A couple jobs ago a company I worked for started bringing in motivational speakers for its companywide meetings and doing moral boosting exercises. I quit soon afterwards because it was quite apparent that wasn't going to do a thing about our production quality problems.
Nothing wrong with motivation on the job while working, like the management giving encouragement to the workers and being THERE DURING PRODUCTION. Walking the floor, listening to the employees, actually being a manager without being a mother hen. “How’s it going?”, “What problems are you having?”, “We’ll get that fixed.” “Let me help you”. The management at this place was never seen..no carpeting on the production floor. Crap like I mentioned does nothing. Taking time out to play games at the cost of the employees and production because it just looks good is terrible management.