Motivation - managers

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Your name Company

What is your job title?

What's the total number of people employed by your company?

With which type of management approach are you more closely aligned with:

Theory X - In order to achieve high performance the company needs an efficient system for control and supervision. Management should be focused on supervising the team and ensuring everyone is progressing on their tasks as expected

Theory Y - In order to achieve high performance the company should foster the proper environment for the employees to unleash their potenital. Management should be focused on clearing roadblocks that impede the employees' productivity.

What motivatational practices do you use?

1. Training based on employee preferences for personal development path

2. Taking employee preference into account when assigning tasks

3. Systematic feedback of employee satisfaction with the working conditions in the form of surveys, interviews and the like

4. Financial rewards based on individual performance (bonuses for outstanding personal achivements)

5. Financial rewards based on team performance (bonuses for outstanding team achievements)

6. Financial rewards not based on performance (bonuses for holidays or when the company is doing well)

7. Non-financial rewards (some formal praise for achievement or any other form of recognition)

8. Establishing and encouraging team identity (team slogans, mugs, t-shirts, plaques and other items with team name, logo or slogan)

9. Team-building excercises focusing on group problem solving

10. Team events, focused on pastime and entertainment

11. Granting enough time for addressing technical challenges and experimenting with new technologies that are not directly related to the current tasks

12. Formal performance reviews

13. On-site entertainment, like table tennis, pool, foosball, darts and the like

14. Involvement in determining schedules

15. Involvement in making decisions that affect the employees, like choosing projects, deciding on equipment ot be bought, etc.

16. Providing full understanding of how each team member's task fits in the larger landscape, and the purpose of the project in general

17. Providing full understanding of the deadlines that the people are supposed to hit and the reasons behind them

Which of these practices do you consider the most efficient? List the top five in order of perceived efficiency

Have you ever requested from your subordinates to work overtime?

Yes

Have they ever volunteered to work overtime?

Yes

Everyone has heard of the "superstar" software engineers that impress with the mastery of a wide range of skills. Have you ever had one in your team?

Yes

Please write a few benefits that the superstars bring to the organization (you can leave the field blank if you can't think of any, or just enter a single one)

How many days of company-sponsored training (or whole day equivalents of part time trainings) on average did members of your team attend for the past year

How many days a year do you consider appropriate (if more than the actual value, but you couldn't arrange it for one reason or another)

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