Topic 6 – Motivation

Is anyone doing this topic?? I’m thinking if doing this and would like to discuss ideas.

Hello,

Go through the company website, search for third party information that relates to the industry…thats pretty much it.

The two sources you mentioned are primary sources. You need some secondary sources to back up your project.

All the best!

Hi, I am doing the same topic it is my first attempt and i am doing it alone. have you started?

Footnote to my post above:

Here is where you will find the official OBU advice for Topic 6:

See the Information Pack 2013/14 pp33-34 where Phil Clarke of OBU explains the requirements if you use a questionnaire and also the current Resubmission Guide pp 8 -9 where Al Neilson OBU/ACCA marker and moderator addresses how Topic 6 is assessed. You need to use these to guide your work so that your RAP meets the criteria that they have highlighted and outlined.

My tip for Topic 6 if doing a questionnaire (and that is the normal way most students approach this topic) is to spend some time looking at how to produce really good questions that are clear, relate to the actual motivation theories, are unambiguous (re-read the questions and ask – could someone misunderstand this and interpret it differently?) and then decide how you are going to choose the respondents. Mention these steps in the section where you do your methodology.

Don’t forget to include (1) a copy of your questionnaire and a summary of your results in the appendices (2) graphs and charts to illustrate your findings in the evaluation section (Part 3) and (3) tie these findings back to the relevant motivation theory.

Good luck and if you have a specific query then please raise it here. 😀

please i need someone to put me through this project, i dont even know how to start the work, wish to choose topic 6, i will be grateful thx.

@yusha abidi. If you intend to use an employee questionnaire to show how motivational theories apply in your organisation you will need to have relevant questions that are worded unambiguously and any technical terms are avoided.

I suggest that you read Phil Clarke’s section in the Information Pack thoroughly and ensure you understand the underlying principles behind primary research. Then look at aspects of motivation and really think how you can ask clear questions that people can answer that avoid any specialist phrases e.g. if you ask people if the are motivated by self- actualization I would think the average person’s response would be ‘what on earth is self- actualization’? !!!! (Unless they have heard of Maslow)

So you would need to discuss how you designed the questions and chose your sample in Part 2 of the RAP

The section word counts are merely a guide (see the FAQs on our home page) – just don’t exceed the 7,500 total 🙂

@prudy

First I’ll answer point (2) – yes in fact you are expected to consider more than one theory as the different theories have different takes on some of the aspects so no one theory on its own is appropriate for this topic

The most important thing is that before you even do any analysis you should have read the section in the Information Pack about collecting Primary data (p36-38 I think it is). Clear questions are necessary – you have to include a copy of your questionnaire and the markers will pick it to pieces if your question are ambiguous, vague and badly worded on the basis that, if the questions are not clear how can the answers be relied on? So you need to research and think what would demonstrate the various aspects of the various theories and compose your questions accordingly. I suggest that you ask a few people to read through them initially to ensure that the meaning is clear (avoid specialist terms like ‘self-actualisation’ as if people do not understand the terms used in the questions they cannot answer accurately) before you actually do the full survey.

You need to tabulate your results and include these in the appendices – again if you do not supply the raw data and/or your workings are not clear you will be penalised (fail for Application)

The data collection (doing good appropriate questions and tabulating it) is the hard bit as if you get this wrong your evaluation and conclusions will not be valid. Actually doing the evaluation with sound data is not a big problem as you look at what the answers showed you and relate the main results back to the theory. However if your questionnaire is poor the answers will be unreliable and any conclusions drawn from invalid

@yusha abidi
By models for T 6 they mean theories
Look at Maslow, Herzberg, Vroom, Adams, McClelland, Alderfer or any other theories (limit yourself to about 4 in view of the word count). Think about the various factors that are supposed to motivate and use them as the basis for formulating questions. Choose simple words and compose questions that are not ambiguous – normally ones that require an answer that can fall in the category of ‘strongly agree/agree/do not agree/ strongly disagree’ e.g ‘Routine work does not interest me.’ – if I strongly agree with this it shows that the work content is important to me and implies that I am demotivated by boring jobs. You can then use this Likert scale responses to analyse the data and see if there are trends.

Feedback

Hi,

I must say the your questions are to general therefore you need to ask specific question s.Your questions should be clear in their context.They should also be based on motivational theories othewise you are likely to have problems in information gathering, evaluation and Analysis of information. You can not categorized a factor like Social needs. If you look at Esteem needs you have 1 self esteem.2 confidence .3 Achievements 4,Respect for others. How will you assess whether how many respondants are talking about self esteem or confidence or better Achievement. You questions have to be precise and straight to the Point. Do not generalise.
Setting up a questionnaire differs from one person to another .Look at Page 27- 33 of the information pack. The way you set up a question will help in the understanding of the importance of the overall research approach and the framework you are going to adopt. if you are doing ACCA You can adopt the ACCA style question from their surveys. Other types are Open ended, close ended,mixed questionnaire and Pictorial questionnaire BROWSE THE INTERNET.

Examples 1
You can set a questionnaire as follows,
1. On a Scale from 1 to 5,how strongly do you agree with the following statements with motivation at Small Company?
1
2
3
4
5

Examples 2
2 How satisfied are you with the level of Training and Development at Small Company?
5.Very satisfied 4.satisfied.3 Nuetral 2. Unsatisfied.1 very unsatisfied

Examples 3
3.Is interesting work a factor of employees motivation at SMALL CO which will influenc e performance?
3 YES 2.NEUTRAL .1 NO

The above questions are very simple but straight to the Point. TheN you can DEVISE a methodology under the framewok adopted on how you will analyse the responses.
I hope this information will be useful

Rgds

Am free to offer free advise on Topic 6 in case you have issues in understanding the moderators feedback up to end of October 2014.