Apply It 12.5: Strategies for Motivating Employees

  • Understand how job characteristics theory can enhance worker motivation
  • Recognize how goal setting can improve worker performance

Motivation Strategies

This Apply It continues using the return to in-office work case study video from earlier in this module. The video is included below in case you want to refresh your memory about specific details, but if you have already watched it, you don’t need to watch it again.

The video presents various approaches companies are taking to work arrangements, from full return-to-office to hybrid models.

You can view the transcript for “Why Corporate America Is Abandoning Remote Work” here (opens in new window).

The video suggests that RTO mandates can be a “magic wand” that companies hope will solve complex problems. Using goal-setting theory, what more specific and measurable approaches might better address organizational challenges?