Analyze theories of motivation to improve employee performance. All criteria from assessment 3 rubric should be included in the paper along with the questions answered below. Assessment Directions Read the fictional scenario and then address the checklist items provided below in an expository essay. Tech-Media Consulting: This company provides consumers with media and technology set-ups for their home and professional use. In the past seven years, this public company has grown to have 750 technology engineers and media specialists working in teams addressing the mission that the founder and employees developed: Our teams provide the best at home and in-office technology and media services possible to make our customers and clients lives easier. The new CEO/president of the company came aboard this successful company to take the business in a new direction. He immediately saw the existing friendly camaraderie at the firm as a possible deterrent to being competitive and profits-driven. Although the company recorded the highest profits in their emerging sector last year, the new CEO thought it crucial to the firms competitiveness to make the employees get a bit more serious as he termed it. As a result, he mandated the following changes in the last six months: Have at least 2/3 of the workforce work from home. Change the mission of the company to be: We drive ourselves to make technology and media work for our customers and shareholders. He has told all managers that he wants to see a 5% rise in profits each quarter. He has frozen all salaries and has contacted HR about cutting pay to be a base pay plus commission. He has had the code of ethics created by the founder removed from the website and instead the report to shareholders uploaded to the website. In meetings he refers to his management team as sharks and discourages any small talk before or after the bi-weekly meetings. The best performing team leaders are rewarded in the meetings by the new CEO/president patting them on the back and telling the rest of the team how they succeeded. He has brought in five of the hardest driving and profit-focused managers from a previous company where he worked to help drive the teams for bigger profits. Human Resources (HR) has had a flood of resignations of late and has become alarmed. Typically, the employees in their exit interviews are now only saying, ‘This is just not the company for me anymore.’ In addition, HR reports a significant rise in sick days. In the last few weeks one of the supervisors has started to speak to various employees about taking his complaints to the stockholders meetings. (He heard about the possible salary reductions and the substitution of commission from a colleague who overheard a conversation between an HR manager and the CEO/president.) Checklist: Using critical thinking and analysis, you will address the checklist items. Summarize the problems at the company that are possibly affecting employee motivation and performance. Analyze motivation theories (providing proper attribution) to explain the employees lack of motivation. Name the theory or theories. Define the theory or theories. Explain how the theory or theories apply/applies to the scenario. Analyze motivation theories (providing proper attribution) to explain (1) the CEO/presidents motivation and (2) that of the supervisor who wants take complaints to the stockholders meeting. Name the theory or theories. Define the theory or theories. Explain how the theory or theories apply/applies to the scenario. Explain how the new company CEO/president can better motivate employees to improve performance. Do some research in the Purdue Global Library and provide a short quote with the appropriate citations from each of at least two (2) scholarly* articles that integrate research into your analysis to provide support for your claims. Your essay should demonstrate a clear and sustained point of view. Submit your 2- to 3-page expository essay with additional title and reference pagesShow more
