[A Case Study of Microsoft (Microsoft Company): What Motivates Employees in a Workplace?]

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ABSTRACT

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Employee Motivation” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Employee Motivation” and its relation with “Microsoft”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Employee Motivation” and tries to gauge its effect on “Microsoft”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Motivation” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Employee Motivation” on “Microsoft”.

TABLE OF CONTENT

ABSTRACT4

CHAPTER 01: THE PROPOSAL6

Introduction6

Aims and objectives8

Research Question8

Proposed Literature Search8

Research Methods Outline9

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW10

A Few Well-Liked Theories11

Dimensions of Motivation and Careers14

Microsoft16

CHAPTER 03: METHODS AND ETHICAL ISSUES19

Objective of Study19

Research Approach19

Data Collection19

Why Is the Selected Method Most Appropriate20

Advantages and Disadvantages21

Ethical Issues22

Conclusion23

REFERENCES25

CHAPTER 01: THE PROPOSAL

Introduction

Motivation is defined as a process of internally energizing as well as sustaining enthusiasm for working in an employee for work. The motivation has the ability to manipulate the effort (intensity), the activities choice (direction) as well as the effort's duration (persistence) that an employee put into work, on the behavior of an individual. In general, motivation can be characterised as a force or power that lives within an individual effort and influence, directed behavior and ultimately performance swings and other one by one the results. The researchers accept as fact the importance of individual motivation in the development of vocation has been developed in recent years by a type of reasons (Abbott 2003 333). For the demonstration, the work functions have become more flexible, less well defined, as well as subject to change expansion of both organisations at home and in the span of a vocation, which often involve multiple organisations.

Career transitions appear to be more common and larger part of qualitative differences in previous years. Self-management of their own development vocation is seen as increasingly important in this environment safer. People are encouraged to take responsibility for his own vocation, not only by the press as well as the directors liked him and called, but also by the organisations in which they currently reside. The researchers said that people seem to desire to control the direction of their vocation, with an effect that can significantly influence their own destinies. However, this desire varies among individuals, and some find the prospect of having command of their own destinies fear of what appears to be an increasingly insecure world. The direction as well as power of individual motivation for the development of a vocation of influence varies in people. Personal motivation and vocation proper direction, ...