Motivation In A Changing Workplace

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a. Family VS Work
b. The Working Environment
c. Benefits and Compensation
5. Where to From Here? – HRM Models for Innovation
a. Motivation Theory
b. Alternate Work Systems – Comparison Table




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Introduction
This paper is written from the perspective that today’s Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are, and will, continue to evolve to meet the ever changing dynamics of the modern day work environment. The never ending influx of new technologies, increasingly rapid exchanges of information, never ending social paradigm shifts and the constant restructuring of accepted family structure systems contribute profoundly to the need to find and apply methods of HRM that meet the needs of industry, workers and consumers. In order to accomplish this enormous task, vision and creativity are required, along with an on-going awareness of the need to maintain the bottom-line.
The Changing Workplace
At the opening of the 20th century, the majority of jobs in this country were held in two primary areas, those of agriculture and industry. Population distribution tables from that period illustrate that most of the nations population lived in rural areas rather than in urban city settings. This continued to be the trend until WWII, when many of the country’s men left to fight in the war and the women began to leave their farms and rural homes to fill the vacant factory jobs as their patriotic duty and contribution to the war effort. This wartime movement of people from a rural agricultural based society to a more urbanized, industrial society was the beginning of a nationwide workplace and societal change that has not only continued, but accelerated during the last half of the 20th century.
This move from rural to suburban environments greatly changed the way that we did business as a nation. Glenn (1989) writes that, “Where once extended families resided in and...