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        <Summary>One of the primary goals of all managers is to motivate employees to achieve highest-level performance. Higher employee motivation leads to greater creativity, productivity and discretionary effort, which in turn lead to improved company performance.</Summary>
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Identify strategies to motivate your employees to increase their discretionary effort, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;have a plan to implement those strategies which ultimately will contribute to your company&amp;rsquo;s success. The Following are a few examples of how employee motivation can be established.&lt;p /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: StoneSans; mso-bidi-font-family: StoneSans"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond-Italic; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Italic; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;Understand employee needs&lt;p /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: StoneSans; mso-bidi-font-family: StoneSans"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;bull; Devise employee management programs and practices that aim to satisfy emerging or unmet needs such&lt;p /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: StoneSans; mso-bidi-font-family: StoneSans"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;as offering flexible work schedules or benefit plans to employees.&lt;p /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: StoneSans; mso-bidi-font-family: StoneSans"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;bull; Actively seek employee input regarding issues that are important to them.&lt;p /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; 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