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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Managing People: Connecting Motivation and Performance
University of Reading and Henley Business School
This course explored the connections between motivation, job satisfaction, well-being and performance using management theory. It encouraged reflection and application of best practice through a peer assessed task.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Henley Business School
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Examine the link between motivation, job satisfaction and performance
- Explain the features of key theories of motivation and assess how these theories might increase motivation in different situations in the workplace
- Define personal practices that will help you to create a more motivating work environment including identifying what motivates you
- Understand the nature of stress and be able to scrutinise stress management interventions
- Apply this understanding to management practice
Syllabus
Week 1
- An introduction to the course
- The psychological contract and how these are managed
- Job satisfaction
- Causes and impacts of stress
Week 2
- Stress management within organisations
- Introduction to motivation
- Defining motivation
Week 3
- Content theories of motivation
- Process theories of motivation
- Encouraging motivation in the workplace
Issued on 21st July 2019
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