Motivational Practices in Organisations

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Motivational practices: a tool for sustaining competitiveness in organisations/S.C. Sivasundaram Anushan. 2. Motivate to inspire/Ayeesha Zawahir. 3. An empirical study on sales force motivation and its application/M. Balasubramanian. 4. Spice of life/V. Bharathi Ramani. 5. Motivational factors of organisational environment in nationalized banks Madurai district/K. Chandrasekaran and R. Thamarai Kannan. 6. Thank God its monday/Chithra Regis. 7. Recent motivational practices in organisation/J. Dhilipan and Kannan. 8. Motivation in practice job rotation/P. Geetha. 9. Motivation in life insurance industry/A.L. Gowri. 10. Motivation and organisational commitment/R. Harini Hingnekar and A. Kalaimathi. 11. Financial motivation to salesforce/S. Dhinesh Babu and S. Lalitha Bhuvaneswari. 12. Why P notes is this a motivational factor to foreign equity investor/M. Jaisun and R. Ayyamperumal. 13. A journey from touch of motivation to bond of motvation/Jayaprakash Jala. 14. Motivational factors influencing job satisfaction of the university and college teachers/U. Jerinabi and T. Lalitha Devi. 15. Motivation at work place/Kalpana. 16. Employee motivation in the present economic scenario/P. Kameswara Rao and N.R.V. Prabhu. 17. Motivation and organisational commitment/P.N. Kanchana. 18. Bringing positive behavioural changes in the employees/M. Manikandan and T. Ramachandran. 19. The world of motivation/H. Muthu Ganesh. 20. Employee motivation and organisational environment/B. Poongodi. 21. Managing global organisations issues, challenges and strategies/N.R.V. Prabhu and P. Kameswara Rao. 22. Motivation: concepts and theory/Kalaimathi and R. Rajalakshmi. 23. Motivation and organisation commitment/Reena. 24. Best practices for motivating bank employees/E.V. Rigin and K. Sankar Ganesh. 25. Quality of work life and its impact on employees/S. Sakthivel Rani. 26. Motivational practices in family oriented businesses to the successors/S. Sekar Subramanian and P.C. Sekar. 27. Motivational practices in hotel industry in Tirunelveli City/K. Subramanian and S.M. Asyed Mohamed Khaja. 28. Building motivation in today\'s workplace/R. Shobana Devi and P. Sundara Pandian. 29. Motivation and employee retention in Indian ITES industry/M. Shunmuga Sundaram and P. Sumathi. 30. Motivational practice in leading private sector company/B. Senthil Arasu and P. Sundara Pandian. 31. Recent motivational practices and quality of work life in a successful organisation/T.S. Uma Rani. 32. Recent motivational practices in the organisation/G. Vanishree. 33. Quality of work life and motivation/S. Varadaraj. 34. Employee\'s motivational factors: an overview/S. Venkatesan. 35. Motivation and people capability maturity model/G. Bhuvaneswari, P.T. Vijaya Rajakumar and S. Kaliyamoorthy. 36. Motivation through Shakespeare\'s Henry V and Hemingway\'s the old man and the sea/K. Muthuraman. 37. Right motivation formula/S. Nasar and D.J. Lini Mol. 38. New Employer employee relationship: a tune for company success/R. Christina Jeya Nithila, Jeyakodeeswari Pratap and Cyriac Meppuram. 39. Motivation and academic staff in higher education/N. Palaniappan. 40. Factors of organisational commitment: an overview/V. Parthiban. 41. Consumer motivation/S. Dhinesh Babu. 42. Motivation the key to empower a case study with reference to BSNL, Tirunelveli district/B. Revathy and Sheeba E. 43. Influence of variables on work life balance among women professionals/K. Sirajunisa and N. Panchanatham. 44. HR practices for motivating banking employees/P. Kameswara Rao and K. Sankar Ganesh. 45. Motivational playback to retain the BPO employees from attrition/G. Sri Devi and N. Panchanatham. 46. Factors of employee motivation in leading firm/R. Banila and Rajkumar. Index.

Organisational Motivation is a broad, complex, and elusive subject. Motivated people are crucial to create a sustainable competitive advantage for an organizations. Successful management by motivation shows that in a knowledge based society, this goal cannot be achieved by extrinsic motivation alone. The concept of motivation is by definition a relative one. Everybody times when they feel more or less motivated than they have done in the past, and this can be as the result of both internal and external pressures. Being motivated is a positive state however, and it involves being able to see the opportunities, rather than the pitfalls, in everything a person puts his mind to. To succeed companies have to find ways of fostering and sustaining intrinsic motivation.

The objective of this edited book entitled Motivational Practices in Organizations is to provide undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma students a comprehensive introduction on motivational practices followed in different organizations. The purpose of this book is to give an insight into different real life examples on motivation, through case studies and a wide range of illustrations. This book focuses solely on motivation, explaining strategies and practical steps, which managers. Human resources and training directors can adopt, one at a time to create a motivated workforce. Each articles in the book teaches us lesson and opens a new window.

With the help of in depth case studies, representative surveys and analysis based on a large number of firms and employees, this contribution of business researchers and academics identifies the various aspects of motivation in companies and shows how the right combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can be achieved.

This book is a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, teachers, researchers students managers training directors and people everywhere. This book is a guaranteed morale booster, and inspirational. The book is written in a reader friendly way, and guides the readers to learn practical ways of employee motivation in organizations. Hundred of hours of motivation will arise from this book which is filled with thought provoking illustrations about dealing effectively with life\'s professional challenges." (jacket)