on Friday night and Joseph Shepherd has just parked in his driveway. Late again for fifth time this week, and of course making it a clean sweep for the entire month. As he takes a minute to collect his thoughts he leans back into the headrest of his 1997 Toyota Camry. "Hmmm." He sighed and thought to himself this will be another week of having to pay Miss Ruby, his helper, overtime.
The original arrangement with Miss Ruby is for her to come in at 6 AM assist him in preparing the children (Rachel 9, Simone 6, and Simon 3) for school. Staying on after they have gone to school and performing household tasks and be there in the afternoon when they get home. This would facilitate her helping them with their homework and having dinner and snacks ready for them to consume until he gets home from work at or about 6pm.
Initially this arrangement worked like a charm and Miss Ruby, having deep affections for the children agreed to it for an amazing $4000.00 per week, Monday to Friday. An upper middle-income earner Joseph was able to facilitate in his budget the $16000.00 with ease. However Miss Ruby had a family of her own and when she had to stay until 9 PM almost every evening it had to be worth her while. .
Therefore they negotiated an overtime rate of $500.00 per hour. The arbitrary hour here and there was irrelevant at first. But now six months since his wife Catherine had died, he paid a whopping $9000.00 per week in overtime payments alone plus her base pay of $4000. He knew it was draining him financially but what was he to do. Both he and Catherine were only children with deceased grandparents on either side.
When he started at Jumpp Investments he was an accounting clerk and was soon promoted to a Junior Accountant. Before Catherine passed he was up for another promotion to Senior Account, which he has now received. The new job involves the supervision of three Junior Accountants and of course the management of his own portfolios.
Applying the Learning Organisational objectives are not achieved by people simply turning up to work. Managers must challenge, inspire and maintain employee behaviour to achieve goals. This can be achieved through a balance of the use of rewards, punishment and authority. This process is known as motivation. There are two major types of motivational theory: content and process theories. ...
