. They feel absorbed in their
responsibilities. In this case, their jobs dont create great joy and delight in
their life. It becomes hard to get effective results from employees who work
in situation like this and the company found its self in critical difficult
situation where it can meet great loses or non-effective management.
Organizations in order to be motivate and engage employees or members;
first of all they need to have good competent and skilled managers.
A fundamental task for leaders is to motivate followers to accomplish great
things and many researches have recognized that leaders can also
influence performance by altering the structural features of followers jobs.
Managers or leaders need to present the following qualities and technics so
that they can be motivate effectively their employees in the company.
a. Creative Problem Solving Skills: Describing and analyzing a problem,
Identifying causes of a problem, developing creative options and
choosing the best course of action, and Implementing and evaluating
effective and efficiency of the decision.
b. Communication Skills: Listening skills, Presentation skills, Feedback
Skills, Report writing skills.
c. Conflict Management Skills: Identifying sources of conflict functional
and dysfunctional conflicts, Understanding personal style of conflict
resolution, choosing the best strategy for dealing with a conflict, and
Developing skills in promoting constructive conflicts in organization
and teams.
d. Negotiation Skills: Distinguishing distributive and integrative
negotiations, position and principle negotiation, Identifying common
mistakes in negotiation and ways to avoid them, Developing rational
thinking in negotiation, and developing effective skills in negotiation
that benefits all parties involved.
e. Self-Awareness and Improvement: Understanding the concept of selfmanagement, Evaluate the effectiveness of self-management,
Developing creative and holistic thinking, Understanding the
importance of emotions in works as well in self-development,

Understand of self-motivation, and Effectively managing self-learning

and change.
There many motivation theories that can be applicable in presenting
technics to be used by companies in their way to effective results from
motivated employees and members. With technics, I can say Positive
imagery in posting motivational themes and messages; Team-building
activities in despite mixed feelings about team-building activities in order to
encourage people to work together; Trainings bring motivation where
people can be taught to become more motivated by showing them how to
deconstruct tasks and challenges, and how to feel less intimidated by their
job roles; Enhanced communication in talking and listening to the
employees; and Targets, rewards and incentives in accepting that having
targets to work towards is one of the most effective ways of improving
performance.
How do your experiences as a motivated employee or group member
compare to the theories about motivation described in the readings?
I am involved with a multinational company in which I am team leader of
Finance and Business analyzes division, in Economy department. I
participate into many meetings with my superiors, customers or employees.
Through many challenges, I have experienced that motivating a team is
always easier if you fully understand that they may not necessarily be
motivated by the same things as you. The most effective teams are those
that feel valued and supported but also feel that they are progressing and
developing through the completion of challenging tasks. If a team
understands company objectives, they are much more likely to want to
work harder towards their achievement. Also, most people tend to respond
well to being given the opportunity to make decisions and take on
additional responsibilities. Whatever motivational techniques work the best,
it is always important to ensure that your team feels it is making a valuable
and positive contribution.
With Stadjkovic Alexander and Luthans Fred article, they describe
managers and leaders qualities and techniques to motivation and the way
to conduct employees in order to enhance their self-efficacy in
accomplishing effectively their tasks.