Advantages Of Information Gathering

2.0 INFORMATION GATHERING

2.1 Sources of Information

The sources of information employed for this study are primary sources (survey questionnaire and interviews) and secondary sources (external secondary data such as books, internet-sourced academic journals; useful past research findings; technical publications; dissertations and theses; magazine and online newspaper articles; and conference reports and internal secondary data such as organisation employee policies manual, employee appraisal processes and appraisal reports, employee day-to-day operations reports).

2.1.1 Primary Data

There is no prior existence of the primary data used for this study. This was collected from the questionnaires and personal interview forms that were

The primary information gathering using questionnaire and personal interview forms were limited by the time involved and the cost of administering the research instrument on the whole employees of RHS Ltd., especially as the cost of printing on paper had gone up.

The secondary information gathering using external secondary data were affected by the sensitivity and confidentiality of the organizational data to be gathered irrespective of the privileges accorded me. As regards dissertations and theses; magazine and online newspaper articles; and conference reports, not much were gathered in that regards nevertheless I was able to make good use of them. The lack of relevance and compatibility with research goals also limited the secondary information gathering. Therefore, to minimise these limitations, I checked and streamlined the secondary information to conform to the objectives of the study. As a result, some pertinent insights were elicited on motivation and employee performance in RHS

For example, under the impression that motivation was a more efficient predictor of achievement than intelligence, McClelland used the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to measure motivation and was criticized. Critics of McClelland 's theory state that there are issues with the validity concerning the TAT extrapolations and estimations used to determine the level of individual needs (Redmond, 2009). Moreover, McClelland proposed no lower