A Motivational tool called Positive Reinforcement

Do we care to commend the achievements of our employees?

There are Managers who do not care about the achievements of their employees. For reasons known only to themselves they just don’t care about it they let it pass without recognizing them. This inaction for an achievement is unacceptable for managers who desire to motivate their employees.

Positive reinforcement is an inexpensive but very effective motivational tool that is always available for leaders/managers. For example, if a leader/manager is aware that one of his employees is exceptionally performing in his/her job. It is but proper that the manager/leader positively reinforce this very good work behavior.  

If giving of written citation is not our type of positive reinforcement. A verbal commendation is also an option that we can use.  We have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we would care to recognize a deserving employee. We can just imagine the moral boost that it will create in our employees psyche.

There are many more inexpensive ways to positively reinforce an exceptional work accomplishment. We just need to be creative on how to do it, what is important is we always recognize a good work accomplishment/behavior.

This kind of motivational technique always has a positive effect on a worker’s behavior, just try it. - Marino J. Dasmarinas

Can the need for Affiliation influence an employee’s Motivational Drive?

No man is an island! No matter what kind of organization we are in, we need to communicate. We need to belong; we need people whom we can talk to and who will listen to us. So it’s very obvious that there’s a need to be connected with our fellow employees in an organization: this is an employee’s need for affiliation.

Can we use affiliation as a motivational drive? Yes we can! Once we commend a worker for a job well done we positively affiliate ourselves to that worker and naturally it creates a positive motivational force within him.

We should also give free space for employees to communicate and interact with each other. For this is part and parcel of their freedom as employees. We are in a democratic world that’s why we must allow our workers to fulfill their need for affiliation. Provided, that they do it during break time and not during their working hours.

Thus, by giving our employees freedom to affiliate with their fellow employees. We create an impression in their minds that the organization that they belong doesn’t curtail their rights to affiliate with their co-workers. By doing so we can also avoid negative behavioral problems from cropping up in the future.

We must always remember that curtailment of an employee’s freedom to affiliate would only result in their demotivation. And to have a demotivated workforce is not good for any organization. - Marino J. Dasmarinas