Factors affecting employee motivation

 

As per Bartlett and Ghoshal  (1989),  Employee motivation is defined as the enthusiasm, energy level, commitment and the amount of creativity that an employee brings to the organization on a daily basis. Employee motivation is all about how involved and empowered an employee feels in relation to the organization's goals. There are two sorts of motivation:

1. Intrinsic motivation

2. Extrinsic motivation

Motivated workers are an important aspect of an organization and are directly proportionate to its success. Motivation is intangible, difficult to measure, and tough to control, but it is quite simple to facilitate when done correctly. It's all about focus, determination, and persistence. There are many factors affecting employee’s motivation (Economy class upgrading - Sunday times,2018).

§  Training and development - Training & Development function is the essential for the employees. Because growth of the organization is based on skills & attitude of the employees and positive motive for the employees.

§  Health and safety - Any Organization should concern about employee’s safety & Health. It’s very important to well-being & reputation. If the company maintains employee’s safety & health in their maximum level employer can avoid legal issue of health & safety and a positive motive for the employees

§  Rewards management is concerned with, formulation and implementation of strategies and policies, with the purpose to reward people fairly, equitably and consistently, in accordance with their value to the organization and thus help the organization to achieve its strategic objectives and to motivate employees.

§  HR planning - Human Resource Planning is the systematic and continuing process of analyzing an organization human resource needs under changing conditions and developing personal policies appropriate to the long-term effectiveness to the organization and to motivate employees for their wellbeing.

§  Performance evaluation – this function is very important in identification of developmental needs of the employees and o motivate employees by arranging them personal development pan through performance evaluation.

 

References

Bartlett, C. A. and Ghoshal, S., (1989). Managing Across borders: The Transnational solution. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. [Access Date 24nd of August 2021]

 

Economy class upgrading - Sunday times, (2018). Strategies for tourism industry. [Online] Available at: http://sundaytimes.lk/110731/BusinessTimes/bt18.html  [Access Date 24nd of August 2021]

 

Kotler, John P., (1947), Leading change: United states of America, Harvard business school press.  [Access Date 24nd of August 2021] 


Comments

  1. While adding to some of your valuable thoughts, In fact, any organization needs to more focus on Training and development, The terms "training" and "development" are interchangeable. It can, however, be distinguished from the others. Training is for specific job needs, however, development is about more than that. Development encompasses more than just actions that increase job performance (Nda, M.M. and Fard, R.Y., 2013).

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  2. Agreed with the argument. In addition, Books (2007) found that six factors impact employee motivation in his research: work performance, attitude, goal setting, performance feedback, empowerment/power and job satisfaction.

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  3. Just to add that, Motivation is an aspect that helps an individual to select or deselect the job, to continue and work proficiently during his/her job (Lin, 2008). Further, the motivational research proposes to facilitate the individuals to get motivated through the target to satisfy their unconvinced desires; consequently they apply their endeavor hoping to be satisfied with their needs. Conversely, modern studies’ regarding the motivation doesn’t highlight the Basel desire conception, but in addition they highlight the objective, equality, and values (Wang, 2004).

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  4. Agree while adding few ,‘The logic in favors of bundling is obvious,' Dyer and Reeves (1995: 656–57) wrote. It makes logical to have practices geared at improving both ability and motivation, because employee performance is a result of both.' As a result, there are a variety of means for employees to learn needed abilities (such as careful selection and training) as well as a variety of incentives to boost motivation (such as various financial and non-financial rewards).

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  5. "Motivation is the force that energizes, directs and
    sustains behaviour. High performance is achieved by
    well-motivated people who are prepared to exercise
    discretionary effort, ie independently do more than
    is expected of them." (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014, p169)

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  6. Agreed, intrinsic motivation is the desire of an employee to do his/her work well, in order to achieve the satisfaction of intrinsic needs. In other words, an employee performs a task in order to achieve certain types of internal states, which the person experiences as intrinsic motivation relates to psychological rewards such as the recognition of a task completed (Caroline, 2014).

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  7. Agree with your views. Adding to your points further, It should also be realized that the employee performance is also negatively affected by stress at work place, hence it is of significant value to evaluate the current processes and practices which are responsible for creating stressful situation in order to not to effect the performance (Kakkos et al, 2010)

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  8. Totally agreed
    Employee commitment and job involvement is high when they keep motivated; they are more productive and always rewarding to businesses. Specially in a work place like a garment factory, its necessary that employee motivation to handle a huge work load. (Denton, 1987)

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  9. Yes Agree, Also Phuong and Tu (2017) earlier defined motivation as the willingness, passion, and efforts to achieve organizational goals and employee performance. As well as, motivation is a major element of labor potentials that employees experienced in their workplaces that significantly relates to employee productivity (Cantele & Zardini, 2018)

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