A Case Study Of Employee Motivation

This study will be focused on assessing how SMEs employers motivate their employees in order to reach company goals and objectives. It will also asses if companies incentives meet the needs of employees as well as how non-financial incentives impact employees and how motivations factors productivity in the organisation.Furthermore the essay will seek to find out what demotivates employees and what employers are doing about demotivated employees.

Motivation has been studied for decades and leaders in the workplace have used assessments like DISC and Myers-Briggs to determine their employee’s personality types to better anticipate behaviors and tendencies. Additionally, motivational books are used as tools to get employees to increase their

Depending on what is incentivized, employers can encourage teamwork and cooperation or damage it. If you provide an individual sales incentive to sales staff, for example, you guarantee that your sales force will not work together to make sales.

Alternatively, provide a team incentive and employees will follow up each other’s leads, share best methods, and work as a team to make sales.

The primary aim of this study is to understand the relationship between employee work motivation and company incentives. The study also analyzes the main motivation theories and approaches commonly used and followed. Knowing these approaches will allow the organization taking the decision about the type of motivation incentives/ approaches to be used effectively. In order to do so, the following objectives should be achieved:

Research Objectives

• To find out how SMEs motivate their employees

• To understand factors that can motivate workers

• To asses if organizations non-financial incentives motivate employees

• To find out challenges that organizations have in motivating their

• What are the factors that can be used to motivate workers to work with their best effort towards the assigned task?

• Do non-financial incentives motivate employees?

• What challenges do SMEs face in having to motivate their employees?

• How do you overcome challenges faced?

• What is the importance of motivation and how can it benefit the organization?

• What causes demotivation?

• What workers SMEs think their employers should improve to motivate and retain them?

• What measure does one put in place to accomplish employee motivation?

Methodology

The aim of this thesis is to elaborate on the relationship between organisations incentives to employers, employee motivation and employee performance and to provide organizations and managers useful information on this.

The answers to all research questions will be based on literature research and also by administering a questionnaire on some of the research quetions. Thus, by

Conducting a comprehensive review of the published work concerning the subject