What Are The Factors That Effect Employee Motivation

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that effects employee motivation and examining the relationship between organizational effectiveness and employee motivation. A mold was designed based on the literature, linking factors of employee motivation with employee motivation and organizational effectiveness. The literature and various studies concluded that factors. Empowerment and recognition have positive effect on employee motivation. More the empowerment and recognition of employees in an organization is increased, more will their motivation to work will enhance. The more the employees are motive to tasks accomplishment higher will the organizational performance and success.

Keywords: Recognition, Appreciation, Working

KaleeemUllah Khan, et al (2010) find that the four variables, viz., payment, promotion, benefits and recognition have a positive correlation with work motivation. Among these four independent variables, promotion had the greater influence on employee motivation. Deanne N Den Hartong, and Frank D Belschak, (2007) found that the four forms of commitment, viz., Organisation, Supervisor, Work-Group and Career are positively correlated to employees’ personal initiative behaviour. In other words, if employees have positive and motivated attitude, then their personal initiative at workplace goes up. The results of the second sample were identical with the results of the first sample, except in the case of self-rated and manager-rated personal initiative, in which case the correlation was only moderate. Gary Jon Springer (2010) tried to ascertain the effects of job motivation and job satisfaction on job performance through seventy randomly selected bank employees. Collected data was analysed, applying both Pearson Correlation and multiple regression techniques. Hersey & Blanchard (1969) ranked the following factors as top motivating factors: (1) full appreciation of work done, (2) feeling of being (3) sympathetic help with personal problems, (4) job security (5) Good wages/salaries as the five top motivational factors out of ten factors. Carolyn Wiley (1997) in his research says that the priorities of what motivates the employees over the years has been changing. Liba A. J and Nchorbono A. D (2011) investigate the ways through which employees can be motivated to perform at their best and to evaluate the factors which contribute to motivating the workers of University for Developmental Studies (UDS), Wa Campus, Ghana. The important point to be noted here is that these findings will vary from