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Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Organizational Behavior

By

Marlene Seratt

AIU

MGT322-0702A-05

Concepts in Organizational Behavior

Instructor

Lionel de Souza

Unit 2

Due: 05/12/2007

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Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the FMC Green River facility is looking to transform from a traditional organization to FMC Aberdeen facility "no fear" system. A highly motivational management is needed to help increase the employee motivation of the new changes that will be taking place in the Green River. There needs to be a manager to develop relationships with the employees. This will help them to be motivated by structural organizational systems such as job design and goal setting, performance appraisal, pay, and career development. With a motivational manager, these are ways to help them have a clear understanding of what it will take for them to move into the "no fear" system a lot easier.

Job Design and Goal Setting

Job design is the process of linking specific jobs and deciding what techniques, equipment and procedures need to be used to be able to perform job tasks more efficiently. (George & Jones, 2005) When an employee knows exactly what their job is and how to do it, it can be very motivational, especially if they do it very well. When knowing these details the employee can learn to set goals for themselves on who the job is going to be done. In Aberdeen the company is build on trust of all employees. They eliminated the cause to have supervisors and foremen by setting up teams that have to have high standards. They do not have job descriptions and everyone knows how to do all jobs in the plant, where as at the Green River plant everyone is assigned to certain jobs that they do day in and day out. Motivation is a lot better at Aberdeen. They do not worry there about losing their jobs and everyone is willing to help wherever they can to get the

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job done. This does not happen in Green River because everyone is assigned a job to do. To start trying to make Green River to progress to the new system they need to make goal setting a major importance to the employees. It is up to the manager to inform the employees about the new vision that the company is looking at and include the employees in setting goals. This will help them to become motivated.

Performance Appraisal

Performance appraisal is used by many companies to show the employee how they are performing their job and what they can do to make it better. This is a form of motivating the employee and getting them involved in the own future and goal setting with the company. Aberdeen employees are evaluated by their team members. They do get feedback all the time from team members as they have their meeting. They do not worry about what is going to be said during their performance appraisal, because they work together all the time, and they have trust in their team mates. At Green River, the performance appraisal is done by the manager. With all of the 1500 employees it would be so hard to do a fair appraisal of each employee. A manager can not possibly know how well an employee is doing. With a manager having to evaluate so many people they will not really be able to know the quality of work a person does. You run a chance of having your evaluation on a manager's bad day, or a bad day for the employee. Green River could use both systems for evaluating their employees. They could use the Aberdeen way of using peers evaluating and management evaluation. This will help the employee to feel comfortable talking with a co-worker. Then this person can talk with the manager and give them a different view of the person they are evaluating. It can be very helpful as the

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co-work knows the employee getting evaluated a lot better. This can help the workers self-esteem and start creating trust between employees.

Pay

In most companies performance appraisals are used to decide if the employee gets a raise or now. This is known as merit pay. At Aberdeen the employees are paid a salary. They do not have annual bonuses, profit sharing, or stock options. (Clawson, 2005) Instead they work for certain days off. Green River is some of the highest paid employees by their job description. As we look at the way both Aberdeen and Green River differ in pay, we see that Aberdeen does not get paid as much, and they seem to not mind. This is not what motivates them to enjoy their jobs. It is the job satisfaction and the sense of responsibility that makes them feel good. Green River pays its employees by the hours they work. To get these employees motivated they need to have some incentives to help them will job satisfaction. Have some kind of flex time to do something personal would be a good start. This would help them to not have to use vacation time is attend a school function of their children or some other personal errand they need to do. This would be a good motivation factor. They could also have some kinds of activities set up like a basketball hoop that some people could do during lunch time. This could encourage employees to start getting to know each other better. There are too many activities to mention, but a creative mind can come up will all kinds. Get the employees involved in choosing the activities can motivate them.

Career Development

The career goals that an employee wants for their self can be used as another

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