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Employee Motivation Should Not Only Be Rewards Based

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365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day: With Little or No Money

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365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day: With Little or No Money
Dianna Podmoroff
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This new book is packed with hundreds of simple and inexpensive ways to motivate, challenge and reward your employees. Employees today need constant re-enforcement and recognitionand heres how to do it. With real life proven examples and case studies from actual companie, you can use this book daily to boost morale, productivity, and profits. This is your opportunity to build an organization that people love to work at with these quick, effective, humorous, innovative and simply fun solutions to employee work challenges. Make your business a happy place to work, and reap the benefits.

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Employee Motivation Should Not Only Be Rewards Based.......2007-09-14

When initially perusing 365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day - With Little or No Money, one may hope that the text would offer some forward thinking ideas on inspiring an office setting to facilitate positive attitudes and thus promote excellent results. Dianna Podmoroff's book, after describing motivation theories of other theorists, focuses however, on motivating employees primarily through gifts. While such an approach may help motivate some staff, Pomoroff's focus on an individualized approach to motivating employees through rewards does not even address the conundrum of office-wide inspiration most business are looking to find.
Podoroff uses the first half of the book to define what motivation is, and what it is not, by explaining motivational theories from Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, Clayton Alderfer, Victor Vroom, Clare Graeves, and Don Beck. Two leading theories emerge from these early chapters: Vroom's Expectancy Theory of Motivation and Graves and Becks' Theory of Spiral Dynamics.
Vroom's theory is based on the school of thought that individuals have expectations about outcomes and there are two main groups of outcomes in a work setting. Intrinsic outcomes or motivators, include how interesting, or challenging the job is. Extrinsic outcomes, or rewards, are work related conditions where salary and security are the rewards. The theory assumes that behavior results from conscious choices; people are naturally wired to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Vroom theorizes that individuals have different goals and they can be motivated if they believe all of the following to be true:
1. There is a correlation before effort and performance.
2. Greater performance will result in a desired outcome.
3. That outcome will satisfy a need (goal).
4. The desire to satisfy that need is strong enough to justify the increased effort.
For the theory to work, all four points must be present. Clearly many performance-based models of compensation are a direct result of Vroom's theory.
The Theory of Spiral Dynamics combines behavioral patterns with eight values. Once it is understood what vMeme (value system) an individual operates under, how to relate to that person can be targeted. The vMemes, each assigned a color, as broken down into the following descriptions: Instinctive/Survivalist, Magical/Animistic, Impulsive/Egocentric, Purposeful/Authoritarian, Strategic/Achievement Oriented, Egalitarian/Community Oriented, Integrative, and Holistic. This theory attempts to address why some motivation programs work for some people and some for others in different situations. This theory takes a very individual approach to motivation and can be compared to Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton.
The theory behind Strengths also breaks down attitudes into basic character groups. By understanding these groups, or strengths, a manager may better be able to manage on an individual basis. While management should undoubtedly be catered to the individual, should motivation also? And, moreover, should motivation be simply construed as "gift-giving" only?
According to Podmoroff, motivation must be individualized and presents the reader with examples of "motivation myths" and examples of actual survey responses from employees answering what motivates them the most. Oddly enough, while Podmoroff describes the need for individual motivation, two-thirds of the participants of the survey answered that "people and work environment" was the top motivator. Moreover, "recognition" only received four percent of the votes.
Nonetheless, the second half of the book, which actually includes the "three hundred sixty-five ways to motivate," is based entirely on recognition. These various ways to entice and excite employees are all individualized "gifts" that are given to one employee at a time, at the cost of the company. They include such ideas as having cookies delivered to an employee's door, sending the employee a balloon bouquet, presenting the employee with spa services, or giving the employee paid sessions with a financial planner.
While these gifts (and the three hundred sixty-one others just like them) are nice gestures, many companies cannot afford to treat their employees to such luxuries. Moreover, the question becomes, "Would a balloon bouquet really inspire the average employee to work harder, stay later?" The answer is no.
For the degree of minutiae of motivational theories Podmoroff examines, the author seems to be missing the point by suggesting that "creating a company mascot" or handing out a certificate for the "messiest work station" are ways to motivate an office. Yes, employees are individuals and individual motivators should be considered by management, but those motivators need to include examples outside of personal gifts. Vroom's theory points out that half of the motivation behind an employee goes beyond the "rewards," but instead centers on the challenges and interesting aspects of the job itself. The Sprial Theory, in its very essence, supports finding the correct motivator for the employee. Handing out small gifts is certainly not a motivator for every employee, so how could such actions work to motivate an entire office? The majority of businesses should realize that not only does the individual need to be motivated, but employees must be motivated together, as an office or a network.
Balloons pop, chocolate melts, and spa pedicures end up chipping away to nothing. Gifts and presents are lovely, but they cannot last forever. While Podmoroff examines The Spiral Theory and Vroom's Expectancy Theory, the author misses the forest for the trees. In order to motivate employees, unite them with a common goal, give them something that will not pop, melt, or chip in the future. Instead of focusing on extrinsic side of Vroom's theory, management needs to center its employees on the intrinsic examples, by working to challenge employees, giving them interesting assignments, and allowing them to feel that their work is meaningful. Furthermore, use the Spiral Theory to learn what different employees may find challenging or interesting. An office of employees who are genuinely interested in their work will undoubtedly out perform and office of employees where one employee gets treated to dinner once a month.
Motivation does not only lie in rewards and rewards certainly do not have to wrapped in a pretty box every time. If a company will motivate its employees by the rewards of the position, certainly the company will find itself rewarded in both production and employees who learn to self-motivate. Thus the cycle can continue.

Connecting In Meaningful Ways.......2007-08-04

All people, team members as well as their leaders, simply want to feel appreciated and recognized. Everyone wants to feel important. We want to know that what we do makes a difference that goes beyond the numbers on the financial reports. This book can show you how to do that. Because the fundamental truth is, it's not the money you spend on rewards, but your ability to connect with your employees in a meaningful way that really makes the difference. This book can help you do that. You may also want to see Motivation at Work: Transform Your Business in 6 Extraordinary Steps

Excellent Book on Motivation.......2007-04-10

This is one of those books where you expected one thing and are pleasantly surprised to receive something else. Well, not entirely something else, there certainly is a list of 322 (not 365!) ways to motivate your employees, but that's the last half of the book. The first half is a great business book on motivation and the necessity to create a motivational work environment.

In fact, I found the fist half of the book more interesting than the second half and I say that without knocking the second half whatsoever. 365 covers motivational theory, internal and external motivational factors, management methods and also provides a series of motivational questions to ask employees and new hires to ensure you are able to provide the best motivational environment for their needs.

The second half of 365 covers a number of easy-to-do motivational rewards. While most businesses won't be able to do all of them there are a number of cheap and easy ideas that every business should implement. Not stopping with their own list, the book concludes with a monthly calendar of special days that will allow you to make your own motivational rewards.

Regardless of your work environment, every company can use a few motivational tips. 365 provides 322 of them and a framework to create hundreds more of your own. This is a book that won't be put on my bookshelf, but will remain close by as a reference for things I can do to reward my employees.

365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day: With Little or No Money.......2007-01-03

Excellent book! Dianna Podmoroff's book "365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day: With Little or No Money" is a must have more every organization. I would recommend this book to everyone in management. As someone who has to watch the bottom line very closely in my company I found that Dianna's book has several excellent ideas to tap into peoples feeling of being acknowledged and rewarded. I have already passed this book on to my Executive Team for us to get started on some of Dianna's great ideas.

365 Ways to Motivate and Reward goes the extra mile.......2006-12-20

365 Ways to Motivate and Reward goes the extra mile in providing an understanding of the difference between the Band-Aid approaches to employee motivation and the understanding of true motivation from the employees' perspective. Podmoroff provides statistics from studies that looks at the employees reasoning behind needed recognition, acceptance and that good ole pat on the back. Inspired and motivated employees from management to the janitor foster a highly motivational workplace and this resource provides example after example of tips and techniques that help to create the motivated employee.
Helping the employee to claim ownership in his/her, organization is paramount to creating the positive workplace environment necessary for healthy, growing organizations and Podmoroff has provided 365 ways to do this.

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A lively, accessible look at the Big Bang theory
This compelling book describes how the Big Bang theory arose, how it has evolved, and why it is the best theory so far to explain the current state of the universe. In addition to understanding the birth of the cosmos, readers will learn how the theory stands up to challenges and what it fails to explain. Karen Fox provides clear answers to some of the hardest questions including: Why was the Big Bang theory accepted to begin with? Will the Big Bang theory last into the next century or even the next decade? Is the theory at odds with new scientific findings? One of the most well-known theories in modern science, the Big Bang is the most accurate model yet devised in humanity's tireless serach for the ultimate moment of creation. The Big Bang Theory is the first title in a planned series on the major theories of modern science.

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Avoid, Avoid, Avoid.......2005-07-13

The book appears to be aimed at novice readers, and I have commented on that basis. At 200 or so small format pages, the paperback attempts to be both entertaining and lively in style. But in my opinion this book misses the mark, and is full of errors, ambiguities and sloppy language. It is plain bad!

For instance, when talking about the naked eye view of the sky, she indicates that the planets in their various motions "would get even larger, as if they were coming closer". I presume the author means "brighter" rather than "larger" since to the naked eye, none of the planets subtends a disc. This is typical of the sloppy language used throughout - to those who know, the sloppiness is recognisable as such, but to the true novice, how potentially misleading!

The book frequently wanders into the relationship between philosophy, religion and science, not only in regard to the early cosmologies, but also the acceptance (and lack of acceptance) of the Big Bang in the 1950's and 60's as it and the science of cosmology became more well established.

The second part of the book addresses the Big Bang Theory and its "problems" subsequent to the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This introduces inflationary Big Bang models, and the curvature of space as a function of the mass content of the Universe and so on. In attempting to describe how the expansion rate of the Universe can be deduced from the observed properties of the distant galaxies, the author becomes thoroughly confused and confusing (even more so than is usual for this tome).

In terms of the various post-COBE higher resolution balloon and land based CMB experiments which successfully resolved the first and subsequent peaks in the anisotropy spectrum of the CMB over the last few years, these are within a couple of lines, initially declared as being "comforting" in one sense as they "hit just where the maths predict..." and then are effectively dismissed as "...but other instruments haven't found peaks at all". No conclusions are reached, and the author lumps all her cosmological "eggs" into the basket of the Microwave Anisotropy Project (MAP) spacecraft, which "will" collect data for two years. That's funny, by 2001 MAP was launched and in 2002, MAP was already collecting data, wasn't it?

Even worse, the author trots out "alternative" non-cosmological interpretations of the expansion driven red-shift data such as "tired light" - she does not rebut these ideas, but says effectively that scientists regard general relativity and its description of the way light behaves so highly, that they do not wish to scrap their existing beliefs - potentially implying of course that the "tired light" alternative has some credence, which it doesn't.

A brief discussion of the observations of distant supernovae reported in the late 90's, which concluded that the expansion of the Universe was now accelerating, requiring the reintroduction of something akin to Einstein's cosmological constant is mentioned, but couched more in terms the equivalent of ".. how dare the scientists just re-work the Big Bang Theory to incorporate this new idea, rather than chuck it (the theory) out...". The author recognises that the energy of this repulsive field nicely solves the "missing mass" problem to provide a Universe at critical density as required by the inflationary Big Bang theories, but more in a "...how convenient..." tone.

In "conclusion" the author effectively claims that some alternative theories fit the data as well as the Big Bang theory, but because the alternatives don't fit the data better, they have been ignored by 99% of the world's scientists, who want to stick to their biases.

It is only after the above "conclusions", that there is some information on "Current and Future Research" which includes Dark Energy, Quintessence, the CMB Spectrum expected to be measured by the MAP spacecraft, some details of the results of high resolution balloon and land based CMB measurements, and an admittedly speculative foray into the ekpyrotic alternative to the inflationary beginning of the Universe. The latter material is relatively up-to-date, but presented in an episodic manner.

This book shows all the signs of being originally written in the mid to late nineties, and then having been updated with the addition of a few extra chapters on more recent work in 2001 - except none of the results of the more recent work are used to change or modify or limit any of the previous conjecture or conclusions in the earlier text.

Do not buy this book - as an introductory level text it is potentially extremely misleading in many areas. Far better introductory guides to the subject for the same outlay are available.

I'm disappointed.......2005-05-05

Wow, this is a brief presentation! Einstein's theories of relativity (both special and general) get four pages -- and this includes a bio. The period from Plato to Kepler (about 2000 years) gets all of fourteen pages. I can only assume we're supposed to know all this stuff already, because one couldn't become more than introduced to names given the author's treatment of the topics. On top of this, many "facts" are plain wrong. E.g., the author claims that Hans Bethe knew nothing of his name's addition to the famous Alpha-Beta-Gamma (Alpher-Bethe-Gamow) paper (p. 61). Not true.

There are many much better presentations of this material; for one, see Singh's _Big Bang_. It's better researched and a lot more thorough.

Cosmology for Dummies.......2002-06-25

Karen Fox has made unexplainable explainable. She has taken a very tough subject and made it accessible to the lay reader. I highly recommend this book. I also had the good fortune to see her discuss her book at a local independent book store. She was great. If her book tour comes to your city, don't miss it.

Why You'll Want to Read This Book.......2002-04-25

Karen Fox has the freshest of writing styles and a complete grasp of her subject. Her voice is, at once, playful and intimate. Readers will follow her anywhere. With a winning, light touch, she presents just the right details to give such characters as Plato, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton memorable personalities, and places their accomplishments in the context of a greater story. Inspiring work. An irresistible read.

Scientific Complexity Made Comprehensible.......2002-03-19

Karen Fox has a unique ability to explain difficult scientific concepts to lay people, and has done so brilliantly in her new book explaining current theories of the origin of the universe. She is to be highly commended for putting these theories in perspective, telling us what appears to be supported by compelling evidence, yet letting us know how much uncertainty still exists. We can only hope that Ms. Fox will continue to expand our scientific horizons in language that one does not have to be a PHD to understand.

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Understanding the process of adaptive evolution of phenotypes is a fundamental problem in evolutionary biology. It has been approached from the point of view of population and quantitative genetics, optimality theory, or developmental biology. In the last decade, there has been an explosion of research on phenotypic plasticity (the environmentally induced production of different phenotypes by a single genotype) as well as on the molecular details of development, reflecting the increased recognition of their importance in shaping phenotypic evolution. However, the "hardening" of the neodarwinian synthesis in the '40s led to the largely independent investigation of genetic, developmental and environmental bases of phenotypic expression. As a result, these different perspectives have not been integrated into a satisfying cohesive view of phenotypic evolution.

Phenotypic Evolution explicitly recognizes organisms as complex genetic-epigenetic systems developing in response to changing internal and external environments. As a key to a better understanding of how phenotypes evolve, the authors have developed a framework that centers on the concept of the Developmental Reaction Norm. This encompasses their views: (1) that organisms are better considered as integrated units than as disconnected parts (allometry and phenotypic integration); (2) that an understanding of ontogeny is vital for evaluating evolution of adult forms (ontogenetic trajectories, epigenetics, and constraints); and (3) that environmental heterogeneity is ubiquitous and must be acknowledged for its pervasive role in phenotypic expression.

Phenotypic Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective can serve as a text for graduate-level courses and seminars on phenotypic evolution or evolutionary developmental biology, and as a supplemental text for evolutionary biology. The extensive references provide links to a wide variety of studies examining the diversity of phenotypes. The book will also be of interest to organismal biologists in general, including ecologists, developmental biologists, and systematists.

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Not an introduction, but a great foundation.......2001-06-26

This book introduced me to 'reaction norms' and 'phenotypic plasticity.' Believe me, these are critical notions for any discussion of evolution. Phenotypic plasticity is the notion that different environments produce different phenotypic expressions despite identical genetic material. The book discusses a variety of cases pulled from the animal and plant kingdom. For example, many plant have develop into different 'forms' depending upon the altitude of their environment. In the animal kingdom, twin spiders will build different types of webs depending upon their environment. The 'reaction norm' represents the 'normal' phenotypic response to the environment, something we often mistake as being the genetic 'design.'

The book covers the somewhat daunting topics of allometry, ontogeny and epigentics, but does so in a very readable way. The books is accessible to the interested scientific reader regardless of background. Additionally, the book includes brief historical outlines of major lines of evolutionary thought. These provide an alternative avenue for accessing the theory when the terminology gets difficult.

In short, its the best reference on evolutionary theory I've found.

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Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield formulations but where appropriate for illustration, analogy, and comparison with conventional field theory, they use the component formulation. The book discusses many subjects that, until now, can only be found in the research literature. In addition, it presents a plethora of new results. Combining classical and quantum field theory with group theory, differential geometry, and algebra, the book begins with a solid mathematical background that is used in the rest of the book. The next chapter covers algebraic aspects of supersymmetry and the concepts of superspace and superfield. In the following chapters, the book presents classical and quantum superfield theory and the superfield formulation of supergravity. A synthesis of results and methods developed in the book, the final chapter concludes with the theory of effective action in curved superspaces. After studying this book, readers should be well prepared to pursue independent research in any area of supersymmetry and supergravity. It will be an indispensable source of reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and researchers involved in quantum field theory, high energy physics, gravity theory, mathematical physics, and applied mathematics.

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Richard Stukk is a full-time English professor at the College of the Living Dead (otherwise known as Copequa Community College) and a part-time private eye.

Born a curmudgeon and raised paranoid in New York City, he now finds himself with an overly needy house, an overly sensitive wife, and an overly used red pen. For extra cash, he becomes a suburban Sherlock taking on house-burgling landscapers, neighbor-shadowing neighbors, motorhead Gen-X druggies, and a corrupt county councilman who has got himself missing, if not murdered. All this, while fending off a cop brother-in-law, a petulant mower, and a hot colleague with her commas and curves in all the right places.

Not to mention, working towards his ultimate goal--to bring down the mysterious and licentious Professor Rex Bonet (aka "King Bone"), the Moriarity of the English Department.

Assaulted? Confused? So is he. Only you're just reading this and he's Stukk in the Burbs.

Stukk in the Burbs: A Novel of Mystery and Mortgage Payments from Professor Richard Stukk, Suburban P.I. is a comedy of errors, both grammatical and criminal, in the land of dying lawns and stone dead literacy.

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Richard Stukk is a full-time English professor at the College of the Living Dead (otherwise known as Copequa Community College) and a part-time private eye.

Not to mention, working towards his ultimate goal--to bring down the mysterious and licentious Professor Rex Bonet (aka "King Bone"), the Moriarity of the English Department.

Assaulted? Confused? So is he. Only you're just reading this and he's Stukk in the Burbs.

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