Sas Institute Motivation
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MOTIVATION IN THE WORKPLACE AT SAS INSTITUTE
When it comes to motivation in the workplace, SAS Institute seems to have it masters. No one wants to come to work every day and spend time away from their families all the time on a daily basis, but something makes us do this each and every day that we go to work. Work motivation is the factor that makes behave the way we do in order to get up and go to work every day. It determines the level of effort we are going to put into our work and our behavior about work (George & Jones, 2012). A company 's most valuable asset is its creative capital and it takes a unique company to think outside the box to find creative ways to motivate those creative employees. SAS Institute has developed a solid employee management plan that has sustained their work force and has continued to make it grow stronger. The company has been ranked the 6th in the "Best Companies to Work For" by Fortune Magazine for several years in a row and calling SAS Institute "the closest thing to a worker 's utopia in America" (Harvey, 2000). So what makes this company so great with their employee management? SAS …show more content…
In order to get the most out of their creative work force, they try to nurture as many of their needs as possible and have been very successful at it. By providing their employees with their physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem motivators, and self actualization, they have created a "workplace utopia" (Harvey, 2000). They SAS uses intrinsic motivation more than extrinsic motivation which is a different way of getting the most performance out of a work force and in turn create maximum productivity and loyalty to the company. Employees are more satisfied with their contributions and want to work hard at their
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MOTIVATION IN THE WORKPLACE AT SAS INSTITUTE
When it comes to motivation in the workplace, SAS Institute seems to have it masters. No one wants to come to work every day and spend time away from their families all the time on a daily basis, but something makes us do this each and every day that we go to work. Work motivation is the factor that makes behave the way we do in order to get up and go to work every day. It determines the level of effort we are going to put into our work and our behavior about work (George & Jones, 2012). A company 's most valuable asset is its creative capital and it takes a unique company to think outside the box to find creative ways to motivate those creative employees. SAS Institute has developed a solid employee management plan that has sustained their work force and has continued to make it grow stronger. The company has been ranked the 6th in the "Best Companies to Work For" by Fortune Magazine for several years in a row and calling SAS Institute "the closest thing to a worker 's utopia in America" (Harvey, 2000). So what makes this company so great with their employee management? SAS …show more content…
In order to get the most out of their creative work force, they try to nurture as many of their needs as possible and have been very successful at it. By providing their employees with their physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem motivators, and self actualization, they have created a "workplace utopia" (Harvey, 2000). They SAS uses intrinsic motivation more than extrinsic motivation which is a different way of getting the most performance out of a work force and in turn create maximum productivity and loyalty to the company. Employees are more satisfied with their contributions and want to work hard at their