Article 1

In the current business scenario, maintaining the motivation level of the employees is having much importance for the business organizations. This is due to the reason that, the more motivated will be the employees in their workplace, the more competitive advantages will be gained by the organizations. Thus, it is important for the business organizations to initiate various measures to enhance the level of motivation of their employees. Initiation of effective communication tools is one of the prime measures being taken by the business organizations to enhance the motivation level of the employees. This is due to the fact that, the more effective and efficient will be the communication tool, the more effective will be the connectivity and internal relationship among the internal stakeholders. Thus, requirement and expectation will be effectively communicated. Hence, for all these reasons, Boosting workplace motivation through innovative communication is being selected for further discussion.

Article: 1

This article is being chosen due its holistic view on the importance of the business communication. It is being stated in this article that, initiation of the effective and innovative communication tools will help the business organizations to enhance the organizational identification of the employees (Maneerat, Hale & Singhal, 2005). This article is helpful due to the fact that, two realistic organizations are being taken as example for the comparison and the advantages of having the effective communication tools are being evaluated. Thus, this article will be helpful in writing the report regarding effectiveness of the communication in motivating the employees. 

Article: 2

The key objective of this article is to discuss about the important of the business communication in enhancing the organizational commit5ment of the employees. According to this article, it is being stated that, the more effective will be the communication in the organization, the more feedback can be generated from the employees. Thus, according to the authors, if the employees can effectively provide their feedback, then they will feel more motivated in their workplace, which in turn will enhance their organizational effectiveness (Walden, Jung & Westerman, 2017). Though this article have not stated about any specific communication tool, but the advantages that the business organizations will gain from having the effective communication channel have been elaborated in this article.

Article: 3

This article discussed about the effectiveness of the social media in enhancing the level of motivation for the employees in their workplace. In this article, a study is being conducted in a public sector enterprise in Rwanda regarding the use of the social media of the employees. Several responses are being gathered and it is being concluded that, using of social media by the employees helps them to enhance their concentration and motivation in their workplace (Nduhura & Prieler, 2017). Thus, their effectiveness and productivity in the organization also get increased. This article is being shortlisted due to the reason that, it portrays the benefits of involving the use of social media in their workplace.

Article: 4

This article states about the impact of the effective communicational channels on the employee performance and motivation. According to the authors of this article, it is important for the business organizations to choose and enhance the internal communication channel due to the reason that the motivation and involvement of the employees in the organizations is being determined by the effectiveness of the communication channel (Mikkelson, Hesse, & Sloan, 2017). Thus, this article will be helpful in determining the effectiveness of the using of innovative and new method of business communication in the organizations. Due to the fact that, this report will be about the initiation of the innovative communication channel in motivating the employees, thus, this article will be helpful in concluding the report.

Article 2

Article: 5

This article specifically discussed about the effectiveness of the innovative and contemporary communicational approaches in motivating and involving the employees in their workplace. Moreover, according to the authors of this article, innovative and contemporary communication channels also help the business organizations in building trust among the internal stakeholders (Rogers 1993). Thus, the more will be the mutual understanding and trust among the employees, the more will be the effectiveness and performance of the employees in the organizations. Hence, this article will help to prove the effectiveness of the innovative and contemporary communicating approaches in motivating the employees in their workplace and thus this article is being shortlisted to be used in the report.

Article: 6

This article discussed not about the impact and effectiveness of innovative communication tools in motivating the employees, rather it discuss about the aftermath of the employee motivation. According to the author of this article, motivating the employees through various activities such as initiation of the innovative communication channel will help the organization to increase their productivity with the same resources. Thus, according to the author, employee motivation should be given more importance by the business organizations in order to enhance the performance of their employees. This article is being shortlisted due to the reason that, the discussion in this article will be helpful in proving the importance of initiation of different activities for enhancing the motivation level of the employees.

Article: 7

This article discuss about the importance of using the innovative and contemporary business communication tool in mitigating and managing the contemporary issues in the organizations. This is due to the fact that, according to the authors, contemporary business organizations are having diversified workforce having employees belonging from different cultural and social backgrounds (Mao & Hale, 2015). With the change in time, various diversified issues are being generated in the business organizations, which need innovative approaches to overcome. Thus, it is important for the contemporary business organizations to come up and initiate innovative communication channels to prevent the issues of generation of the diversity related problems. This article is being shortlisted due to the reason that, it will help to prove the importance and necessity of the innovative communication tool for the contemporary business organizations.

Article: 8

In discussing the importance of initiation of innovative communication approaches for the contemporary business organizations, it is also important to discuss about the potential long term benefits of the same. Thus, this article is being shortlisted to discuss about the benefits of the initiation of the innovative approaches of communication. According to the authors of this article, one of the key benefits of initiation of the innovative approaches of communication is the employee motivation along with organizational citizenship. According to the authors, the more motivated will be the employees; the more will be the organizational citizenship towards the organization (Brown, & Roloff, 2015). Thus, this will enable the employees to take up extra and added responsibilities in the organization, which will in turn enhance the organizational performance.

Article 3

Article: 9

There are various types of modes of communication are being used for enhancing the organizational effectiveness. One of the key modes of communication among the internal organizational stakeholders is the feedback mechanism. This article elaborately discuss about the benefits and merits of feedback mechanism for the employees as well as for the upper level management (Cusella, 1981). According to the authors, initiation of the feedback mechanism will help the organizations to gather the requirement and expectation from the employees effectively. In addition, it will enable the upper level management to modify the organizational culture and procedures. Thus, this article will be helpful due to the reason that, critical analysis of this article will help to determine the feedback mechanism in motivating the employees in the organizations.

Article: 10

There are various determining factors for the communication system in the organization. In initiation of the effective communication tool in the organization, these determining factors should be considered. This article discussed about the internal communicational factors such as technology, organizational learning and organizational innovation. According to the authors, these factors are important to be considered by the business organizations in initiation of effective communication toll (García-Morales, Matías-Reche, & Verdú-Jover, 2011). Moreover, it is also being stated that, the more effectively these factors will be considered, the more effective fulfillment of the requirement of the employees will be possible. This article will be helpful due to the reason that, in discussing about the communicational tools for the business organizations, these factors should be identified and discussed.

Conclusion

The articles being discussed above in this essay will help to critically analyze the effectiveness of innovative communication tools in motivating the employees. In addition, analysis of these articles helped to determine the requirement and importance of initiation of the innovative communication tools for motivating the employees. All the required aspects are being covered in this essay with the discussion of the articles. It is being expected that, critical analysis of these articles will help to present the report effectively covering all the required elements of the innovative communication tools. All the articles here in this essay covered all the dimensions such as determining factors, modes, types and impacts of the innovative communication tools in motivating the employees.

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