pensation Management

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS

Can motivation be defined as perception? What are the circumstances in which perception can influence the motive strength of an employee?

The ABT Banking Co$.$ has decided to computerize as many of its operations as possible in order to increase efficiency and customer convenience. One of their first steps was to place automatic teller machines $($ATMs$)$ in different locations in the city. The bank also started a programme that expands on telephone banking by allowing the owners of personal computers to conduct virtually all of their banking business from their homes.

These successes have caused the bank to consider use of microcomputers or terminals in the homes of their employees so that they may work at home. It is believed that this will allow greater flexibility for employees and reduces the need for office and floor space at the main and branch offices. It is clear that technology will stimulate many changes in the bank's current personnel practices as the relationship between work and the individual employee changes. The personnel manager has been asked to develop a report outlining the changes that will be necessary in the bank's personnel policies. Since the contact with immediate supervisors would be eliminated for many