Motivating employees can be a very difficult task for a manager with no budget. Read the attachment: No Cost Rewards.pdf

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on No Cost Ways to Motivate Employees by Dan Tynan and respond to the following:

1) Which motivator do you feel is the best and why (1 paragraph)

2) Which motivator do you feel is useless or would just be a distraction and why (1 paragraph)

3) Which motivator do you think is nice gesture but really won't motivate anybody and explain why (1 paragraph)

4) Supply (or research) your own idea of a no cost motivator and how you would implement it. Think of a good one. (1 paragraph)

Consider also the importance of empathy and understanding when connecting with and motivating employees. Listen to the short audio teaching entitled Management Audio 1 for additional help with this discussion question