Motivating Minimum Wage Research Paper
Works Cited
Bakkee, Dennis. Joy at work: A revolutionary approach to fun on the job. 1st ed. Seattle: PVG, 2
2005.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2005
Koch, Jennifer. "Tips for motivating a Low-Wage Workforce" Workforce Management August
2005: 57-58
Laliberte, Richard. "For love, not money: 10 ways to make your minimum-wage employees
passionate about their work" Success Magazine.com August 1998. 12 October2005.
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Nelson, John. "High Impact for Low-Wage Workers" Workforce Management November 2004:
47-50
Thesis: Motivating minimum wage employees is often a difficult task because they are looked down up on as pieces of …show more content…
They expect--and plan for--high turn-over among their minimum wage staff. They may refer to minimum wage employees as "grunts", and they refuse to offer these employees professional recognition commensurate with other workers. Managers may even resist allowing minimum wage workers to socialize with the rest of the subordinate staff. This treatment, I believe, has come about because we tend to expect less from minimum wage workers based simply on the fact that they're paid less than others whom we employ. We've conditioned ourselves to believe that these workers cannot be adequately motivated to perform well, and we presume that we should just tolerate whatever performance level we get from them as long as they show up for work and don't cause …show more content…
Small gestures, especially if they seem to bend the rules a wee bit, can also foster a healthy, inside-circle mentality. For example, at the end of one job that consisted of setting up and tearing down a weekend air show, my boss snuck us into the back of one of the U-Hauls and passed out beers. He was like a football coach who knew how to give instructions, but every now and then lets down his guard. So, we worked hard for him. Of course it doesn't have to be that extream - a little party for each employee on their birthday--complete with a cake and soft drinks would probably do the trick. It's not a big expense, and it wouldn't take a lot of time away from the working
Bakkee, Dennis. Joy at work: A revolutionary approach to fun on the job. 1st ed. Seattle: PVG, 2
2005.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2005
Koch, Jennifer. "Tips for motivating a Low-Wage Workforce" Workforce Management August
2005: 57-58
Laliberte, Richard. "For love, not money: 10 ways to make your minimum-wage employees
passionate about their work" Success Magazine.com August 1998. 12 October2005.
< http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3514/is_n8_v45/ai_21037687#continue>
Nelson, John. "High Impact for Low-Wage Workers" Workforce Management November 2004:
47-50
Thesis: Motivating minimum wage employees is often a difficult task because they are looked down up on as pieces of …show more content…
They expect--and plan for--high turn-over among their minimum wage staff. They may refer to minimum wage employees as "grunts", and they refuse to offer these employees professional recognition commensurate with other workers. Managers may even resist allowing minimum wage workers to socialize with the rest of the subordinate staff. This treatment, I believe, has come about because we tend to expect less from minimum wage workers based simply on the fact that they're paid less than others whom we employ. We've conditioned ourselves to believe that these workers cannot be adequately motivated to perform well, and we presume that we should just tolerate whatever performance level we get from them as long as they show up for work and don't cause …show more content…
Small gestures, especially if they seem to bend the rules a wee bit, can also foster a healthy, inside-circle mentality. For example, at the end of one job that consisted of setting up and tearing down a weekend air show, my boss snuck us into the back of one of the U-Hauls and passed out beers. He was like a football coach who knew how to give instructions, but every now and then lets down his guard. So, we worked hard for him. Of course it doesn't have to be that extream - a little party for each employee on their birthday--complete with a cake and soft drinks would probably do the trick. It's not a big expense, and it wouldn't take a lot of time away from the working