As a manager you are in a situation where a key employee seems to have lost his excitement about the job. The employee's familiar positive tone and high energy approach to the job and the workplace seem to be on the wane. You really don't know what is going on with this person. But, you can try to start to understand this employee by examining various motivation theories. Use elements from each of Maslow's theory, Herzberg's theory and Equity theory, and assemble your own motivation theory to help you to start understanding this employee. Be sure to fully explain and define all elements that you use in our new model of motivation. Finally, compose a short case to demonstrate how your model can actually be applied.

Answer:

prepare the short case, how the model related to motivation theory can be applied in the workplace, those are as stated below:

• The leadership team should care for basic needs, they should employee staffs, associates and employees for their organization and fix the problems associated with basic needs, as basic needs like issues with food, shelter, water, healthcare, etc, can impact the life of employees and staffs, hence, here, employees could improve their perform and gain consistency of their performance, if the basic needs are fulfilled, hence, leadership team should consider this situation, and it can be implemented by providing allowances and arranging food, room facilities for staffs, and employees,
• Leadership team also care for safety of each employee and staff, as the workplace can include hazards, let’s talk about manufacturing Industry, where, safety could be issue for each workers and other employees, hence, the safety practices like use of PPE’s , following safety guidelines, training related to health care and safety program, that all can prevent safety related issues within the workplace,
• Reward and motivation: employees need training over time, that training could be behavioral training, could be technical training, further, there should be achievable performance objective, with achievement of such performance objective, employees should be given reward and recognition, that recognition should be happened in the public place,
• Employees can be given changing and superior level of responsibilities, with such responsibilities, they can build their knowledge level high and they can improve their career with fulfilling the organizational goal, hence, the model should bring clear or transparent career path of each employees and staff,