Intro to Business › Section I · Motivating employees › Topic I.7
Trends in employee motivation
Firms that compete for skilled people increasingly treat motivation as an investment rather than a cost. This topic looks at the main ways they invest: training, open books, employee ownership, work-life benefits and new ways of managing knowledge workers, and at the absence and turnover costs that make the case for them.
In this topic
- Investing in people
- Education, training and open books
- Employee ownership and ESOPs
- Worked example: the risk of owning your employer
- Work-life benefits
- Motivating knowledge workers
- Absence and turnover
- Worked example: does a retention programme pay?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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