Relate employee motivation, and managerial attitudes and behaviors, to employee attitudes and job satisfaction in your organization. Relate this to the motivation theories in your readings.

Many of the discussions of motivation assume that the style of leadership or the manner of the working groups have a significant effect on motivation. My view is that it is not only the managerial attitudes within the Care Trust that highlights that the managers have a significant effect on performance, but in addition to this the organizations commitment to schemes which will eventually gain the trust 'model employer' status that makes the trust attract …

…it must run faster that the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion, a gazelle, or work for the NHS, when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." Resources: 1http://www.doh.gov.uk/iwl/index.htm 2.Robbins SP: Organizational Behavior: 2003:Prentice Hall 3Brehm.JW: Cohen, AR: 1962: Explorations in Cognitive Dissonance. 4.http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_habit.html 5.Brian Booth : Chair Preston Acute Hospital NHS Trust :April 2001