Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow. How Nike Motivates Nike motivates it employees by making them feal as if their work has mote in common with Mother Teresa than henry Ford. Their guiding philosophy has the power to influence, inspire and challenge efrpicyses on a daily basis. Nike Coporation giobal strategy for human resources (HR) is to help unieash this potential across every area of their business by enabling leaders to make great decisions that, in furn. enabie N ke's business growth. Their HR function supports growth goals as partners to their leaders to ensure they evolve the organisation to support all of their brands, ensure operational and functional excellence, and plan the size and cost of their global workforce. Moreover, Nike Corporation challenged employees through group exercises and brainstorming sessions to define how the future could look and how they would get there. Furthermore, employees' insights during that exercise helped them to shape their business approach to sustainability and employees' roles in delivering on that. Nke has a lush headquarters, which is not shoving basketball stats down their throats. They also pay them well. Nied's managers are role models who inspire their teams, live the passion of Nike Corporation and promote creative environments for best thinking and work. Nike's commitment to its workforce includes enabling managers and leaders to be levers for accelerating the company's growth. They also invest in the ir leaders by providing learning and development opportunities that teach managers how to amplify their employees' talent, energy and capabilities. According to the senior management of Nike Corporation being a talent multiplier" is not about making people work harder, but about engaging them in a way that helps them produce better and more relevant work. "by the Therefore, to ensure Nike to continue io grow, Nike Corporation is investing significantly in the areas of sustainable talent practices and nfrastructure. Nike celebrates and rewards successful employee results through excellent benefits and ewards. Nike offers competitive total compensation, including benefits that provide employees the pportunity to stay fit, ensure the wellness of their families and create a positive working environment. Wike report, 2011) As a global company, every geographic location is different, but each provides for ariable health coverage, fitness centre memberships, time off, retirement savings and more. Total enefits packages depend on position, location and years with the company. The range of benefits a lable includes: - Health insurance - Life and accident insurance - Disability insurance - Retirement savings plan with a company contribution * Employee stock purchase plan (15 percent discount) - Paid vacations and holidays Question 1 (25 Marks) With reference to the extract, critically argue whether Nike is using Herzberg's Two factor Theory approach to motivate their employees. Question 2 (25 Marks) You have just joined a company that hardly offers any benefits to staff such as bonuses or medical aid. Employees are also discouraged by lack of growth and adverse working conditions. As the new HR manager, draw from Nike's example and from your knowledge of motivation and dratt a delailed motivational strategy that will motivate the staff and promote staff retention. Question 3 (25 Marks) As the owner of a small insurance company, you want to ensure that your employee's are motivated by their jobs. Using the job characteristic model, design the job for a receptionist in your company that embodies variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Question 4 (25 Marks) You have been tasked with putting together a high performance team to come up with a cutting edge design for a Nike footwear. Explain how you will select the members of this team and ensure that the team performs highly. In your response do the following: - Explain how you will select the team members - Explain the characteristics of a high periormance team "Explain how you will ensure that the team meets the requirements of a high performance team. Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow. [100 MAREKS] How Nike Motivates Nike motivates if employees by making them feel as if their work has more in common with Mother Taresis than Henry Ford. Their guiding philosophy has the power to influence, inspire and chatlenge employees on a dally basis. Nake Copporation global strategy for human tesources (H) is to help unieash this potental across every area of their business by enabling leaders to make great decisions that, in furn. enable Nike's business growth. Their HR function supports growth goals as partners to their leaders to ensure they evolve the organisation to support all of their brands, ensure operational and functional excellence, and plan the size and cost of their global workforce. Moreover, Nike Corporation challenged employees through group exercises and brainstorming sessions to define how the future could look and how they would get there. Furthermore, employees' insights during that exercise helped them to shape their business approach to sustainability and employees' roles in delivering on that. Nike has a lush headquarters, which is not shoving basketball stats down their throats. They also pay them well. Nke' 5 managers are role models who inspire their teams, live the passion of Nike Corporation and promote creative environments for best thinking and work. Nike's commitment to its workforce includes enabling managers and leaders to be levers for accelerating the company's growth. They also invest in their leaders by providing learning and development opportunities that teach managers how to amplify their employees' talent, energy and capabilities. According to the senior management of Nke Corporation being a "talent multiplier' is not about making people work harder, but about engaging them in a way that helps them produce better and more relevant work." by the Therefore, to ensure Nke to continue to grow, Nike Corporation is investing significantly in the areas of sustainable talent practices and infrastructure. Nike celebrates and rewards successful employee results through excellent benefis and rewards. Nike offers competitive total compensation, including benefits that provide employees the opportunity to stay fit, ensure the wellness of their families and create a positive working environment. (i.ke report, 2011) As a global company, every geographic location is different, but each provides for variable health coverage, fitness centre memberships, time off, retirement savings and more. Total benefits packages depend on position, location and years with the company. The range of benefits avallable includes: - Health insurance - Ll and accident insurance - Disability insurance - Retirement savings plan with a company contribution - Employee stock purchase plan (15 percent discount) - Paid vacations and holidays Question 1 (25) Marks) With refenence to the exlracl, critically argue whether Nike is using Herzbetgs Twofacter Theory aporoach lo motivate their employees. Question 2 (25 Marks) You have just joined a company that hardly offers any benefits to stalf such as bonuses or medical aid. Employees are also discouraged by lack of growth and adverse working conditions. As the nem HR manager, draw from Nike's example and from your knowledge of motivation and draft a detailed motivational strategy that will motivate the staff and promote staff retention. Question 3 (25 Marks) As the owner of a small insurance company, you want to ensure that your employee's are motiva'ed toy their jobs. Using the job characteristic model, design the job for a receptionist in your company that embodies variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Question 4 (25 Marks) You have been tasked with putting together a high performance team to come up with a cutting edge design for a Nike footwear. Explain how you will select the members of this team and ensure that the team performs highly. In your response do the following: - Explain how you will select the team members - Explain the characteristics of a high performance team - Explain how you will ensure that the team meets the requirements of a high performance team. Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow. How Nike Motivates Nike motivates it employees by making them feal as if their work has mote in common with Mother Teresa than henry Ford. Their guiding philosophy has the power to influence, inspire and challenge efrpicyses on a daily basis. Nike Coporation giobal strategy for human resources (HR) is to help unieash this potential across every area of their business by enabling leaders to make great decisions that, in furn. enabie N ke's business growth. Their HR function supports growth goals as partners to their leaders to ensure they evolve the organisation to support all of their brands, ensure operational and functional excellence, and plan the size and cost of their global workforce. Moreover, Nike Corporation challenged employees through group exercises and brainstorming sessions to define how the future could look and how they would get there. Furthermore, employees' insights during that exercise helped them to shape their business approach to sustainability and employees' roles in delivering on that. Nke has a lush headquarters, which is not shoving basketball stats down their throats. They also pay them well. Nied's managers are role models who inspire their teams, live the passion of Nike Corporation and promote creative environments for best thinking and work. Nike's commitment to its workforce includes enabling managers and leaders to be levers for accelerating the company's growth. They also invest in the ir leaders by providing learning and development opportunities that teach managers how to amplify their employees' talent, energy and capabilities. According to the senior management of Nike Corporation being a talent multiplier" is not about making people work harder, but about engaging them in a way that helps them produce better and more relevant work. "by the Therefore, to ensure Nike to continue io grow, Nike Corporation is investing significantly in the areas of sustainable talent practices and nfrastructure. Nike celebrates and rewards successful employee results through excellent benefits and ewards. Nike offers competitive total compensation, including benefits that provide employees the pportunity to stay fit, ensure the wellness of their families and create a positive working environment. Wike report, 2011) As a global company, every geographic location is different, but each provides for ariable health coverage, fitness centre memberships, time off, retirement savings and more. Total enefits packages depend on position, location and years with the company. The range of benefits a lable includes: - Health insurance - Life and accident insurance - Disability insurance - Retirement savings plan with a company contribution * Employee stock purchase plan (15 percent discount) - Paid vacations and holidays Question 1 (25 Marks) With reference to the extract, critically argue whether Nike is using Herzberg's Two factor Theory approach to motivate their employees. Question 2 (25 Marks) You have just joined a company that hardly offers any benefits to staff such as bonuses or medical aid. Employees are also discouraged by lack of growth and adverse working conditions. As the new HR manager, draw from Nike's example and from your knowledge of motivation and dratt a delailed motivational strategy that will motivate the staff and promote staff retention. Question 3 (25 Marks) As the owner of a small insurance company, you want to ensure that your employee's are motivated by their jobs. Using the job characteristic model, design the job for a receptionist in your company that embodies variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Question 4 (25 Marks) You have been tasked with putting together a high performance team to come up with a cutting edge design for a Nike footwear. Explain how you will select the members of this team and ensure that the team performs highly. In your response do the following: - Explain how you will select the team members - Explain the characteristics of a high periormance team "Explain how you will ensure that the team meets the requirements of a high performance team. Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow. [100 MAREKS] How Nike Motivates Nike motivates if employees by making them feel as if their work has more in common with Mother Taresis than Henry Ford. Their guiding philosophy has the power to influence, inspire and chatlenge employees on a dally basis. Nake Copporation global strategy for human tesources (H) is to help unieash this potental across every area of their business by enabling leaders to make great decisions that, in furn. enable Nike's business growth. Their HR function supports growth goals as partners to their leaders to ensure they evolve the organisation to support all of their brands, ensure operational and functional excellence, and plan the size and cost of their global workforce. Moreover, Nike Corporation challenged employees through group exercises and brainstorming sessions to define how the future could look and how they would get there. Furthermore, employees' insights during that exercise helped them to shape their business approach to sustainability and employees' roles in delivering on that. Nike has a lush headquarters, which is not shoving basketball stats down their throats. They also pay them well. Nke' 5 managers are role models who inspire their teams, live the passion of Nike Corporation and promote creative environments for best thinking and work. Nike's commitment to its workforce includes enabling managers and leaders to be levers for accelerating the company's growth. They also invest in their leaders by providing learning and development opportunities that teach managers how to amplify their employees' talent, energy and capabilities. According to the senior management of Nke Corporation being a "talent multiplier' is not about making people work harder, but about engaging them in a way that helps them produce better and more relevant work." by the Therefore, to ensure Nke to continue to grow, Nike Corporation is investing significantly in the areas of sustainable talent practices and infrastructure. Nike celebrates and rewards successful employee results through excellent benefis and rewards. Nike offers competitive total compensation, including benefits that provide employees the opportunity to stay fit, ensure the wellness of their families and create a positive working environment. (i.ke report, 2011) As a global company, every geographic location is different, but each provides for variable health coverage, fitness centre memberships, time off, retirement savings and more. Total benefits packages depend on position, location and years with the company. The range of benefits avallable includes: - Health insurance - Ll and accident insurance - Disability insurance - Retirement savings plan with a company contribution - Employee stock purchase plan (15 percent discount) - Paid vacations and holidays Question 1 (25) Marks) With refenence to the exlracl, critically argue whether Nike is using Herzbetgs Twofacter Theory aporoach lo motivate their employees. Question 2 (25 Marks) You have just joined a company that hardly offers any benefits to stalf such as bonuses or medical aid. Employees are also discouraged by lack of growth and adverse working conditions. As the nem HR manager, draw from Nike's example and from your knowledge of motivation and draft a detailed motivational strategy that will motivate the staff and promote staff retention. Question 3 (25 Marks) As the owner of a small insurance company, you want to ensure that your employee's are motiva'ed toy their jobs. Using the job characteristic model, design the job for a receptionist in your company that embodies variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Question 4 (25 Marks) You have been tasked with putting together a high performance team to come up with a cutting edge design for a Nike footwear. Explain how you will select the members of this team and ensure that the team performs highly. In your response do the following: - Explain how you will select the team members - Explain the characteristics of a high performance team - Explain how you will ensure that the team meets the requirements of a high performance team