Compare and contrast different motivational theories

The purpose of this assignment is to help you to compare and contrast different motivational theories and apply them collectively during goal setting and performance evaluations.

In a meeting with members of Ledbetter Organic Foods operations area, you ask middle managers about the recent sub-par performance in the department and their thoughts about the reasons behind it. They state that their performance goals are set too high, with the vast majority of their employees missing their individual targets across the board.

In your education and training to be an organizational behavior consultant, you studied various needs-based motivational theories:

Maslow’s hierarchy and the five categories of basic human needs
The ERG theory which compressed Maslow’ five categories to three;
The Two-Factor theory, which describes factors that either motivate people or make them dissatisfied
The Acquired-Needs model, which describes stable and dominant characteristics in human beings that drive behavior
Other theories as mentioned in your textbook (chapter 5 &6)
Which of the motivational theory/theories do you think is best for describing human behavior in the workplace? Based on that, how would you construct a work environment using reward strategies, work-life balance considerations, and other approaches?

Assignment guidelines: Minimum requirement of 2-3 pages not counting the title page, and reference page. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and 3 peer-reviewed references in APA format.

PUMA SWOT VRIO Analysis

Company – “PUMA”

Requirements

• Between 700-800 words (works cited page is not included in total required word count)
• Double-spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• 1-inch margins
• Proper APA in-paper citations and works cited page required. You do not need to follow APA guidelines for a title page or abstract.  You MUST use APA for the body of your paper and works cited page.
• Use at least 4 sources. You may use the company’s website and filings as a source. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.

For this  Paper, you need to analyze the “PUMA” company organizational culture and approach to strategic management.

• Strategic Management
  • What is the company’s corporate-level strategy?
    • Identify the company’s corporate strategy and provide supporting evidence.
  • Complete a SWOT analysis for your company.
  • Complete a VRIO analysis. Provide specific examples for each component to justify your analysis.
  • Leveraging Porter’s five competitive forces, using three of the five competitive forces, provide examples of how the competitive forces affect the “PUMA”
• Organizational Culture
  • Describe the culture of the “PUMA” company. Identify values, norms, rituals, slogans, etc.
  • What is the company’s culture as described by the competing values framework? Justify your analysis with specific examples.
  • Using the basic types of organizational structures, identify the “PUMA” company’s organizational structure and explain the benefits and drawbacks of the structure.

Whitbread Group PLC Case Study

Part 1
Read the information provided on the company in ‘Materials’, ‘Part 1’.
Evaluate the way in which principal events in the company’s history might have influenced its vision, mission,
values, goals and shaped the company’s strategy.
Your answer to this part should be no more than 900 words. (35 marks)
Part 2
Review the balance sheet and accounts data provided in the ‘Materials’, ‘Part 2’. Analyse the financial performance
of the company and its ability to create and capture value.
Your answer to this part should be no more than 400 words. (20 marks)
Part 3
Read the documents and materials provided in ‘Materials’, ‘Part 3’.
Evaluate the company’s corporate social responsibility strategy and how it relates to its stakeholders.
Your answer to this part should be no more than 900 words. (30 marks)
Part 4
Reflect on your work in the 4 weeks and explain how it has enhanced your skills.
Your answer to this part should be no more than 300 words. (15 marks)

Organizational Case Analysis Sustainable HRM and the Principles of Strategic HRM

You will write a case report based on your organisation (or any organisation you are familiar with) to critically evaluate its strategic HRM by examining its policies, practices and procedures against any three characteristics of sustainable HRM.

Referencing is Australian Harvard (AGPS)

Read the following case study:

Kramar, R 2022, ‘Sustainable human resource management: Six defining characteristics’, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 146-170, DOI:10.1111/1744-7941.12321.

According to Kramar (2022), Sustainable HRM is built on the principles of Strategic HRM and focuses on broad organizational goals in a number of areas, and not just “business” goals. Central to this approach, however, is the link between HRM and sustainability. Based on your reading of this article and your understanding of the HRM theories, concepts and principles that you have learned in this subject, your task is to:

Critically evaluate your organization’s approach (or any organization you are familiar with) to strategic HRM by examining its policies, practices and procedures against any three characteristics of sustainable HRM as, identified by Kramar (2022). You can choose to focus on those characteristics that you believe to be the most important and/or relevant for your organization.

These are:

Contradictory outcomes
Concern with capability development
The need to recognize potential and actual negative and positive outcomes
Attention to the development and implementation of HRM activities
The explicit statement of values informing sustainable HRM
The design of metrics to promote sustainability
In your recommendation, you must provide tangible actions that your chosen organization can adopt in achieving its sustainable HRM outcomes. You must also explain how your recommendations will help the organization achieve its strategic goals and objectives.

Please ensure you begin your assignment by providing an introduction of the organisation

Comparative Brand Plan

Brand Identities

A company’s brand identity is what the brand stands for.  It is how that organization wants to be perceived by consumers. The components of the brand (name, logo, tone, tagline, typeface) are created by the business to reflect the value the company is trying to bring to the market and to appeal to its customers.  Brand recognition identifies the brand.  A successful brand should have a clear identity.  Brand identity answers the question “who are you?”  A brand reduces functional risk, it must have a strong enough identity that suggest it is capable of solving a specific problem.

Example (remember your examples will be longer)

“She’s also many things to many people. She’s an icon of traditional feminine roles, a nostalgic throwback to “simpler times” and a front for one of the world’s biggest food companies. And she represents wholesome Midwestern values in a fun, friendly way, “Seattle Times.

Brand Images

A company’s brand image is the impression of a product held by real or potential consumers. Brand is able to reduce psychological risk, consumers must have an image of the brand that suggests the brand is more – or at least as – acceptable than other brands.

Example (use images and comparison between the two organizations)

“General Mills is proud to market some of the world’s most-trusted food brands, including Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Nature Valley, Annie’s, Yoplait, Larabar, Old El Paso, Progresso, Muir Glen, Hamburger Helper, Toaster Strudel, Gold Medal, Bisquick, Totino’s, Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Fiber One, and Chex, as well as Blue Buffalo pet products, “ www.bettycrocker.com.  “Betty Crocker has been a cultural icon and part of families’ food traditions—not to mention a trusted source for recipes and homemaking know-how—for more than 90 years. “ by Betty Crocker Kitchens, Created January 10, 2017.

https://www.pbs.org/food/the-history-kitchen/who-was-betty-crocker/

www.bettycrocker.com

Brand Personalities

A company’s brand personality is a set of human characteristics that are attributed to a brand name. A brand personality is something to which the consumer can relate; uses it to express their own personality; and an effective brand increases its brand equity by having a consistent set of traits that a specific consumer segment enjoys. Brand is able to enhance self-expression, the brand has to be sufficiently established to have its own personality.  The brand personality is influenced by the traits of the typical user.

Example

“Relatability and authenticity: When consumers can relate to a brand, they are more likely to bring it up in conversation because of that connection. They also tend to trust it more, Keller said. The Betty Crocker brand capitalizes on its humanization to relate to its consumers. “We’ve seen in particular by the brands that stand out at the top that authenticity is really important to the consumer today. You can build on your heritage extremely well. Betty Crocker was a name that was created — there was no actual Betty Crocker; they just created a name that they wanted people to relate to the brand. It gave a face to the brand. In the 30s and 40s, Betty Crocker would get tens of thousands of letters each week asking questions about baking and recipes. In the 1940s, Eleanor Roosevelt was the most admired woman in America and Betty Crocker was No. 2. They really humanized the brand. I think that’s a message that carries forward here. How do you humanize the brand so people can relate to it — particularly in food where it can be either sort of healthy eating or indulgences. It’s what going inside of you, and you want to make sure that you have a lot of trust in that brand.  Don’t’ feel like it’s only techy brands that get people talking or that it’s only something that’s new. We can create talkable stories out of brands that have been around for decades and in many of these cases a century by tapping into things that are new and current to consumers,” How are brands catching consumer interest?, 10.20.2017, by Rebekah Schouten