Business Management -> Human resource management: strategies for motivating employees

Strategies for motivating employees

In order to motivate employees, management adopt a wide range of strategies. Some techniques that are used by management to motivate employees include:

- wage and salary considerations
- improved terms of employment; greater job satisfaction levels
- changes in work environment, e.g. office location
- non-monetary rewards and benefits, e.g. education allowances, car allowances
- negative motivators, e.g. termination of employment
- recognition and publicity
- power and authority; position of responsibility
- mentoring
- goal setting
- performance appraisal programmes
- training and succession planning
- creating work team environments