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Motivation as factor in employee perfomance

Motivation is one of the most important factors affecting human behavior and

performance. The level of motivation an individual or team exerted in their work task can

affect all aspects of organizational performance The overall success of the organizational

project depends on the teamwork and commitment which is directly related to their level

of motivation. As employees are the main resources for organizations' business activities,

the issues of employees' motivation will critically decide organizations' success my

research will find out how motivation affects employees performance in a case study of a

given organization

Focus and purpose

• To examine ways of motivating employees to put up their best.

• To assess which factors motivate workers most

• To evaluate the role that motivation plays in workers performance and

• To establish a relationship between motivation and performance.

This research work is carried out within "organization". The human resource

department of the "organization" helped in handing out the questionnaire to the 8

branches of the company, and 134 respondents were interviewed. Controlled Quota

sampling(sample group represents characteristics of a population) and a simple random

sampling method have been used to select respondents for the study. The employees have

been informed of the purpose of the study and the willing employees participated in the

study. Selective questions were asked and respondents just ticked appropriately. The

open-ended questionnaire was used for the pilot study and the result of the open-ended

questionnaire was used to formulate the closed-end structured questionnaire. The

questionnaire contained questions used to determine the non-monetary motivation

techniques: recognition, training, and authority, and freedom, job autonomy, challenging

work schedules, job security, prestigious job titles, and responsibility. The second part

contained questions used to determine remuneration motivation variables such as

benefits, bonuses, and pensions. And a final part of questions used to determine variables

such as rewards and incentives, team building activities, participation, and recognition of

individual differences, performance pay, enhanced communication, and job enrichment.

The statistical tools used for the analysis of the questionnaire are descriptive analysis,

ranking method, mean analysis (Attitude scale), one sample T-test, and principal

component factor analysis. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences(SPSS) will be the

software used to analyze data collected from questionnaires.

Employee motivation describes an employee‘s intrinsic enthusiasm and drives to

accomplish work. Motivating employees about work is the combination of fulfilling the

employee's needs and expectations from work and workplace factors that enable

employee motivation - or not. These variables make motivating employees challenging.

Motivating employees in this work environment is really hard, if not impossible. Most

work environments are not in these conditions which are very stressful and demoralizes

employees. This research will find out the relationship between motivation and

employees performance. The quantitative research methodology will be used.

Questionnaires will be the main tool used to collect data.