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This week, you read chapters in your text that addressed individual behavior in organizations

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This week, you read chapters in your text that addressed individual behavior in organizations. You have considered how values, attitudes, job satisfaction, perceptions (positive and negative), and motivation all play a significant role in how well individual employees perform on the job. Organizations, of course, are made up of many individuals. So when a company is successful, how does it bring those individuals together and meet their myriad needs to create a cohesive workforce that can achieve the company’s goals? Understanding how that is accomplished and gaining practical models that can guide your application of management theories to practice is a key purpose of your work this week.

The course text includes a sampling of companies that demonstrate particular theories. To expand those real-life examples, you will examine a broad cross section of companies that are publicly acknowledged for their success in creating an exemplary work environment. Each year, Fortune magazine ranks the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” The list of employers and/or company rankings changes each year. For this Discussion, you will select and analyze five companies from among the 100 for the current year to identify factors, including motivational techniques or programs that contribute to making each company a great place for employees to work.

With that in mind: Post a 200- to 300-word response to the following, based on the information about each company and the reading in the course text:

• What concepts from the motivational theories that you read about in Chapter 8 of the text were illustrated in the practices of the companies that you reviewed?
• Drawing on your analysis of all five companies you chose, what factors related to employee engagement and job satisfaction had the greatest influence on their positioning in the top 100?