Assignment Content There are many times in the workplace where you will have to

Assignment Content
There are many times in the workplace where you will have to justify your ideas and why you think that a project should be undertaken.
It is important to understand how to explain your ideas to demonstrate the thinking behind them and provide a cohesive plan to initiate the project.
This week you will prepare a situational motivation proposal. A proposal is designed to allow you to present, justify, and analyze your ideas. It should include an analysis of the impact of situational motivation on the human behavior of your employees, as well as practical aspects of how your motivational project should work.
Proposals need to include literature reviews, so you will need to make sure that you include information from at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles in your assignment. Proposals also include information about outcomes and benefits from the project/study.
Imagine you are a manager who wants to increase your employees’ level of situational motivation. You have been asked to prepare a situational motivation proposal to present to your general manager on this issue.
Remember that situational motivation refers to the motivation individuals experience when they are currently engaging in an activity, and it results in the behavior of those individuals.
Write a 1,050-1,400-word situational motivation proposal. The proposal must contain the following information:
What behavior do you seek to accomplish for your employees?
What issues currently exist with employee behaviors? (Provide specific issues here.)
What employee behavior would you like to change? (Make sure that you include at least 2 specific behaviors that need to be changed.)
What role does situational motivation play in achieving this behavioral change?
What is your objective to increase their level of situational motivation?
Be clear and succinct in defining the issue and what it is you are proposing to do for the employees.
Why do you want to change employee behavior?
In addition to providing information about the project, you also must conduct a thorough review of the literature and provide convincing evidence that it is a worthwhile project.
What does the literature say about the importance of increasing situational motivation to improve employee behavior?
Include at least 2 motivational theories to support your proposed employee behavior change. How do the theories that you brought in relate to the changes that you are making? What is that connection? Make sure to clearly relate your theories to your proposed changes, and how they connect with each other. The theories should be similar to (or from) the list of 33 on pages 54-55 in the course text (i.e. Self-Determination Theory, Maslow, Achievement Theory).
Analyze how implementation of this motivation theory would impact employee engagement in terms of motivation. What does this look like for employees? (This is a great place to include information from journal articles—note that the electronic reserve readings (ERR) has some great sources that you can use for this.)
How are you going to implement your planned employee behavior change?
What actions will you take to accomplish your plan?
Provide specific steps that you will take to help employees.
Make sure that what you propose is realistic and is something that could actually happen in a work setting.
How do these changes relate to employee’s motivation?
Keep in mind that an effective proposal is judged on the quality of your writing. It is, therefore, important that your writing is coherent, clear, and compelling. As this is to be a professional assignment, the first person (I/me) statements should not be included. This type of assignment would be written in a regular paragraph format and follow this type of set-up:
Introduction – this should contain information that covers all areas in a few sentences.
Explanation of the issue at hand and brief description of proposed change
Review of literature (i.e. theories and research)
In-depth discussion of proposed change, including steps to be taken and how those steps relate to the theory and research available
Discussion as to how the change would be beneficial in the workplace
Conclusion – this should tie together all parts of the proposal.
Note that a separate title and reference page do need to be included.
Follow APA formatting, and cite and reference the outside information that you bring in. Also, don’t forget to double-space your assignment.