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Employee Motivation

PSYL1001
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Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology
Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Brian Mandeville
Professor
3
Timeline
  • September 28, 2020
    Experience start
  • October 13, 2020
    Project Scope Meeting
  • November 28, 2020
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Leadership Organizational structure Social sciences
Skills
business consulting communication data analysis research
Learner goals and capabilities

Are you looking to motivate employees to enhance engagement and performance? In this project, a group of psychology students will interview staff, supervisors and management to determine the most effective motivational strategies. Strategies will include intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
25 learners
Project
10 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 3
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverables will include:

  • Opportunities/strategies to motivate your employees extrinsically and intrinsically.
  • Strategies to maintain and foster ongoing motivation.
Project timeline
  • September 28, 2020
    Experience start
  • October 13, 2020
    Project Scope Meeting
  • November 28, 2020
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students will work together to interview staff, supervisors and management to determine individual and team goals. Using those goals, students will create a plan to improve motivation.

This project may include, but is not limited to:

  • Developing extrinsic motivational strategies such as rewards, bonuses, time-off, etc;
  • Developing intrinsic motivational strategies such as viewpoints and perspectives;
  • Developing language guides to help supervisors and management teams maintain motivation.

The resulting content produced by students can be used to improve employee engagement, motivation and retention.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

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