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Problems In The Workplace

            Old Navy is a corporation that exhibits all of the characteristics of a business in an industry where good tactical management is the key to long-term success and survival. There can be little doubt that the backbone of every successful business or company is its staff of employees. Employees are the vital parts of the business machine that can aid in its success or contribute to its failure. It is for this reason that it is imperative to possess the ability to acquire and maintain effective employees. The chief method by which a business or company can accomplish this task is through employee-centered motivational programs. While being an assistant manager at Old Navy I was able to look into how the business motivated it's employees, what problems arose from the companies motivation policies and the techniques I chose to implement to create a better workplace.
             The goals of the motivation programs are to encourage employees to maximize their performance by targeting three specific motivational stimuli. The three-targeted stimuli are morale, satisfaction, and rewards. While working at Old Navy I found that the Old Navy Corporation used Fredrick Taylor's approach to motivating their employees. He believed that when highly productive people discover they are being compensated the same as less productive people, then the output of highly productive people would decrease. Consequently, the scientific management approach to motivation is based on the assumption that money is the primary motivator. Old Navy has several programs in practice, which support the scientific management approach to motivation to produce high morale. The most commonly used program used by the management was that the company offers overtime compensation for the employees who worked over the amount of hours they were scheduled per week.


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