MOTIVATION

Motivations are the internal or external factors that stimulate the energy, the desire and the willingness to be committed to some goal, job or activity. The motivating factors can be positive or negative and also can last just a month or years. The motivation can be impart from people to themselves as self-motivator or to someone else like a motivator.

Exist three very recognized ways to motivate people, those are: fear, reward and attitude. The first one is about making people to do something because there an intangible thing that they feel threatened for example the job, the respect, or even the fear of making a mistake. This is not a good motivator because causes resentment, resistance and revenge. The reward is the assurance that is something is done; the person will receive some payment for. Is not recommendable because it does not last in time and also people is like expecting the reward in order to achieve something so it becomes inefficient. Finally is the attitude is as simple as doing things because of who you are and you feel good doing it.

 

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MONEY AND MOTIVATION

I think that the economic retribution is not enough to keep people motivated, there many other things that would encourage people to fight for a goal and those are the feeling of importance; when your boss makes a comment about how well you did a task, in front of someone even more important. This makes people to feel big and essential so they feel that must keep doing things right. Another way of motivate people is reminding them how important are their assignment (even if it is not) because if employees feel that they are developing something vital, they will do it better.

So, now we can say that emotional source of motivation could be very powerful (admiration and respect) but we should not demerit the power that money has, because it cannot be seeing as motivator but certainty the lack of money is a strong demotivator.

RAO, V. S. (17 de August de 2010). Recuperado el 28 de february de 2011, de human resource management: http://www.citeman.com/10101-money-and-motivation/

                http://www.hrconsultingadvisor.net/money-as-motivation-for-employees.html

                https://methotology.com/Motivation_Definitions.html

CORPORATE CULTURE

Nowadays, corporate culture is a very important factor for business success but what is it about? Well, in simple words the corporate culture can be defined as a force that leads people within an organization to make things exactly how they usually do. The corporate culture involves from the greeting to the way people communicate vital issues to the organization. Building a good corporate culture is not an easy thing to do. It takes time and effort to make employees to be familiarized to the processes and the “how we do things around here”.  Therein of transmitting the culture, old employees play a major role because when new people is hired, they are who teach them how to do thing and step by step they end up adapting to the corporate culture.

It is also important to study why is essential the CC? I think that the answer is related to what we can achieve when having a strong corporate culture but as we know not everything had to be perfect. So let’s see the positive and negative aspects of having a strong CC.

Positive:

 

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The strong corporate culture improves the communication so we can say that when you are the boss of one department of an organization with a strong CC, the working instructions will be effectively transmitted which makes the work to be done in similar method, this increases the productivity.

Other vital aspects also increase, like the loyalty of employees what makes of dismissing something to be avoided. People working in a place with a good work environment are certainly most motivated and active workers.

Also, management control is better, which gives to managers the confident and tranquility of knowing what is what their employees are doing and how are they doing it.

Negative:

 

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In multinational corporations with a strong CC, there is a moment when appears a clash between the local national culture and the imported one. Here is when good cross-cultural managers must to do a perfect work because in many cases it is hard to be managed.

In a large company, usually there is not a common corporate culture but they are divided by sub-cultures when this happens is very likely to have problems between one sub-culture another.

References:

tutor2u. (s.f.). Recuperado el 28 de february de 2011, de tutor2u: http://tutor2u.net/business/organisation/culture_more.htm

BLOGS INTERESTING TO ME

1. The blog that really call my attention is named “la vuelta al mundo de Asun y Ricardo”, this is like a travel guide wrote by an elderly couple from Spain that decided to travel around the world because of their  25^th anniversary but all by their own enjoying their trip exactly how they decided to do it, without intermediaries. So, they show to the people common things that you faces when traveling, like delayed flights, damaged baggage, but not only but things  but also they talk about beautiful places, events and interesting things to see and do thus at one of the world as in the other.

 Source: Volcan loquimay, chile (23 de febrero/08).Recuperado 10 de febrero/10 de: http://mundoporlibre.com/2008/06/termas-y-volcn-lonquimay-chile-da-23-de.html

The places where the stayed were usually hotels, homes of friends, hostels, and family pensions. I found fascinating how this couple was totally uncomplicated, they enjoyed they trips how it should be, spending time with natives, for they to show to the travelers the wonders of each place, also being able to get contact with the culture as is it, not how it want to be showed. Finally I can only say that when I deciding to travel around the world (someday I hope) I will follow their advices and their tourist guide; But the most important to live every place like home.

Blog link: http://mundoporlibre.com/2008/11/diario-de-nuestra-vuelta-al-mundo.html

2.       This is not a common blog, this is about menopause woman that tells with humor how she see the world, tells the things that she has experienced dealing with the terrible hormones. She decided to open her blog when she realizes in what had become, who she let the menopause to manage and totally changed her live. So, she thought that was the right moment to do something else, to get out of the routine of job, tantrums and bad times. The thing that most engrossed me into the blog (nominated to best humor blog) is how she chose to change her live when there is a thousand of women that become a different person when being around 50´s and even most interesting, she tells it with humor, making fun of people with an ugly truth.

Blog link: http://menopausaloldbag.blogspot.com/

3. Happy vegan yogini, this is a vegan food blog, mixed with amazing experience of practicing yoga. The blog is written by a girl call Carrie she is a yoga instructor in the United States, reading her blog, the only thing that I can say is that she is vegan but not like a  “militant vegan” because she has no problem in using ingredients from animal (like milk, cheese, etc…). Frequently she blogs with whole new recipe not only of salads but she create sauces to accompany the meal, also soups, entrees, desserts, pasta, etc… I really liked, I think is a well-designed blog with an interesting topic to me. Now I feel that I have no reason to not to explore that world (it does not mean that I am going to become vegetarian).

http://veganyogini.blogspot.com/