Grow your management skills by exploring the connections between motivation, job satisfaction, well-being and performance. Explore connections between job satisfaction, performance and more. What are the connections between attitudes, motivation, job satisfaction, well-being, stress and performance at work? Find out with this course.

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You will explore humanist ideas of management that emphasise the importance of motivations. You will also consider the effects of stress: developing an understanding of stress models, reflecting on what contributes to stress in the workplace and evaluating the value of stress management interventions. You should finish the course feeling able to apply your learning to your own management practice.

What topics will you cover?

Week 1

- An introduction to the course

- The psychological contract and how these are managed

- Job satisfaction

- Causes and impacts of stress

Week 2

- Stress management within organisations

- Introduction to motivation

- Defining motivation

Week 3

- Content theories of motivation

- Process theories of motivation

- Encouraging motivation in the workplace

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Examine the link between motivation, job satisfaction and performance

- Explain the features of key theories of motivation and assess how these theories might increase motivation in different situations in the workplace

- Define personal practices that will help you to create a more motivating work environment including identifying what motivates you

- Understand the nature of stress and be able to scrutinise stress management interventions

- Apply this understanding to management practice