bel 492...final speech draft

FINAL SPEECH DRAFT

Assalammualaikum w.b.t

Good morning to Assoc. Prof Haji Sa’aban Bin Haji Salim our BEL 492 Lecturer, class representative Miss Norlizawati Binti Sulaiman, the responsible time keeper Mohd Khairil Bin Abd Razak and not to forget to all of you, ladies and gentlemen. What do you know about motivation? Today, I would like to present on topic “Ways to Motivate Employees in Malaysian Factory”. Why I choose this topic? In my perceptions, motivation influences the work performance of individuals.

Before I proceed with the contents of my presentation, let me introduce myself. I am Suhaini Binti Md. Rashad, was born on September 7, 1987. Since the day I was born until now Petaling Jaya is a part of my life. Recently, I completed my Diploma in banking from UiTM, Alor Gajah Melaka.

Now, it comes to the backbone of my presentation. As I mentioned earlier, motivation influence the work performance of an individual. I will proceed with the contents of this topic. The general purpose is to inform while the specific purpose is to inform my audience the ways to motivate employees. The central idea is to identify the motivational factors in helping the employees. There are three main points under the topic which the definition of motivate, causes that motivate employees in Malaysian factory and the third main points is motivate effort to help the employees.

Let’s move to the definition of motivate.

I had found the definition of motivate from the Wikipedia. According to Keith A. Shaw, the Official Guide to Motivation from Wikipedia defines motivation as “a reason or a set of reasons for engaging in a particular behavior, especially in human behavior as studied in psychology and neuropsychology. While according to Geen (1995), motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of human behavior. A part from that, motivation appears in the other terms: achievement motivation theory, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and two factor theory of motivation.

Next is about the causes that motivate employees in Malaysian factory. As you can see, there are four motivate causes. The first causes are attractive rewards systems. There are two types of reward which is extrinsic reward and intrinsic reward. Extrinsic rewards are external to or outside of an individual for examples praise and money. Intrinsic rewards is internal to or within of an individual for examples job satisfaction and accomplishment. Reward systems tend to make employees more motivate. Promoted is the second causes of motivate employees. For those employees get the opportunities to promoted, they will gain respect and be appreciated by others. One of the criteria for job promotion is by having an impressive achievement track record. For people that like others respect them, they will work hard to get promoted. The third causes are increase in salary. Employees who get the opportunities for promotion will have an increasing in salary. By that, they will have a better standard of living and some portion of the increment in salary for saving that can be used during an emergency. For employees that have big family to support, it will benefit them work harder in order to changed their standard of living. Now, it comes to the last causes that are bonus. Bonus for Malaysian factory depends on the company’s profit. Normally, factory employees in Malaysia get bonus. It depends on the profit margin of the company itself. In order to make sure that they will receive bonus per annum, they will work harder by increasing the sales of their products.

Next, I proceed with the third main points which the motivate efforts that conducted by the management’s team in helping the employees. There are eight efforts conducted by the company. The first is high wages and good working condition. One of the efforts to motivate the employees that done by the management teams is by offering high overtime pay rate and provides air-conditioning at working areas. Employees want to work in an environment that is productive, conducive, and respectful and provides a sense of belonging. Job security. The company will guarantee job security for those workers that have good work performance and achievement track record. To make sure that, good performer will be needed by the company. Therefore, they will stay longer in the company rather than employees that have bad work performance record. The third effort is interesting work. Employees in Malaysian factory get the opportunities working with different department and line production. It will create an interesting working environment to the employees. This will motivate the employees to work harder to have the chance being chosen working in the different line production.

Now, the fourth causes of motivate employees is full appreciation of work done. The management can give their appreciation to the employees through reward andrecognition. For example the management team giving recognition during Annual Dinner organized by the company. It will motivate the employees to do some achievement in order to get the recognition. Next effort is by providing opportunities to grow through learning new Things. The employees get to gain more knowledge and new experience through seminar and courses conducted by the company. They will have the time to explore new things in the industry that can be applied in the working environment. This will make the employees more competitive since they gained experienced and knowledge through seminar and courses. Job responsibility is also one of the motivate effort. In the context of job responsibility, the senior workers get the opportunities to supervise the lower level worker. This makes the senior worker an important person in the company as they have the authority in supervising the lower level worker. The second last effort is sensible company rules, regulations, procedures and policies. The management team should set rules that can be followed by the employees. Flexible rules and regulations set by the company can be followed by them. Rational policies and procedures applicable and can be conducted to all employees. The last effort conducted by the management’s team is management’s help to solve personal problems. The final motivate effort is management help to solve personal problems. In the case of emergency, management teams helped to solve the personal problems of the employees. For example during natural disaster, management helps by conducting donation for disaster victim.

As a conclusion, there are causes of motivate employees and motivate effort in helping the Malaysian factory employees. Motivation influences the work performance of individuals. It is important to identify the motivational factors in helping the employees.Motivate efforts in helping the employees such as high wages, job security and interesting work influence the performance of Malaysian factory employees