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How can Start-up Business Firms Keep the Motivations of Employees?

Authors:
Tomomi Kobayashi
Satoshi Takahashi
Masaaki Kunigami
Atsushi Yoshikawa
Takao Terano

Keywords: Agent based modeling; start-up business firm; organizational life cycle

Abstract:
This paper describes an agent based model of a start-up business firm for analyzing the conflict between the organizational performance and its employee motivation. Start-up business firms tend to change its management strategies with the growth of the firm in order to increase the productivity and business performance. However, those changes may cause negative impacts on the motivation or entrepreneurship of its employee, and they might weaken the vitality of the firm for sustainable growth. According to those considerations, we have conducted the agent based simulation and have gotten the following suggestions.　1) Building management structures increases organizational performance while decreasing employee motivation.　2) Keeping the initial informal management style by not building a management structure makes employee motivation increase, however, it makes organizational performance decline.　3) Informal networks among diversified employees can ease the negative impact of building a management structure.

Pages: 173 to 178

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: March 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-329-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014