CourseBOP702

Week8 of 16

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This week’s topics

Midterm evaluation

Midterm assessment of the criteria taught so far
Individual feedback and targets

What you will be able to do

1.1 Discuss major aspects of the motivation process in an organisation.
1.2 Assess the differences between content and process theories of employee motivation in an organisation.
2.1 Critically evaluate the different approaches to job design in an organisation.
2.2 Assess how job design is used to motivate employees in an organisation.

Activity

Midterm assessment task and individual feedback.

Study materials

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Course plan

Week 1: Foundations of Organisational Motivation
Week 2: Socio-Cultural Contexts of Workplace Motivation
Week 3: Content Theories of Employee Motivation
Week 4: Process Theories and Comparative Analysis
Week 5: Evolution and Models of Job Design
Week 6: Contemporary Job Design and Technological Impacts
Week 7: Mobilising Job Design for Employee Motivation
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reward Paradigms
Week 10: Mechanisms of Reward Determination
Week 11: Performance-Related Pay and Strategic Reward Governance
Week 12: Applying Motivation, Job design, and Extrinsic Rewards in p…
Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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