Discussion The unit textbook concepts for our discussion thi

Discussion

The unit textbook concepts for our discussion this week are:

Corporate level strategy

Business level strategy

Five Forces Model

Entrepreneur

Learning Organization

Select one of these concepts and find a related article at the American Management Association news page: http://www.amanet.org/news/inthenews.aspx (Links to an external site.), Entrepreneur Magazine Strategy page: http://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/business-strategy (Links to an external site.) or the Wall Street Journal: http://www.WSJ.com (Links to an external site.) (you can use the Wall Street Journal every week for your discussions in this course - try an inexpensive student subscription).

Search by entering your topic in the search box and you will find one (or several articles) to analyze. Remember to focus upon your selected concept in your analysis

Post your answer in the following format:

CONCEPT:
ARTICLE SUMMARY:
ARTICLE ANALYSIS:
OPINION:

Subject: Mgt & Organizational Behavior(371)

***NOTE*** Please respond on a college leve of 371 and not just quick and general.....give as much information as possible, no matter how lenghty it may be! And please site from where you got your information.

Thanks for all your help.

Solution

For this week’s discussion I have chosen the concept of Leadership and Motivation in business. While searching the internet I have come across a relevant article by Martin Zwilling published in Forbes titled “8 Ways Leaders Can Motivate Employees Beyond Money”. The Author elaborates the qualities of a successful leader and explains why they believe that the primary motivation is to change the world and to build something lasting and not to make a lot of money despite the fact that employees work for money. The author says that non-cash incentives may be more effective in long term than the financial benefits offered to the employees.

The author speaks about the limited budget all entrepreneurs have and therefore to rebuild employee morale i.e. motivate the employees, a good leader should reflect the following qualities:

The author concludes by saying that the basics of leadership don’t change between good times and bad. However when money is in short supply, the principles discussed hereinabove if followed by a leader may go a long way in motivating the employees and the motivated team of employees will definitely overcome the bad times.

I found this article very relevant with the current week\'s textbook concepts because it gave me more insight into the topic of “Leadership and Motivation” and helped to build upon the knowledge that I have acquired from the text book.

Reference:

Article by Martin Zwilling titled “8 Ways Leaders Can Motivate Employees Beyond Money”. Published in FORBES Website http://www.forbes.com/sites/martinzwilling/2012/01/10/8-ways-leaders-can-motivate-employees-beyond-money/