Management -Telecommuting

For this Module 2 Case Assignment, you will prepare a blog entry with the title: “My company has offered me a chance to work remotely. Should I telecommute? How can I stay motivated working from home? If I decide to work from home, what can my company do to help me stay highly motivated?” What is a blog assignment? A blog is like a conversation between you and the world. It is like having a conversation just with yourself, too. In this particular blog, you are given questions that you are to respond to in your blog (conversation). Like a regular essay assignment, your blog entry will have cover and reference pages. Your blog entry should be the equivalent of a 3-page paper. Also, be sure to use in-text citations and a reference list, with at least 2 scholarly references for support. You can write the blogs in first person since the assignment is not an essay paper. For administrative purposes, please add a title page so that your assignment can be readily identified. Each entry should have a heading to separate it from the next entry. Your blog entry should discuss the following: • What motivates you? Seeing progress in a task that needs to be completed. Making a difference whether it ensuring the company’s mission is met or assisting customers • How do Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg’s Two-Factor • Theory explain your own and other employees’ motivation? • How can employees remain highly motivated when telecommuting? • What can they do to motivate themselves? What can the company do to motivate telecommuting employees? • Will you become a telecommuter? Why or why not? Yes, telecommuting is beneficiary to employees who live long distance, safer for the environment or have outside responsibilities that may interfere with being in the office daily. To reinforce your background reading in the textbook, review the following videos: Alanis Business Academy. (2012, August 11). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3qR3gLh60. Standard YouTube License. Alanis Business Academy. (2013, February 9). Frederick Herzberg’s two-factor theory of motivation [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB2wiubO0fM. Standard YouTube License. Organizational behavior. (2017). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Edition. Retrieved from http://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/. CC BY-NC-SA License. Read the following sections in Chapter 5: Section 5.2 Need-based theories of motivation Section 5.3 Process-based theories Read the following sections in Chapter 6: Section 6.3 Motivating Employees through Goal Setting Section 6.5 Motivating Employees through Performance Incentives Peck, E. (2015, March 18). Proof that working from home is here to stay: Even Yahoo still does it. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/the-future-is-happening-now-ok_n_6887998.html Optional Reading Luthans, F., Luthans, K. W., & Luthans, B. C. (2015). Chapter 6: Motivational needs, processes, and applications. In Organizational behavior: An evidence-based approach. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing. Available in the Trident Online Library. (Go to Additional Library Sources under the search box, then choose EBSCO eBook Collection, type in Luthans Organizational Behavior in the Summon search box; check book/ebook on the left.)