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Plan For Positive Influence

Plan for Positive Influence
Wendee Aardema, Jamie Snead, Annemarie Browning, Keitrick Clark, Adrienne Threatt
University of Phoenix

Introduction
In every workplace environment, there will be a diversified collection of people that represent all different walks of life. There will be people from different cultural backgrounds, along with people who hold different political perspectives and different religious views. With all of these differences, employees bring their individualized attitudes, emotions, personalities, and core values. Because these elements all shape employees’ behaviors in the workplace, it is essential that both organizations and employees make themselves fully aware of these differences and the impact that it has in the workplace. When managers gain such an understanding, they are enabled to create a workplace environment that lends itself to motivation, satisfaction, and ultimately improved performance (Robbins & Judge, 2007).
Organizations need managers that can take the diversity that is present, the good and the bad, and make it work to their advantage by providing positive influence to obtain desired results. This essay will give solutions to those leading individuals by offering a plan for positive influence. It will incorporate ways to increase motivation, satisfaction, and performance in the workplace. It will also address the differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values, as well as how these components influence behavior.

Increasing Motivation, Satisfaction, and Performance
Employees have different needs and different desires which create different motivational problems for all employees. A manager must resort to different means of motivating employees based on diversity, culture and goals. Motivation is defined as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal (Robbins & Judge, 2007). I am personally motivated by advancement...