Impact Of Motivation On Employee Performance

1.1 Backround of study

Motivation is the answer to the development in work performance among employees. Many research and observations have shown that employees who are well motivated perform efficiently and are more productive in their work place. Employees’ motivation has been a major interest among organizations. Many organizations search for the best ways to improve job performance and productivity. The term ‘motivation’ was initially derived from a latin word ‘movere’ meaning to ‘move’.

The achievement and the survival of any organization are normally defined by the workers amount of commitment the individuals put into it and the productivity of the workers. The compensation given to the employees and

Another scholar who had similar view (Zaman 2011), argued that human resource provides basis for an organization to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Since organizations are now operating in a competitive environment, they have to motivate their employees well enough to perform efficiently and to be highly productive in the workforce. These organizations need employees who have high level performance and high level of productivity to achieve the goals of the organization, they need individuals that will provide the products and services and to succeed in the competitive benefit. The subject of employee performance cannot be over emphasized, most people say that workers will not perform their best unless there is a motivation behind it. Different researchers have come up with different ways to motivate employees but human beings are different and all have various reasons and beliefs that motivate them, some employees are motivated by only financial incentives, some are motivated with only non-financial incentives and while some are motivated by

Extrinsic motivations are those that are external to the task of the job, the motivating factors comes from outside of the individual such as salary or pay, the working condition, formal residence, job security, official car, fringe benefits, promotion, bonuses and the working environment. This motivation is caused by the need to achieve particular results, this type of motivation is needed to interest individuals in the organization and to retain them in the job, its also used to motivate the employees to aim for better results and reach new goals. A worker who is only interested in extrinsic motives will work hard on the job even if he or she is interested in the job or not because of the rewards