History of the Study of Organizational Behavior: Individual Work Motivation

History of the Study of Organizational Behavior: Individual Work Motivation

Maintaining a strong and motivated workforce is a big issue that many employers are now facing. The effects of September 11, 2001 have changed the way Americans work and the way corporations conduct business. Many employees prior to the event had very little to fear regarding their employment. Peoples savings were safe and retirement was something that was attainable by any hard working American. Since the attacks, many people struggle to make ends meet and often people are forced to take two or three jobs. People are accepting jobs that pay very little to ensure the family is medically covered. Savings and retirement accounts have been drained and investments have been lost. This disaster has caused many disgruntled and unmotivated employees. I want to focus my attention on the diverse culture in America along with the barriers between many that include religion and work habits. A combination of worldwide issues, unhealthy diets and social distraction often consume many employers' time and money.

Training programs can be long, drawn out boring classes in which an instructor who often has no ties to the company or no idea what the company does teaches. In fact training is often teaching us to hate training. I have had my share of many training programs, most of which in my mind did nothing but waste my time but took me away from my normal duties so getting paid to sleep is how I looked it. Sad as it may seem many of the training programs, although mandatory, didn't strike a chord with me. There was no catch to the introduction, no hook on the examples. In fact many training classes were standard power point presentations that many of us were given copies of for informational purposes. One thing I did do while working for Chase Bank in early 2000 was keep every piece of training material I came across. Several months ago I was piecing together a class on education and training and looked through my old reference materials and noticed very interesting articles, stories and examples. So why had the instructor not brought these points to light? And if he did why did he use them simply as a bullet on one of the many power point presentations? Many people I have spoken to agree with me that the class itself is interesting but the presentation of the material is not relayed so that people will understand accept and learn from it. Many of today's training programs are outdated, uninteresting and are often created with for an entire audience where an instructor can pick up one day and teach the same class to another class repeating this process over and over again. Training programs need to be tailored to suit a company. They need to provide the audience with enthusiasm and make them feel that diversity in the workplace is beneficial and that by learning to work together on a project, it can help you understand your coworkers. You learn more about them and who they are, where they come from and their history.

Diversity in the workplace teaches us to learn about others who are not the same. This teaches us to create a workplace with so that respect for all co-workers is practiced. We may not agree with a person's culture, creed, sex or religion but understating teaches us to have compassion and will eventually help us to understand why a person chooses to act a certain way. The problem this organization faces is unmotivated employees who cannot pass a test and show no enthusiasm while learning. When people choose to work for a company they often look at the