1st Draft of Evaluative Paper–Signature Assignment Due.
The Signature Assignment will allow you to examine a Content Theory or Process Theory below and its Perspective on Motivation.
Content Theories: Emphasize the needs that motivate people.
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Alderfer’s ERG Theory
• Herzberg’s Two-Factory Theory
• McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory
Process Theories: Explain how people select behavioral actions to meet their needs and determine whether their choices were successful.
• Locke’s Goal-Setting Theory
• Adams’s Equity Theory
• Vroom’s Expectancy Theory
Customers, both external and internal are a key element of a successful business, and an organization’s internal customers are the employees. One of the fundamental keys to a successful organization is successful employees (Bartosh, 2015). Managers are more than supervisors who plan, organize, lead and control. Dynamic managers are one of the most vital elements of employee success (Bartosh, 2015). Therefore, it is wise for a manager to recognize not only what makes him or her an effective manager, but also, to understand what makes employees successful, productive, and highly motivated. To accomplish this managers must understand a management theory that complements his or her skill set, personality traits, and problem-solving style.
Submit a 5-6 page Evaluative Paper–Signature Assignment. Your Signature Assignment is to choose and examine a Content or Process Management Theory that interest you. This paper should also contain your perspective and insights. Research and provide support from scholarly or peer-reviewed journals.
Use five or more sources outside the course textbook and proofread your work before submitting for grade. Include a cover page containing the title of the paper, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page lengt
