Motivation as Performance Enhancer of Employees in Hardware Companies in Davao City

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Background of the Study

Every single part of an organization has its importance. In order for the whole system to function properly, each employee should be able to receive a compensation that is equivalent to their hard work. Almost always, the front-liners or the employees who are at the bottom of the hierarchy are the ones who are making direct contact with the customers.

According to Busscher (2012), owner of Piston Home Hardware in Ontario Canada stated that, they run an "Outstanding Employee" program. Each month they recognize their employees who have shown a remarkable performance. The whole program consists of different creative and fun ways in recognizing employees. They run their picture in their local newspaper and promote it on their Facebook page and their website. It also includes an 'eat-out' with the managers and even gain an entry for the drawing where the reward is a paid week off. The whole program did not just make it fun for management and the employees but also for their customers. They were amazed when they realized how customers appreciate it when their favorite employees are recognized. From time to time, they have customers who would come by and thank them for recognizing some of their employees. He says that it is truly an honorable experience.

In many countries like Philippines, the upper management plays an important role on how to keep its employees functioning at a satisfactory level. It has to be sensitive enough to see even the small changes in their employee’s usual behavior towards work. In order to do this, the management should keep in touch of its subordinates and be “hands-on” as much as possible. Constant interaction between different employee levels would star...

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...hable because time will come that they would outgrow the job and will feel that they could always workarounds to be able to slip away from their petty mistakes.

Though in some situation, it is being operated side by side. But as a research topic, we will employ the motivation used by the upper management of organization in enhancing their employee’s performance and the extent to which non-financial aspects of motivation turn to enhance employee’s performance. To evaluate the methods of performance motivation in organization in organizing some motivational factors like satisfies and dissatisfies will be used to evaluate how employees performance is enhanced.

Motivation in project teams is thus a theme that could benefit from being further researched and more importantly how it can be created and enhanced through effective leadership, which is the aim of this study.