MGT 311 Week 3 Motivation Action Plan

Employee Portfolio Motivation Action Plan

MGT/311: Organizational Development

After careful review of the self-assessments administered to three of Riordan's employees, the following motivation action plan details the strategies suggested for each employee based on individual characteristics in an attempt to maintain or increase his or her levels of motivation.

In regard to employee Brian Tumbarello, Riordan chose a motivational strategy and action plan conducive to the self-determination theory, "which proposes that people prefer to feel they have control over their actions, so anything that makes a previously enjoyed task feel more like an obligation than a freely chosen activity will undermine motivation" (Robbins & Judge, 2011, p. 211). Because...