Motivation
After discussing motivation in today's class, I just wanted to share an experience I had with motivation in the workplace. My first job was at Taco Bell, and it was the worst job I ever had. Although I was barely paid over minimum wage ($5.50 an hour), the worst part of the job was working with some of my co-workers. It was painfully obvious that the majority of the people there did not want to work at Taco Bell, and this made it very difficult to work with them. Because different tasks needed to be completed, I often found myself doing the majority of the work on some of my shifts, as no one else was motivated enough to do their own part. I quickly lost the motivation to work hard at Taco Bell because I found the job very unfair. Although in class we focused on individual performance and incentives, I believe that the work of your co-workers can have a greater effect on a worker's motivation.
Comments
Posted by: Svetlana Binshtok
Posted on: October 10, 2006 01:07 AM
That work place seems to be a very poorly managed company and there is definitely a lack in competition among workers. What could your employer have done to motivate the lazier workers and to make the job more fair? Should you have been rewarded for picking up the slack?