Employee Motivation Essay

ABSTRACT

Employees are the priceless element in the achievement of organizational goals and to ensure that they are reaching their ultimate performance, they must be motivated; accordingly employees’ motivation has been one of the most continuous concerns and critical requirement for any organization due its sophisticated and personalized nature.

As an initial step organizations management pursued and applied performance-related pay schemes. However, the widespread opinions and researches acknowledged that performance related pay & incentives must be a good thing, but the evidence for its exclusive effectiveness is not overwhelming. In fact, the search for a positive relationship between performance related pay and good performance has been

Motivation is that internal drive that causes an individual to decide to take action.

Monetary Incentive: is a money-based reward given when an employee meets or exceeds expectations.

Non-Monetary Incentive: is Compensation given in a transaction which does not involve cash.

Job Promotion: is the advancement of an employee within a company position or job tasks.

Organizational Communication: is a process by which activities of a society are collected and coordinated to reach the goals of both individuals and the collective group

Job Security: Assurance (or lack of it) that an employee has about the continuity of gainful employment for his or her work life.

Leadership: is the activity of leading a group of people or an organization or the ability to do this

Employee Training: is the educational preparation for performing a job that is typically provided to staff by the business that has recently hired them before they become active in service to the company.

2/6 LITERATURE

3/2 SAMPLING PROCEDURES AND DATA COLLECTION

.1. RESEARCH STRATEGY

With the purpose of getting the research questions, a case study was an appropriate research strategy in order to obtain a prosperous understanding in the field of research. So, it was aimed to conduct a case study among 80 respondents working in different organizations (public or private) in Egypt. For the data collection purpose, questionnaire was administered through e-mails and online survey web. In total 80 working respondents were selected for the formation of sample.

.2. A RESEARCH METHOD (INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION)

A survey technique is based upon the use of structured questionnaires given to the respondents. The questionnaires are administered in three major modes: e-mail & online surveys. The questionnaires used for this study are developed for the purpose of identifying the most effective monetary and non- monetary incentives as motivators for employee performance in Egypt. Review of literature also helped us in clarifying the concepts, establishing key variables and structuring the