IT Strategic Solutions

IT Strategic Solutions

Task 1

Theory of Motivation

Bill Bailey has used the McClelland theory of motivation to support the merger and, in this theory basically focuses on three types of motivation such as; achievement, power and affiliation (Burgman, 1983). Bill Bailey emphasize on the achievement in order to the drive to excel and succeed. He wants to lead individuals to assert themselves to achieve high goals. These people have a great need to develop activities, but very little to affiliate with others. People have moved because of this desire for excellence, are committed to a job well done, accept responsibilities and need constant feedback on their performance.

He also emphasized power that needs to influence and control other people and groups, and get recognition from them. People motivated by this reason like they are deemed important, and want to gradually acquire prestige and status (Burgman, 1983). Usually, struggling to prevail their ideas and tend to have a mentality of politics.

He also thought of affiliation because desire for friendly and close interpersonal relationships, being part of a group. Usually, like to be popular, he knew that it is important to contact with others, do not feel comfortable with the individual work and likes to work in groups and help other people.

It is a theory that is widely distributed in the company. Theory X assumes that people are lazy to be motivated through punishment and avoiding responsibilities (Thompson and Martin, 2005). Theory Y assumes that the effort is a natural on the job and commitment to the goals is a reward and that human beings tend to seek responsibility. Later, he proposed the theory Z does impact on participation in the organization.

Bill Bailey focused on the types of employees before the mergers because, it was essential to consider the following people.

People do not want to work.

People do not want responsibility, prefers to be addressed.

People have little creativity.

Motivation works only physiological levels and security.

People should be controlled and sometimes forced to work.

Work under the right conditions arise naturally.

People prefer autonomy.

Everyone is creative potential

Motivation occurs at all levels

Motivated People can self-directed

Scott Parker has used the theory in order to convince Mrs. Abravanel of motivation and highlights of this theory which holds that individuals as thinking beings, they have hopes and beliefs and expectations about future events in their lives. The behavior is a result of choices among alternatives and choices are based on beliefs and attitudes (Lubatkin, 1983). All human endeavor is made with the expectation of some success.

The subject is confident that if you get the expected return will follow certain consequences for him. The expectation that the achievement of the objectives followed by the desired consequences is called instrumentality. Each result or outcome for the subject has a particular value called valence. The motivation of a person to perform an action is greater the longer the product of expectations, instrumentality and valence.

The relationship between effort and performance depends on two factors: The ...