Motivation and Job Satisfaction in a Technical Environment

By Minnesh Kaliprasad

This ebook provides a brief overview of motivation and job satisfaction in a technical environment. The purpose is to aid the study of the subject and to provide additional background, as well as some practical application guidelines to help the reader understand the process of motivating people.

In trying to understand what motivates people, what influences their satisfaction with their jobs and how these themes relate to each other, we should never forget why we are interested in the subjects to start of with. The end result to be achieved should be high performance in the workplace.

The purpose of motivation and job satisfaction is to utilise people to achieve organisational goals.

Many theories have risen and fallen around the subjects of motivation and job satisfaction. Many of these theories developed in the industrial age were used for some time. Soon, when people started to value their way of living and their surroundings, these theories and their application became obsolete. New ways of managing people had to be developed, and slowly the subject of “Organisational Behaviour” as a holistic concept came to the fore.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Minnesh Kaliprasad
• Release date: Sep 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463998755

Minnesh Kaliprasad

Minnesh Kaliprasad is a qualified Chemical Engineer who has migrated towards the field of project management and project controls in particular for the larger part of his working career thus far. He has over 20 years working experience with various companies ranging from the petroleum, mining, and construction sectors, in varying roles. He is currently a Project Controls Manager for South Africa's public electricity utility, ESKOM. He also holds a qualification in the field of Project Management, and a post graduate degree in Technology Management. Furthermore, he has earned accreditation from the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) for the Certified Cost Professional (CCP) and Earned Value Professional (EVP) credentials. In addition, he is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has held the positions of Technical Director and President of the Cost Engineering Association of South Africa (CEASA) which was later rebranded as the Southern African Project Controls Institute (SAPCI) under his leadership. He has had a total of 3 peer reviewed technical articles published in the Cost Engineering Journal, viz. Proactive Risk Management ( Cost Engineering Journal December 2006, Human Factor I and II, Cost Engineering Journal June 2006). The former article has since been featured in AACE International’s Professional Practice Guide to Cost Engineering in the Global Environment, while the latter two articles have been featured in AACE International’s Professional Practice Guide to Leadership and Management of People. When he is not working he is probably running, gardening, or reading.

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Motivation and Job Satisfaction in a Technical Environment

Copyright 2018 Minnesh Kaliprasad

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Other books by Minnesh Kaliprasad

Project Controls Effectiveness on Successful Construction Projects

Risk Analysis: Facilitating and Analysis Guidelines for Capital Expenditure Projects

A Balanced Life - The Important Attributes and its Impact on Work Performance

Communication and the High Performance Workplace

Conflict Management and Stakeholder Negotiations in the Technical Environment

Creating an Effective and Efficient Work Team - Managing the Group Dynamics towards Team Performance

Emotional Intelligence - The Important Attributes and the Impact of EI on Work Performance

Leadership, Power and Politics

Managing Change - The Process and Impact on People

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank the Lord Almighty for granting me yet another opportunity of writing a book about a subject I am passionate about.

I would also like to thank my wife Salika and daughter Michala for supporting me yet again in everything related to this journey of writing a book. Your constant motivation and positive energy helped me get this one over the finish line.

I am hoping that this book can be viewed as an extension of my previous books. It