Thread: Employee Relations and Motivation

This broadly addresses the topic of employee relations and work motivation. It examined theories and models of motivation that strive to answer the question of what motivates and how is motivation harnessed. At the individual level of analysis, there is a plethora of different approaches, most of which have some conceptual viability, empirical support and practical use. A critical task for future thinking and research is to integrate findings from diverse sources in order to be able to produce a more coherent view of motivation, its content and mechanisms. Contemporary research aspires to a more integrated perspective, but progress is slow due to difficulties forming conceptual links and a difficulty comparing studies (due to non-comparability of constructs and measurement). Some argue that motivation denotes, and is, perhaps, best treated as an umbrella term pertaining to a set of motivational issues rather than striving to pin it down as a precisely defined and measurable construct.
The psychology of group, team and leadership processes is also examined. It is frustrating to find yet more theories and models within distinctive domains of investigation and a general lack of cross-fertilization. Thus, whilst leadership processes are without doubt, inextricably linked with group and team processes, there is little communication across these domains of research. The ‘leader’ is extracted from the group or team context in which they do their leading, and thus is thus effectively investigated in a vacuum. Yet leadership is a two-way process, influenced as much by followers as leaders. The psychological contract literature holds some promise for integrating considerations of leadership with those of the motivated employee more generally. The leader may ‘represent’ the organization in the process of exchanging reward for effort and as such, may hold the key to understanding motivational processes. The literature on group processes is also distinct from the literature on teams and even the team building literature stands alone, as an isolated consideration. Yet, there is an enormous social psychological literature on group processes potentially relevant to our understanding of what constitutes an effective team. This has sought in some small way to bridge each domain of investigation by forging potential links and avenues for fruitful

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