Optimisation of employees' motivation under critical consideration of variable compensation systems within the logistic department of LIGAPRODUCTION GmbH & Co. KG

Examination Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous grade: 86% European College of Business and Management (ECBM) London course: Human Resource Management language: English abstract: LIGAPRODUCTION is a full-service provider that designs plans produces and distributes high-quality point-of-sale (POS) items such as shop-window campaigns in-store elements and store-construction elements. The company also conducts event productions. Together with our mother company LIGANOVA an event and marketing agency we offer unique custom-made items and prototypes as well as large-series productions with worldwide logistics for our national and international clients. We guarantee maximum flexibility and reduced transactions costs while ensuring efficient production for our clients. These benefits stem from our concentration of six different production workshops under one roof ultra-modern infrastructure and integrated processes and information technology (IT) systems. Throughout the project our project management team maintains continual contact with our clients and supervises all production workshops. The internal logistics department consists of two handling facilities of approximately 6.000 sqm. Its services include the entire field of logistical campaign planning including packaging planning picking and packing (P&P) global shipping customs declaration and if required a montage of promotion elements all over the world.The remainder of this chapter examine the increased challenges of competition within the global logistics market and examines therefore the importance of employees as human resource of an organisation. Chapter two presents an analysis of several motivation theories and furthermore the development of individual bonus pay models. Next in chapter three the evaluation of the current situation and motivation in the logistics department of LIGAPRODUCTION as a quantitative data research takes place. Ch