Department of effective public speaking

Presentation on motivating
people in boring jobs
Contents :-

• Introduction
• Work environment in jobs
• Various factors which make your job
boring
• How to get rid out of it during work hours
• How to motivate people in their boring
jobs
• Common message
• Jobs ,the most important thing in ones
life. In other words we can say it’s the
total outcome of their
pains,hardwork,talent .
• After a long struggle ,its time of them to
earn and enjoy their life .
• But sometimes this period of life is not
that enjoyable because of no job
satisfaction .
• It is how content one is from his or her
job.
Work environment in jobs
• For proper working we always need healthy
environment .
• Proper job environment includes healthy
communication between the colleagues ,equality
among all the employees, equal pay scale .
• People sometimes are placed on the basis of
their family background our political approach
,and they are given more preference .the really
affects the job environment.
• Now a days people of less age get high
post on the basis of their degree ,as a
result of which people elder to them have
to work under them ,that severely affects
the working environment .
• Vast age difference in the ages of the
employees .
• Employees giving less attention towards it
job and the one working hard are paid
equal .
• No rewards to the one giving 100% to the
company.
The various factors which make job
boring:-
• Long working hours without no break .
• Lack of interest in the particular job.
• Lack of proper job environment.
• Lack of job satisfaction.
• Location of the place where the office is .
• Communication gap between the
employees.
• Lack of communication with the higher
authorities .
• Dominating nature of the boss.
• No carriers scope , no scope to reach new
horizons.
• Demand of maximum output with in
limited salary .
• 6 days jobs irritates one a lot .
How to get rid from getting bored
during job:-
• Take break from whatever your allowed with
and surf the internet on websites that are pretty
generic, such as MSNBC. COM,CNN.COM.
• You could access your personal email websites
like g.mail, yahoo.
• Pressing the ALT key and the tab key at the
same time will switch your desktop back to
whatever other programs on your desktop.
• If getting away from your computer is what you
need, go out for a walk around the office.
 cont....
1. Focus on the Positives
Make a list of all the things you do at work. Find the top three you
enjoy most (or dislike the least) and focus on those . If possible, makes
those your priorities and see if you can somehow either limit or even
get rid of the tasks you truly despise.

2. Create New Tasks for Yourself

If you really dislike whatever it is you do at work, then figure out what
you CAN do that sparks your interest. Go to your boss and propose
you change your duties to include new and interesting
projects. Be careful, however, about taking on more than you can
handle.

3. Get to know new people at work

Getting to know people in other departments gives you insight
into new jobs available within your company. Ask your new
friends what it takes to break into a new department and work toward
that
Taylor’s theory for motivating people in boring
jobs…
• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 – 1917) put forward the idea
that workers are motivated mainly by pay. His Theory of
Scientific Management argued the following:
• Workers do not naturally enjoy work and so need close
supervision and control
• Therefore managers should break down production into a
series of small tasks
• Workers should then be given appropriate training and tools
so they can work as efficiently as possible on one set task.
• Workers are then paid according to the number of items they
produce in a set period of time- piece-rate pay.
• As a result workers are encouraged to work hard
and maximise their productivity.

• Taylor’s methods were widely adopted as

businesses saw the benefits of increased
productivity levels and lower unit costs. The most
notably advocate was Henry Ford who used them
to design the first ever production line, making
Ford cars. This was the start of the era of mass
production.
Why work is boring …?
The work is boring because of the following
factors:-
• Low Status
• Undervalued
• Lack of Control
• Low Demands
• Lack of Opportunities
Low status

• How do the employees see the job? Many boring jobs are
seen as dirty, boring, smelly, unsafe, and unglamorous,
with rotten hours.
• Make sure that the same social and profit sharing
opportunities are offered to all types of workers e.g.
Cleveland Bridge now invites blue-collar workers to attend
Xmas lunch previously enjoyed only by white-collared, and
offers free share options to manual workers.
• Management should work on factory floor - but not just
the once.
 Undervalued
• Do the people who perform monotonous work feel their job has value? Do
they feel valued by other people in the organisation? Many people feel their
job is meaningless; it does not matter to the business and they feel like they
are the “poor cousins”.
• Focus employees on the people affected by a task and recognise the value.
e.g keeping car owners and passengers safe, building safe and strong houses
etc.
• Engage employees in problem-solving activities; ask for their input. “What
can we do to make your job easier?” “We have a problem, how can we fix
it?” These questions recognise the value of what they do.
• Recognise publicly the value of their work and the contribution they make in
meetings, presentations and memos.
• Where ever possible, do NOT engage in downsizing the workforce one year
only to build it up in another. Avoid this yo-yo approach, all it does is confirm
how little their jobs are valued.
• Reduce the wage disparity between high and low skills workers. Initiate a
payment for skills programme - where people who expand their skills are
recognised for their extra contribution to the business.
 Lack of Control

• This is where there is low worker control over the work processes. Give
people greater power over their work. This can be achieved at an
individual level by making team managers responsible for profit and loss
on contracts, customer care quality, training, and organising shifts. Or
better yet, setting up self-managed team where everyone has
responsibility for the quality, production, customer satisfaction, training
opportunities and work organisation. Using this strategy ISS, a fast
growing Danish cleaning company, was able to reduce turnover to 20%
- one quarter of the industry average.

• If people's pay is based around piece rate pay - look at ways of giving
them back more control, setting up a team-based approach and allowing
them to become more self-directed. Piece rate pay has deleterious effect
on employee health - pressure to perform, constant monitoring, little
control lead to increased anxiety and raised blood pressure.
 Low Demands
• This is where the job lacks stimulation. Ask the
employees “How can we make your work more
interesting?” “What can we do to remove the
boredom in your tasks?”
• Job rotation programmes are a strategy that can
be used to extend people.
• Again, setting up self-directed teams where people
are made responsible for the outcomes of their
work and managing their work processes is
another method of increasing job stimulation.
 Lack of Opportunities
• Provide training and development opportunities.
Set up processes to identify the hidden
management potential in your people. Attempt to
promte within. This will ensure that talent isn’t
trapped in a dead-end job. Develop a skills
training programme or offer apprenticeships
around the role.
Boredome & Who does boredom
normally affect ?
• Boredom has been linked to high turnover, a
lack of innovation and competitive
disadvantage

• Boredom normally affect the people who works

on factory ,floors,labour on construction
sites,stacksuper market sheleves ,drive trucks
,clean offices .
Why is removing boredom
important?
It is important because-
• Boring work is a pain
• Boredom is a killer
• Labour shortage is growing .
• Lost business opportunities
• Turnover is sky –high
• Quality is replacing price as basis for competition .
Responses to Boredom
1.Refocus attention on task
2.Seek additional stimulation
 Why is Removing Boredom Important?
1. Boring Work is a Pain
• Work that is monotonous or in which the employee has little input
has been found to increase the risk for developing musculoskeletal
disorders. Boring work comprising half or more of a job significantly
predicted new onset shoulder pain (odds ratio 1.7).
• Alleviating the monotony can save your workers from work-related
pain and your business from lost productivity.
2. Boredom is a Killer
• A 23 year study of the working conditions of 5,000 households
concluded that people who spent their working lives in jobs where
they had to make the fewest decisions were 43% more likely to die
than people in jobs with a lot of decision-making opportunities. Also,
people who spent their working lives in passive jobs, described as
those with low demands and low control over what work they do
and when, were also 35% more likely to die.Labour Shortage is
Growing
• Economic Policy Institute has warned of ‘critical skill
shortages’ on factory floors; in US construction
industry, more than half a million new workers needed
by 2008 to replace retiring workers - average
construction worker is 47 years; average factory
worker is 54
• Lost Business Opportunities
Increasingly businesses are finding they are losing
contracts because they don't have enough people to
fulfill the contract.
Findings: Causes of Boredom (task)
P e rc e nta ge re s po nde nts

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45
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35
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25
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5
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Cont…
• “The work is repetitive” 29%
• “There is too much paperwork”
50%
• “Another person bores me” 15%
• The work is not demanding
enough” 16%
• “The work is too demanding” 9%
 Designing Jobs that Motivate
• Hackman and Oldham identified five factors of job
design that typically contribute to people's enjoyment of
a job:
• Skill Variety – Increasing the number of skills that
individuals use while performing work.

• Task Identity – Enabling people to perform a job from

start to finish.

• Task Significance – Providing work that has a direct

impact on the organization or its stakeholders. 
• Autonomy – Increasing the degree of decision
making, and the freedom to choose how and
when work is done. 

• Feedback – Increasing the amount of

recognition for doing a job well, and
communicate the results of people's work.
Job enrichment addresses these factors by
enhancing the job's core dimensions and
increasing people's sense of fulfillment.
Case study :-

• In recent year the basis for placement in good

companies is degree from a repute institution
• Students of the age 23,24,25,26 are easily
placed with good packages and high post
• In simbhali sugar mills there was a rapid
movement of the employees because of the
unhealthy job environment ,that was created by
the newly appointed employees.
• The was an strange feeling in the mind of
employees working there that they had to
work with the people of their children age
group and they had to work under them .
• They were working from past many years
but were not able to get that good
packages and the newly appointed
employees had .
• All this made their jobs boring and allowed
them to pack up .
• This is all what we wanted to tell all every
one , that anything can turn out to be
good ,interesting ,amazing if one takes
interest and works hard on it .
• Where there is a will there is a way
 Thank
you……