Executive Summary: Hatfield is a retail company based Hatfield with 125 employees. It has recently experienced considerable success and is looking to excel in the following areas; employee motivation, team working, organisational processes and equality and diversity. This report has addressed this brief by assessing the latest industry research and benchmarking leading UK companies who have proven track records in each of the selected areas. a) Motivating employees. This report makes links between motivated employees and increased and sustained output and examine the ‘4 drive model’. IT has benchmarked with Sainsbury’s and Tesco, and recommend that the model be adopted by Hatfield PLC. b) Groups and Teams in the organisation A number of theories have been investigated around group and team development, and it is recommended that the best fit for this is the progressive model theory which goes through 5 steps. c) …show more content…
Is a retail company based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. While still a small to medium sized business with 125 employees, they have had considerable success over the past few years and are looking to build on this success. They have recognised that one of their major assets is their employees and they want to get the best out of them. This report looks at four specific areas using research of some of the leading UK companies to formulate recommendations. 1) Motivating Employees One of the key areas in a company is the motivation of employees. Motivation is defined as “the force that drives individuals to take action.”(Smith et al, 2012, page 60) The level of motivation will affect the amount and quality of output by the employees, if they are highly motivated then they will be willing to put more time and effort into their work and therefore most likely see better results. However, if they are very unmotivated the opposite will occur, they will invest less time and effort and the overall results will