Motivating Your Employees

Personality Types & Work-Related Behaviors

• Risk Propensity
• The degree to which people are willing to take chances. Such individuals make more rapid decisions and use less information in the process.

Early Theories of Motivation

• Hierarchy of Needs Theory
• A theory of Abraham Maslow that states that a satisfied need no longer creates tension and therefore doesn’t motivate.

Early Theories of Motivation

• Hierarchy of Needs Theory
• Maslow believed that the key to motivation is to determine where an individual is along the needs hierarchy and focus motivation efforts at the point where needs become essentially unfulfilled.

Early Theories of Motivation

• Hierarchy of Needs Theory
• Physiological
• Safety
• Social
• Esteem
• Self-actualization