Motivational Management Prime Aim 5

All employees have the opportunity to discuss and contribute to the identification and management of departmental objectives.

This is the final prime aim for Motivational Management, and the one that established management finds the most difficult to accept.  The directive form of management says that when you are promoted to become a manager your job is to tell other people what to do.  You can now make business decisions and implement those decisions.  You are solely responsible for the performance of your team.  By involving your team you lose authority and diminish your level of responsibility. 

To get this into context we need to recap on some of the discussions so far. We accept that the lowest paid employees are the ones who work closest to our customers – so why don’t we value their opinion on the direction the business should take. 

We have established that one the most important motivational factors is communication, upwards and downwards in an organisation, and the involvement of all employees in the business – involving the whole team in setting their own objectives will be very motivational. 

However prime objective five puts the last piece of the motivational jigsaw into place, because it answers the major problem with directive management that everyone ignores.  NO ONE TODAY LIKES TO DO WHAT THEY ARE TOLD!!  Teenagers have developed ignoring parental instruction into a fine art, as any parent will tell you.  Why should they change after seven years of successful training?  Society today does not have an established respect for authority.  This is not a rant, we are all for personal freedom and self motivation, but it has such an impact on business, and everyone ignores it, but moans about the consequences.  How many times have you heard or used these two phrases:- 

“I have told you how to do that a hundred times!”

“It’s quicker to it myself!” 

However what happens when individuals make a decision to do something themselves, rather than being told to do something?  They do it don’t they?  There has to be a lesson in that.  So if all employees are involved in setting objectives, how much easier is it going to be to motivate them to perform, how much more motivated will they be? 

The order of these prime aims may seem odd, but they are actually in chronological order.  If a business is starting from scratch and working to include the principles of Motivational Management then each of these prime aims need to be addressed in the order they have been listed.  Each prime aim needs to be met before the next one can be addressed. 

These principles sounds good, but how do I actually do this? 

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