高级商务英语听说（第二版）Unit 8 Motivating Employees.pptVIP

Motivating Employees 员工激励 * University of International Business and Economics * Unit 8 ?Learning objectives Students will learn motivational process and understand reward as a motivator. Students will be able to argue for or against money as number one motivator and discuss motivational techniques and the difficulties to put them into practice. 1. What is motivation? Motivation is a predisposition to act in a specific goal-directed manner. It is the willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual needs. Comprehension Questions: What are the three key elements in the definition of motivation? The three key elements are effort, organizational goals, and needs. Motivation is a need-satisfying process. When a need is intensified to a certain sufficient level, it will generate goal-directed behavior, which will lead to tension reduction and need satisfaction. Can you explain the motivational process? What are its business implications? Needs offer business opportunities. Marketers should find out customers’ needs or generate customers’ needs, intensify their needs and then design, manufacture and supply the market with needs-satisfying goods or services. Part A First listening: listen for the gist What is the main idea of the news? Four years after the Sept.11 terror attacks, the U.S. continues to heal. The healing process includes the activities such as funerals, memorials, remembrance ceremonies, and various approaches to getting over the loss of loved ones. Second listening: listen for specific information Notice how these expressions are related to the healing activities of a disaster. An ever-present global threat, funerals for victims, the search-and-rescue mission, recovery effort, the healing process, to confront a subject of …., to refine one’s approach Third listening: sentences imitation You are asked to use the following active vocabularies