**Please answer all sub-questions, thank you!**

QUESTION TWO: Critically analyze the four proposed ways to motivate employees below. Your analysis must utilize the relevant motivational theories and provide current examples.

2.1) Critically analyze(by discussing the pros and cons) about the four proposed ways to motivate employees below

2.2) Link your answers in 2.1 to motivational theories and give examples to justify your answers

Four proposed ways to motivate employees:

1. Understand the needs of employees There is a department in our company with zero employee-turnover. The secret of success is hiring right people for the right job passionate and motivated about their work. In addition, we need to care what people need, and understand their motivation. Different people have different needs. Some enjoy the freedom or prefer to build a career, while others need to know how valued they are. In my experience, different generations have different values. For example, Gen X needs stability, clear goals, the ability to plan their work. For Gen Z, it is vital to be under flexible rules. Understanding the motivation of each person is the main objective of the manager. While working closely with a team, its easy to notice when someone loses enthusiasm. For example, in my team, there is a person whos the most enthusiastic about everything related to automation: testing, writing instructions, and correcting errors. Therefore, when choosing whom to assign the new HRIS testing, I pick this person because I know she will enjoy it.

2. Make employees life more comfortable Another non-monetary motivator is to make employees happier by alleviating their home routine duties, giving access to engaging webinars, online courses, podcasts on healthy eating, meditation applications, back exercises, and much more. At the end of quarantine, we had a transition phase when employees could go to the office voluntarily. Public transport wasnt available yet, so it was tricky for people to commute. Therefore, we launched Route Sharing an internal platform where people discuss the ability to drive somebody to work. It cost us almost nothing, but the employees felt that the company was caring about them. Also, we help our colleagues to minimize their time wasted on daily routines. We can find a costeffective dry cleaning service, proper insurance for a car, or even a car. These and many other requests are the tasks of our Care department. As a result, people save time and can work more productively.

3. Give your team more freedom Some people are more motivated when they can work remotely, get extra day-offs, or rest for several days. Quarantine has shown that remote work at Innovecs is productive. Why not let your employees work from home, even when quarantine is over? You can also allow workers to start their working day at a suitable time and give them additional day-off on birthdays, weddings, or childbirths. For example, Salesforce (CRM software development) offers employees six paid day-offs per year in addition to regular paid vacation. Patagonia (outdoor clothing and gear) allows employees to go surf anytime. BitSol Systems (business software development) offers pawternity leaves. When an employee gets a cat or dog, they can take a week of paid leave to help them accommodate to a new place. If the company has several offices, you can allow the employee to choose an office and workplace or move between offices and work each day in a new location. A change of scenery motivates and sparks creativity.

4. Be honest with your team If a person gets a pay cut due to the crisis, it is difficult to motivate them. An essential thing in the company is honesty and openness. Tell the team why you made such a decision, what happens to the business, what possible scenarios are, and when all is back to normal. My practice shows, if there is open communication, 100% of the employees are understanding of any tough situation and stay at the company despite difficulties. There are cases when team members saved the job of their colleague who was at risk of ramp down. They refused part of their bonuses and this is a truly fantastic thing.