Motivating people is extremely challenging today, compared to fifty years ago. Advances in technology have made motivation a challenging obstacle. There are a variety of factors that effect motivation, but three of them seem to be more dominant than others. Better forms of communication, distracting cell phones, and the change in the thought process from generation to generation are three specific factors. Each aspect creates a challenge in itself, but also relates to the others. First, technology has completely changed the methods of motivation. It has made it easier to communicate across great distances; therefore, it is easier to find different job opportunities. When a person recognizes a better opportunity at a different company,
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Even though technology has made many aspects of life better, it has created a huge distraction in the workplace. People tend to be on their cell phones more than they want to be at work. The fall of productivity and money due to cell phone distractions is unbelievable. According to Chris Nerney (2015), sixty percent of all distractions at work are due to cell phone activity. Also, John Hildebrand (2015) stated that if a worker spends ten minutes a day on their phones instead of working, they will waste 2600 minutes a year. That is approximately 43.3 hours per week. If the employee has wages of $12 an hour, a total of $575 is overpaid and $1,726 is lost in productivity. The company would waste $2,301 per worker (par 4). What if each employee spent more than ten minutes off the job and on the phone? These numbers would be enormous, especially if we applied it to every employee in the company. Fifty years ago, the issue of cell phones in the workplace was nonexistent; therefore, managers had no issue with motivating people to get off their phone and get to …show more content…
What do you think employees are doing when pulling out their phones at work? Some are texting or talking to other people, but most are on some form of social media. Social media is an invention that can be extremely addicting. People are more interested about what is happening in everyone else 's lives rather than taking care of business at work. Fifty years ago, people went to work to get their job done, rather than getting on facebook. Finally, people feel as if they need motivation to do a certain job or complete a task. To individuals in the past, the paycheck at the end of the week was enough incentive to do the job well. Nowadays people feel as if they need more than their paycheck; they yearn for a pat on the back or other forms of motivation. If individuals see greater opportunity elsewhere, they will leave the current company as earlier
Even though technology has made many aspects of life better, it has created a huge distraction in the workplace. People tend to be on their cell phones more than they want to be at work. The fall of productivity and money due to cell phone distractions is unbelievable. According to Chris Nerney (2015), sixty percent of all distractions at work are due to cell phone activity. Also, John Hildebrand (2015) stated that if a worker spends ten minutes a day on their phones instead of working, they will waste 2600 minutes a year. That is approximately 43.3 hours per week. If the employee has wages of $12 an hour, a total of $575 is overpaid and $1,726 is lost in productivity. The company would waste $2,301 per worker (par 4). What if each employee spent more than ten minutes off the job and on the phone? These numbers would be enormous, especially if we applied it to every employee in the company. Fifty years ago, the issue of cell phones in the workplace was nonexistent; therefore, managers had no issue with motivating people to get off their phone and get to …show more content…
What do you think employees are doing when pulling out their phones at work? Some are texting or talking to other people, but most are on some form of social media. Social media is an invention that can be extremely addicting. People are more interested about what is happening in everyone else 's lives rather than taking care of business at work. Fifty years ago, people went to work to get their job done, rather than getting on facebook. Finally, people feel as if they need motivation to do a certain job or complete a task. To individuals in the past, the paycheck at the end of the week was enough incentive to do the job well. Nowadays people feel as if they need more than their paycheck; they yearn for a pat on the back or other forms of motivation. If individuals see greater opportunity elsewhere, they will leave the current company as earlier