Creating an Academic Electronic Poster: Strategies for Motivating Employees in Business

Requirements: what do you need to do for this assessment? �

For this assessment, you will create an academic electronic poster to showcase how a business motivates its employees.

Assume that you work in the human resources department of a national company of your choice. The ongoing low employee morale and low motivation have been causing a reduction in labour productivity, which has resulted in your company losing competitiveness in the industry. You must create a poster to demonstrate how the company can support the employees in the company�s effort to improve motivation and morale at work. Your academic electronic poster will form part of the Action Plan board meeting, at the end of the financial year.

The academic electronic poster must display motivation theories and the financial and non-financial methods of motivation. You need to demonstrate how motivation theories studied in class apply to specific situations.

Your academic electronic poster will be a Microsoft Power Point single slide equating A1 in size, if printed, which is 59.4 x 84.1 cms.

The design of the poster should include the following information:

1.A very brief overview of the company�s operations, the number of employees and scale of operations

2.Motivation theories

3.Financial and non-financial motivators

The poster should follow a certain academic style, for example, the use of sub-headings and clear sections.

The academic poster should contain four sections:

1.Introduction:

Introduce the company of your choice, where it is based, its operations and outline the size and scale of the organisation.

2.Motivation Theories

Outline the key features of 2 of the motivation theories studied in class.

3.Financial and non-financial motivators:

Describe, clearly, 4 types of financial or non-financial motivators.

Explain how the company already employs or may employ each of these motivators; then, explain the advantages and potential disadvantages of each motivator. �

You must outline how each of these motivators satisfy some of the points outlined in section 2.

In addition to the company�s website, you are expected to use academic sources. You must use in-text citations and include a Harvard style reference list.

Theory and/or task resources required for the assessment:

1.Public, private and voluntary sectors

2.Business size, scale, aims and purpose

3.Motivation theories

In addition to the resources listed in your module handbook, you must conduct independent secondary research for this assessment.

Assessment referencing style:

You are expected to use a minimum of three relevant sources for the poster. One of these sources will be the website of the organisation that you have chosen.

You must use in-text citations and include a Harvard style reference list at the bottom of your poster.

Expected word count:

This will vary depending on the style of the poster, and the number of graphics used.

Learning Outcomes Assessed:

• Identify, describe and explain the key features, purpose and aims of different business classifications and different business sectors �
• Describe the key internal features, functional areas and activities of modern business and explain how they contribute to the business enterprise

Submission Requirements:

You must include the following paragraph on your title page:

I/we confirm that this assignment is my/our own work. �

Where I/we have referred to academic sources, I/we have provided in-text citations and included the sources in the final reference list.

You must submit the assessment electronically via the VLE module page.

Please ensure that you submit it via Turnitin.

Assessments submitted after the submission deadline may incur penalties or may not be accepted.

How will this assessment be marked?

The assessment will be marked using four marking criteria as follows:

Knowledge & Understanding (25% of the marks):

How relevant the content of the poster is and the extent to which you have used details and explanations in the poster.

How well you demonstrated an understanding of the motivational theories and financial and non-financial motivators.

Analysis and Evaluation (25% of the marks): �

How relevant content to the chosen business organisation

Analysis of how the company employs or may employ financial and non-financial motivators and evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages.

How these motivators satisfy the arguments made by motivation theorists.

Use of sources and support (25% of the marks):

How well researched your poster is and how well you used information to support your presentation.

Academic Skills (25% of the marks):

How well you have organised your ideas so that they are clear to the reader. How well you have presented and formatted your work, how well you have used graphics, colour and suitable font style and size. How accurately you have used the Harvard referencing system for in-text citations and the final reference list.

You will receive a mark for each of these categories, and your overall mark will be the total of the four assessment criteria. This assignment is marked out of 100.

How will you get feedback?

Your tutor will mark the assessment and provide you with a written feedback sheet.

You can use this feedback to guide your future learning.

Unfortunately, as an AI language model, I don't have the ability to create visual designs or posters. However, I can provide you with some tips and guidance on how to create an academic electronic poster to showcase how a business motivates its employees:

Start with a clear and concise title: Your title should be attention-grabbing and accurately reflect the content of your poster. For example, "Motivating Employees: Strategies Used by Top-Performing Businesses". Include an introduction: Provide a brief overview of your topic and why it is important. This can include statistics or research to support your claims.

Outline your research methodology: Describe the research methods you used to gather information for your poster. This could include surveys, interviews, case studies, or literature reviews. Discuss the strategies used by businesses to motivate employees: In this section, describe the various strategies that businesses use to motivate their employees. You can categorize these strategies by monetary incentives, non-monetary incentives, or a combination of both. Provide examples of each strategy and discuss how they have been successful in motivating employees.