Introduction As technology penetrates all areas of business operations, companies are gradually replacing tens of workers with single unit systems (Ambrose and Kulik, 1999). However, with a reduction in the number of workers, the motivation levels of the remaining employees go down. This in turn affects their level of output and the quality of work done. For a company to continue making an impact as a business establishment, it needs to come up with a committed motivational plan, which will ensure that production is not negatively affected by a destruction of the organizational culture and employee de-motivation. This essay seeks to develop a motivation plan for Woowooo Inc., a small company that produces widgets. The motivation plan that will be developed is aimed at ascertaining job satisfaction among the employees, reducing turnover, increasing productivity and ensuring that the quality of work done is high. Background Woowoo Inc. is a manufacturing company that manufactures a commodity, widgets. In a bid to keep the operation costs low, the company maintains a lean workforce of only 50, working across the all the four departments-sales, assembly, technology and administration. Assembly, being at the core of production has the biggest chunk of workers, 35, while the other departments have three workers each. Because of the increasing demand, the workers in the production department have been forced to work longer hours, with their workload having gone up significantly. This is the primary reason as to why the number of defective products exiting the production chain is going up. Motivational plan In order to ensure that the initial high quality of production is reclaimed, a number of things need to be done. First, as the proprietor of the company, it is imperative that I accept that the amount of work being done has gone up significantly and that the current number of employees cannot sustain the desired production levels (Outram and Gilbert, 2003). Therefore, the main first step of action will be to recruit more workers, particularly in the production department. With the entry of new workers, the next part of the motivation plan is to create a working schedule that will see the workers give the best output throughout the production and marketing process. Currently, the employees work up to 12 hours per day in order to sustain the increased demand for our product. However, most of them work at their optimum levels of concentration for the first six hours and then slow off for the remaining time. Getting new workers on board will see the number of hours individuals work per day go down, while increasing the quality and quantity of produced widgets. Another key change that needs to be instituted in the company is the socialization space. As things are currently, employees across the departments rarely meet to socialize. To counter this, monthly parties will be introduced, but they will be dependent on performance. This being an idea that will require some considerable expenditure will start of slow, with the employees sharing pizza and soft drinks. Later, with more targets being met, the entertainment can be ramped up. These parties will enable the employees know each other at a personal level, something that will help them work more effectively, because they will regard each other as friends, rather than co-working strangers. It is worth noting that this motivation plan does not involve increas