Positive Influence

A Plan for Positive Influence

Sabreen Posey

LDR/531 – Organizational Leadership

January 31, 2011

Cathie Meyer

A Plan for Positive Influence

This week assignment was to complete three assessments and create a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction, and performance of a team that could be applied in a business setting. I will address how motivation, satisfaction, and performance are related to each other. Next, I will address specific differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values in the learning team and how it influences behavior. Lastly, I will address how those differences can be implemented to positively influence the team.

Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance

Motivation can be defined as the processes which account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards a goal (Robbins & Judges, 2007 pp. 186). Motivation positions an individual’s efforts directed to achieve goals and cultivate persistence. Persistence validates how long an individual will dedicate efforts to achieving a set goal. Job satisfaction can be defined as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics (Robbins & Judges, 2007 pp. 30). Job satisfaction is subjective towards the nature of work, promotions, salary, supervision, coworkers, and relationships. Performance is standards for an individual’s behavior in the workplace that help them perform effectively. When people are highly motivated it leads to job satisfaction and eventually to higher performance.

Assessments

DISC Types

Creating a DISC profile can assist organizations in developing an effective work culture. The use of this tool helps to increase insight into the deviant personalities that causes conflict between people. Team B consisted of the four main styles dominance, steadiness, interactive, and cautious. With dominance people they are task-focused, active, and outgoing. Interactive people are people-focused,...