Factors effcting the motivation of staff.

Management style is in effect the leadership of an organisation for it reflects the definition of leadership – “the ability to influence other people to do something”.

 Some of the key facets to leadership and effective management that we aim to achieve at ECC are:

1. Communicating clear aims
2. Setting and communicating clear objectives
3. Using power to empower others
4. Balancing concern for tasks with concern for staff
5. Decision making ability
6. Building effective teams
7. Coping with change

COMMUNICATING CLEAR AIMS

This is essential to ensure staff know what they are working towards, in the form of a mission statement, here at ECC we make sure this happens so that our employees have a target to reach, which will increase motivation and productivity, and make for a more successful company.

SETTING AND COMMINICATING CLEAR OBJECTIVES

Here at ECC we have “SMART” objectives

• Specific: aimed at specific targets such as increasing profit or turnover or visitor numbers.

• Measurable: able to be quantified such as numbers, percentages, or volumes.
• Achievable: within the time set and the resource base.
• Realistic: within the capability of the staff, facility and customer base.
• Timed: set to a time scale which is time scale which is achievable and realistic

USING POWER TO EMPOWER OTHERS

Power should be used to empower others to achieve agreed goals – in other words trusting and supporting staff to do their work to a high standard with the minimum amount of supervision and control. This increases productivity, as the employees at ECC have to get it right first time with hardly any supervision or control.

This particular idea links to the motivational ideas put forward by Macgregor theory X and Y. A manager that follows the theory X style takes the view that the average employee dislikes work and will try to avoid responsibility, and will only work under a mixture of close control and threats to get them motivated as they cant do it on their own accord