Activity: Motivating Workers

IBDP HL & SL
Motivation: The factors that influence the behaviour of workers towards achieving set business goals.

Answer these questions

 Why do you attend school?
 Do you use both your time and resources well?
 Do you work harder in some subjects than you do in others? If you know the reasons why, then could
this help to improve the way you work in all of your subjects?

Why people work?

What motivates them to work?

You need to select at least 2 employed people preferably at different levels in hierarchy and
working in different fields and industries

Groups
Team A:
Team B:

Questionnaire: What factors that motivates you at work

place?
On the scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being very important and 1 being not important, how would the following
factors increase your motivation at work?
Each one of you will ask two people and find the average for each of the factor by combining points of
each member

Sample 1 Sample 2 Total Averag

Score e of the
for the team
factor
1 Increased Pay/ Salary/ Wages
2 Chance of Promotion
3 Recognition by Managers for a job well done
4 Flexible working hours/ options to work from home
5 Trainings, Job, increased variety of tasks, Job
enrichments, New things to learn
6 Longer holidays, More paid leaves, better pensions,
Staff discounts
7 Improved work environment: safe, clean
8 No work politics, Biases, partiality
9 Very close to my house, convenience in travelling

10 Salary/wages based on Targets, performance

11 Salary based on Number of years worked in the

institute (Experience)
12 Any other Reason:

13 Any other Reason:

Calculate Total and merge results of all the teams to come to an average score for each factor as shown below

Task 2:
Ask the same employees the stages involved in their recruitment and selection Procedure