Appraising a Managerr

Appraising a Manager’s Motivation Methods and How they Influence Performance

By

Monica Morgan

Keller University

Leadership and Organization Behavior\

Gm 591

Professor: Romuald Stone

January 29, 2012

Appraising a Manager’s Motivation Methods and How they Influence Performance

Overview of the Organization

Marine Corps Community Services facilitates the welfare of Marines and their families by providing them with goods and services. This Organization supports the Marines by delivering different programs and facilities that are required in a day to day basis by both Marines and their families. These services include shopping facilities, childcare, gas stations and many others. Marine Corps Community Services has spread throughout the globe with more than 2,250 established facilities which have a staff of about 12,000 employees. The organization headquarter is located at in Quantico, Virginia. MCCS is known for expanding its activities through construction of new facilities and hiring of more employees to support the military. However, the organization froze its recruitments for two years since June 2011, and it is also being faced by serious employee motivation problems. This has led to a highly unproductive workforce that even lacks the required attitude to carry out the organizations objectives.

Preliminary Problem Statement

Marine Corps Community Services is dedicated to serving and their families. However, the organization has been failing in delivering its core objectives lately. The management has been seen to take certain measures that only indicate failure such as freezing pay increases, freezing recruitments, laying-off of employees, putting excess pressure on employees and using threats to demand performance from employees instead of employing the required managerial policies to motivate their workers and value them as valuable assets to the organization (Higgins, 1994). In my opinion, I feel that Marine Corps Community Services has the...