Project 5

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Mina Prophitt

South University

Dr. Brooke Griggs

Organization Behavior and Communication

April 18, 2021

Alphabet Inc., is an organization that is based in Mountain view, California. This is one of the important founding companies for technology business. The employee of this company has been complaining over time for low job motivation. The company has therefore decided to make some changes that may improve employee job motivation. As a consultant in this company. I am therefore suggesting changes that would help in improving the performance of the company through the motivation that will be received by the employees. Some employees have noted that they are not happy on the job, saying the job is boring. Some have noted that they are being micromanaged by their bosses, yet they are never told how they are doing, whether they should improve their performance or not. Some employees have complained of being in the same position for a long period of time, but they are never allowed to make their contributions on how to make their work better. This therefore calls for organizational change that will take into consideration all of the complaints raised by the employees in Alphabet Inc. organization that will help in making the employees feel recognized and appreciated in the organization. (Al-Ali, 2017)

The changes that I would recommend in this company to help in motivating the employees would depend on a number of factors, these include considering what motivates the employees the most. I would consider what motivates the employees the most after interviewing them to determine the changes that would be relevant to the organization in order to improve the general performance of the organization. Another thing that I would do is to ask the employees what demotivates that and what makes them feel demoralized in the company. Also, I would interview the employees on what they exactly want from work. For instance, the employee that complained of not having involved in making the organizational changes irrespective of him having worked for the organization for a long period of time.

I would inquire if the employees wanted a more interesting work, more efficient bosses in the company, having more opportunities to have a look at the end results of their work, if they want a greater participation on the decisions made in the organization. If they want to be recognized more than what they are now and if they wanted a greater challenge on the job.

Some of the changes that I would make in the organization to ensure employees are motivated include introducing walking the job in the company. That is, I would encourage the managers of this company to always motivate the employees to do better by telling them that they have done better whenever they find them doing something interesting. The interest that is shown should be genuine and avoid going overboard or making more appeals to watch over the employee’s shoulders. In the case that the managers of this company have ideas of how the employees’ work should be improved, they should not shout them out, instead, these employees should be assisted in finding their way. The managers of this organization should set good examples by encouraging the employees for them to earn respect from the workers.

I would also request the managers and other stakeholders to remove demotivators from the organization. Managers of this organization should identify the factors that demotivates the staff and remove them or improve them to help motivate the employees. Such factors may be working hours. The employees may be bored in the company because of being exposed to work for long hours without any break which makes them get fatigued. Other factors may be the buildings and how they appear. Sometimes having too old buildings that are not attractive to the employees and those that are so dusty may demoralize the workers from wanting to report to work daily, therefore setting new and attractive buildings would be better as this would serve as motivation to the employees who would want to be in their new offices always. I would advocate for removal of psychological problems such as boredom, unfairness on the job such as having some employees being paid better than others yet they the same qualifications and performance. Barriers to promotion and lack of recognition should be removed from the organization.

Another way of enhancing motivation is through support. Managers should demonstrate support to the employees such as helping them out while sick, when they are in need, they should be shown love and care by the managers in order for them to feel comfortable working for the organization. Demonstrating care towards employees helps in motivating them to work harder for the organization as they will understand that they will be given any assistance whenever need arises.

Improve the rate of fringe benefits instead of issuing out money to the employees as a way of motivation to them. The fringe benefits can motivate the employees better than cash. This is because employees may take such benefits are things done out of love rather than money that is common to every other employee in any organization. For instance, giving employees some days off to go enjoy for vacations is better than giving them money without the time to use the money itself. Therefore, employees can be motivated by being allowed to enjoy themselves out than being given the cash in terms of salary increments for good performance.

After listening to staff on what they want, it is good for the managers to take action and make organizational change that favors the employees making them comfortable working in the company. This helps in ensuring that the employees remain in the company for long period of time working and happily feeling motivated.

The organizational changes that will take place in this organization to motivate employee performance include: first, change in management. Top managers will have to be changed in this organization and bring in new ones. This will be done to ensure that the employees are comfortable with the people that they work with. Employees are many in an organization and cannot be sacrificed for one person in the name of a manager. For instance, the owners of this company should look for ways of changing management in order to show the employees that they care about their welfare. Taking an example of a football team, when players are not satisfied with the managers, the team owners change the managers of the teams to motivate the players but do not sell the players. Alphabet Inc. company should therefore change its managers to bring in those that will motivate the employees. Staff who are complaining of not being recognized may not be in good terms with the current managers. Improving their pay may not help them much but changing who managers them may bring a lot of change in the organization. (Idris,2018)

Another way of bringing change in this organization that can help in motivating the employees can be innovations. Workers are complaining of a boring working condition, this may be due to working with the same systems over long period of time. The company should therefore bring in new innovations that will change the working styles of the employees. For example, if the workers were using manual systems in carrying out their duties, introduce the digital systems such as online working to remove the boredom from the workers. Bringing in new innovations such as use of social media in for marketing may interest most of the employees who like using the social media platforms to also show off themselves. This will give them enough time to use the internet instead of burying themselves into physical files always. Another way of innovation could be introducing remote working ad allowing the employees who wish to work from home to stay at home for as long as they will perform their duties as expected by the company. For instance, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic, many employees would not want to expose themselves to the dangers of conducting the disease by working in the more crowded places. Therefore, introducing remote working can motivate such employees to perform even better than when they were at the office physically. (Arif, 2017)

The change implementation plan that will be used in ensuring that there is no resistance to change will be involving the employees in the change. This is done by communicating to the employees about the change in time so that they contribute by giving decisions on what they wanted in the organization.

Communication should be made about the changes through emails to communicate to the employees about the changes to be made in the organization and explaining to them properly how the changes will be implemented and the reasons for change.

References

Al-Ali, A. A., Singh, S. K., Al-Nahyan, M., & Sohal, A. S. (2017). Change management through leadership: the mediating role of organizational culture. International Journal of Organizational Analysis.

Arif, M., Zahid, S., Kashif, U., & Sindhu, M. I. (2017). Role of leader-member exchange relationship in organizational change management: Mediating role of organizational culture. International journal of organizational leadership, 6, 32-41.

Idris, A., See, D., & Coughlan, P. (2018). Employee empowerment and job satisfaction in urban Malaysia: Connecting the dots with context and organizational change management. Journal of Organizational Change Management.