Government Workplace Motivation

Paper Summary:

This paper describes the structure, mission, change and employee problems of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and its National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM). The paper points out that, to motivate employees, it is essential to develop systems, which create environments where individuals can look at the many tasks ahead of them and be engaged and empowered, which is the clear key to motivation of the workforce, in and out of the public sector. The paper also points out that allowing government employees a stake in decisions by employing techniques, which stress employee engagement, enablement and integrity, is crucial.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Statement of Problem
Review of Literature
Analysis
Solutions
Reflection
Appendix 1: CDC NCHM Leadership
Appendix 2: Key NCHM Activities

From the Paper:

"Lastly, Trahant stresses the importance of fostering integrity, especially in the public sector, where much of the public opinion, with regard to bureaucratic integrity has waned as popular media frequently emphasizes integrity failings within the existing and past systems, marking it as the reason for countless misappropriation of funds, as well as in other failings to the public. Without this aspect of motivation, and the existence of high levels of integrity within the system there is a clear sense that the government will continue to be curtailed in efforts to provide public services."

Sample of Sources Used:

• CDC Website: "Mission" Retrieved August 1, 2007 at: http://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm
• ---"About the NCHM" Retrieved August, 1 2007 at:http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/aboutNCHM.htm
• --- Bernhardt, Jay M. Blog Posted July, 13 2006, Retrieved August, 1, 2007 at: http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/blog.htm
• Little, J. S. (1995). The Impact of Employer Payments for Health Insurance and Social Security on the Premium for Education and Earnings Inequality. 25.
• Nash, J. L., & Smith, S. (2004, July). The Reorganization of the CDC and Its Impact on NIOSH: Critics of the Reorganization Plan for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worry That the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Could Get Lost in the Shuffle. Occupational Hazards, 66, 51.

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