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Week 7: "Managing motivation" This week's topic is closely connected to week 6. The team discussed in week 6, was introduced to improve the efficiency that Taylor not in the long run achieved. The chapter from the book in this week's topic, explain how motivation theories have evolved during the history and until today. The most dominant perspective in motivation focuses on job redesign. Job redesign was introduced to try to increase the performance outcomes that Scientific Management and Taylor not managed to do. The theories tried to overcome the problems caused by deskilling and improved job satisfaction which caused the productivity to increase. The earliest motivation theories based on job redesign focused on a homegenous view of the employees' needs, actually the male's needs, and the theorists from this time believed wages were the basic motivating principle. This chapter, like the reading in the book from last week, explain how...

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