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Motivation

Quotes

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
-Alexander the Great (www.brainyquote.com)

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower (http://wisdom.revjone.com)

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle (www.quotationspage.com)

Introduction
Since the industrial revolution in the 1800’s, management has tried to find ways to get the best out of their employees. At first, employees were little better than slaves or indentured servants with no organization, minimum pay, brutal hours and horrible work and safety conditions. Management took the approach if they gave an employee an inch, the employee would take a mile. Unions were outlawed by businesses and if discovered, were brutally put down with physical force by thugs hired by management. The idea was that the workers should be treated and reprimanded like children, which in fact much of the workforce was children. The motivation by the employee to work came from the necessity to survive, because most industrial settings had the same conditions, so an employee could not leave for a better or higher paying job.
The idea for motivation did not really come about until after World War II, when unions started to become more prominent at job sites. Unions now had the protection of the government through such acts as the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act of 1932 and the Wagner Act of 1935. Since employees no longer had to literally fear their bosses any longer, they could demand better working conditions. At first, employees were going to be happy with better pay, better hours and safer working conditions. At present, companies offer incentives like profit-sharing, company cars, bonuses, free education at a nearby college or university and hundreds if not thousands of other programs to keep employees happy and motivated where they work.
Many theorists, management consultants and successful business people...