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ON DIRECTING

No matter how the plans carefully planned, no matter how organized it is and how suitable the people for the work and the positions are, without direction from the immediate person, how can they act? Everyone is different individual with their own perceptions and evaluations of the plan. Possessed with initiatives and abilities--- they can be autonomous but, this being autonomous of a man somehow not applicable when things and situations require a solid effort of unity and cooperation. Ergo, these bunch of people still needs someone to direct them towards to what goals they must accomplish, together. Directing is said to be the heart of the management process, a "life-spark of an enterprise", a central character, the essence of all the planning, organizing, and staffing matter. It is the function of influencing (the employees through respect and integrity), motivating (them through inspirations, appreciation, and ideal challenge), instructing (them in a clear, easy, and consi...

ON MOTIVATION

"Who wouldn't recognize Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs theory that human beings possess physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization that needs to be satisfied. Or the ERG (Existence, Relatedness, and Growth) theory of Clayton Alderfer. These are the content theories that focus on analyzing the wants and needs of an individual. Including the Acquired Needs Theory of David McClelland: (the need for achievement, affiliation, and power). Frederick Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory that identifies job context as a source of job dissatisfaction and job content as a source of job satisfaction. Expectancy Theory of Victor Vroom (the value, expectancy, and instrumentality). The Equity Theory of J. Stacey Adams and the Goal Setting Theory of Edwin A. Locke." Those are the theories of motivation that explains why people are behaving such a way. Theories that motivates us to continue struggling. The term motivation is derived from the English word--- Motive...