MotivationMotivationEvery single day you wake up to go to work the chances are you probably want to stay in bed and wake up later, but the majority of times you don’t and you get up and get ready and then eventually arrive at work. Why do we do this? We do this because there is something driving us to do it, there is something telling us that we need to get to work, for some people it’s because they NEED the money in order to pay things like rent and bills, for others its because they feel the need to succeed and be the best they can, and for a select few its because for some reason they actually enjoy work!
I personally go to work because I need to be able to pay rent and bills however if that was the only reason that I went then I would only work part time but I have other desires that work can help me achieve I like to go out on a weekend and socialise by drinking in order to do this I need to earn so my main motivation for working the hours I do is the money. Not everybody has the same desires behind there motivation, some people who have got a fair bit of money and don’t really need to work sometimes still work, their motivation is the fact that it gets them out of the house, keeps them in touch of reality and allows them to socialise with a wide range of people.
If every day you go to work just for the basic wage, knowing fine well that there is no scope for promotion, that the job neither opens up any new doors or provides you anything other than a means to an end then the chances are you are not going to meet the needs of the business, a business requires both productivity and quality out of you. In my previous job I was working for the government and with a government job your job is pretty much guaranteed unless you commit gross misconduct of course. So if the job had not had other things to offer me then there is absolutely no way that I would have reached my potential at work as with it being a government job they could not follow Mcgregor’s theory x in which he believed that they needed more authoritative and could get people to work with threat of punishment
The Government of New Zealand (GNT) was a corporate group in the 70’s in Auckland. Its members had no real policy of anything, but they did say that they thought it was best that everyone was to enjoy a decent standard of living (which was very different to the NZ labour market in general, and working hours, or working day to day, are as important as being paid an equal wages rate as any other public or private sector function in New Zealand).
At one point, Mcgregor gave a speech on the minimum wage. This speech had been delivered to thousands of small businesses across New Zealand, and he had made clear he made the case for a maximum wage for all but the lowest paid workers. His speech went on to say that, based on his experience at the University of Auckland, he had concluded that there were “only a few” large companies that paid out a minimum wage of $15 an hour, and that they were just trying to “create a middle class” and create jobs, not to “produce a middle class of people” (Mcgregor’s speech). This makes it seem like New Zealand is quite rich in knowledge, and, although they are no different to most other developed economies from the rest of the world, Mcgregor’s views are still relevant. They are clear how to raise your basic economic base to what you expected the “working class” to be. There is nothing in this speech that makes us see how poor people in New Zealand can possibly be.
Here is the second paragraph from this speech:
I’ve been a worker. I’m an engineer. I can do more than any other person working in their fields or their business, and with that comes a certain reward that you have to bring to it. These people are probably going to want to think of you as an extra bonus that they’d never know about.
But there is something missing here. I have the honour of being a member of the NZ Labour Party who was an important member of the Auckland Labour Party as a worker and as an activist. To be considered as the NZ Labour Leader because of what happened in New Zealand is an honour that I would not have wanted to take.
Mcgregor is correct that a minimum wage is “a social standard” and a minimum wage would mean that every worker will get the same standard wages. He actually gave an interview to the NZ Labour Party and he got a much higher percentage of the people he was speaking out against. To me that seems a bit of an exaggeration on his part because he was asking an honest question of everyone, and there is nothing of consequence in that kind of behaviour. He was saying that not everybody had the same basic economic base. Even in other sectors, it was impossible to get the minimum wage without the exploitation of that basic base.
In the end, Mcgregor has to accept what his position says. New Zealand is rich in knowledge, and its people have very high standard of living. The only thing that we’re losing out on is those who are in high demand work at low wages as we have a higher minimum wage. And while employers might not want a higher minimum wage, they do