Motivation is what we call our driving force, our 'get up and go'. It stimulates our senses into the achievement of goals that have been set out for us . It is this reason that we consider motivation to be detrimental to the facets of management within the work force. Its ability to sh...

1.1 Managers as Motivators Managers and leaders (Lawler 1986) are responsible for maintaining the morale of workers. Successful leadership requires four elements. The need for vision and the ability to diagnose what needs changing and decide how they would like the future to be shaped. They ...

Douglas McGregor's Theory X & Theory Y Douglas McGregor (1906-1964) was an industrial management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960's. He was also at one time, the president of Antioch College in Ohio. McGregor believed that the management thinking con...

The success of any organization depends on the ability of managers and supervisors to provide a motivating environment for their employees. Motivation is fundamental to all organizations, and can be defined as the result of an employee's or subordinate's concentration towards a valued goal, through ...

Why do people go on holiday? One of the fundamental questions that researchers of tourism ask is why do people go on holiday? This essay will argue that tourists go on holiday for a number of diverse reasons, not all of which are apparent to the tourist themselves or to the many theorists who seek...

Motivation Do you ever wonder what drives a person to succeed? Why do some people succeed against all odds, while others fail when given all advantages possible? Everyone knows a story about someone who was beaten down, appeared to have given up, then out of the blue, picks themselves up, dusts ...

Informal and Formal Training and Development Informal Training and Development Informal training and development is rather casual and incidental. Typically, there are no specified training goals as such, nor are their ways to evaluate if the training actually accomplished these goals or not. Thi...