need help with these questions

[huss48]

Hi there, can someone help me with theses sample questions on the vcca samples questions

1. Y Box is a computer software design company with 250 staff. The work is all done on short-term contracts, with individuals working on a wide variety of team-based projects of a short duration, before then moving onto new projects with new teams. The company operates a fexitime policy, and has tried to reward individual staff for good performance. However this approach has caused problems for the company as it has resulted in confict among the staff who are divided over whether the reward system is fair.
Analyse the effectiveness of choosing to use a centralised approach to employee relations

2. Compare and contrast the Maslow and Locke theories of motivation.

3. Simon is working for a leading insurance company. He is well paid and has a good working environment, but after three years at the company he has lost motivation and is thinking about resigning and looking to work for an alternative company.
Describe how a Human Resource Manager could apply the Hertzberg theory to motivate Simon.

help is greatly needed thanks

[studying_hard]

A Centralised approach wouldn't really be "chosen" would it?

[huss48]

forgot to put the reading for it

Y Box is a computer software design company with 250 staff. The work is all done on short-term contracts, with
individuals working on a wide variety of team-based projects of a short duration, before then moving onto new
projects with new teams. The company operates a fexitime policy, and has tried to reward individual staff for
good performance. However this approach has caused problems for the company as it has resulted in confict
among the staff who are divided over whether the reward system is fair.

Analyse the effectiveness of choosing to use a centralised approach to employee relations in this company.

[luken93]

A Centralised approach wouldn't really be "chosen" would it?

+1, as Decentralised is now the law under Fair Work Act 2009

[studying_hard]

A Centralised approach wouldn't really be "chosen" would it?

+1, as Decentralised is now the law under Fair Work Act 2009

yeh I thought that it wasn't currently up to the specific org to decide but I wasn't completely sure as I havn't done that AOS for a while

[luken93]

A Centralised approach wouldn't really be "chosen" would it?

+1, as Decentralised is now the law under Fair Work Act 2009

yeh I thought that it wasn't currently up to the specific org to decide but I wasn't completely sure as I havn't done that AOS for a while

Yep definitely right, the only thing they can determine in terms of Employee Relations is that they can put forward a Collective Agreement, but that only determines wages and conditions of work, so I presume they mean that...

[Aqualim]

Hi there, can someone help me with theses sample questions on the vcca samples questions

1. Y Box is a computer software design company with 250 staff. The work is all done on short-term contracts, with individuals working on a wide variety of team-based projects of a short duration, before then moving onto new projects with new teams. The company operates a fexitime policy, and has tried to reward individual staff for good performance. However this approach has caused problems for the company as it has resulted in confict among the staff who are divided over whether the reward system is fair.
Analyse the effectiveness of choosing to use a centralised approach to employee relations

They just want you to prove whether a centralised approach may be more beneficial than a de-centralised approach. i.e. outline both and decide which would be more beneficial

[luken93]

Hi there, can someone help me with theses sample questions on the vcca samples questions

1. Y Box is a computer software design company with 250 staff. The work is all done on short-term contracts, with individuals working on a wide variety of team-based projects of a short duration, before then moving onto new projects with new teams. The company operates a fexitime policy, and has tried to reward individual staff for good performance. However this approach has caused problems for the company as it has resulted in confict among the staff who are divided over whether the reward system is fair.
Analyse the effectiveness of choosing to use a centralised approach to employee relations

They just want you to prove whether a centralised approach may be more beneficial than a de-centralised approach. i.e. outline both and decide which would be more beneficial

hmmm, I get what you mean, but still a silly question because in the real world, you have no choice...
But as far as answering it, you're spot on

[huss48]

thanks, wat about question 2 and 3?

[Kotza]

2 is rather self explanatory, just state the comparisons between the two theories whilst stating any similarities.
and in regards to Q3, as Simon is "well paid" it suggests that intrinsic rewards and motivators such as pay increases will not motivate him further, and thus only extrinsic motivators (such as ability to be promoted and joy derived out of the work itself) may prove to be a motivational force for him.

so just mould Hertzbergs theory as he states that only motivational factors prove can truly motivate employees whereas hygiene ones do not, they only keep the person in the job and can even cause dissatisfaction. So managament should offer him self-actualising tasks and the possibility for him to gain esteem through his work via more challenging tasks.

[luken93]

2 is rather self explanatory, just state the comparisons between the two theories whilst stating any similarities.
and in regards to Q3, as Simon is "well paid" it suggests that intrinsic rewards and motivators such as pay increases will not motivate him further, and thus only extrinsic motivators (such as ability to be promoted and joy derived out of the work itself) may prove to be a motivational force for him.

so just mould Hertzbergs theory as he states that only motivational factors prove can truly motivate employees whereas hygiene ones do not, they only keep the person in the job and can even cause dissatisfaction. So managament should offer him self-actualising tasks and the possibility for him to gain esteem through his work via more challenging tasks.

I think you may have mixed up intrinsic/extrinsic

[Kotza]

2 is rather self explanatory, just state the comparisons between the two theories whilst stating any similarities.
and in regards to Q3, as Simon is "well paid" it suggests that intrinsic rewards and motivators such as pay increases will not motivate him further, and thus only extrinsic motivators (such as ability to be promoted and joy derived out of the work itself) may prove to be a motivational force for him.

MAO IS NEVER WRONG!

ahhh yes i have, my apologies!

i have sabotaged the results of every VN member doing bus man now
so just mould Hertzbergs theory as he states that only motivational factors prove can truly motivate employees whereas hygiene ones do not, they only keep the person in the job and can even cause dissatisfaction. So managament should offer him self-actualising tasks and the possibility for him to gain esteem through his work via more challenging tasks.

I think you may have mixed up intrinsic/extrinsic

[Kotza]

^^ and i always quote wrong :|

[luken93]

^^ and i always quote wrong :|

hahaha