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Motivation in the Workplace

David Jamieson's and Julie O'Mara's book, Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage, shows in a practical way how to attract, make use of, and keep employees with a variety of skills and backgrounds. Using examples from over eighty organizations, the authors show what real companies do to capitalize on a contemporary workforce and how companies have to change in order to mesh with the needs and lifestyles of today's workers. Jamieson is president of the Jamieson Consulting Group and codirector of the Master of Science in Organization Development program at Pepperdine University, and Julie O'Mara is president of O'Mara and Associates, a human resource development consulting firm. The authors cover a variety of important topics in their work·Matching People and Jobs, Managing and Rewarding Performance, Supporting Lifestyle Needs, and Taking Action·and for the purposes of this essay, the focus will be on looking at a variety of ways of approaching motivation in the workplace, examining the work of other researchers as well on the topic of motivation.

Different companies approach employee motivation differently, depending on the company culture, mission, and style of the owners and executives. Moss Pharmacy asked their employees to fill out a workforce study questionnaire in order to find out which benefits were the most influential in the employee's choice of employer. Some employees have professional aspirations, and others have other motivators. Companies cannot keep their best workers if they do not know what motivates them.

Keeping the most talented salespeople is an important management task, and sometimes one of the tough ones because the best salespeople can jump from company to company, moving to a competitor that perhaps offers more money, perks, or desirable promotions. Jeff Rotsch, senior vice president of General Mills, says, "The big thing about retention is knowing how happy your sales reps are...

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