The Role Of Employee Motivation

Executive Summary

Employee motivation is the creativity and effort a company or organisation brings to the work place to encourage the employees in their job (Edward & Ryan, 2014). The role of motivating employees is the management’s concern. It has become one of the key factors that most organisations employ to foster efficiency, production, and profitability. Motivation is an intrinsic and extrinsic power employees require to work in an organisation. Therefore, employees can either be less motivated or highly motivated, culminating to poor performance or high performance respectively. In this regard, it is essential for an organisation to be well informed about the factors that influence employee motivation. The essence of proper motivation

This is clearly shown by majority of workers in a number of companies or organisations across the globe. Therefore, money is the driving force in determining the level of commitment workers have towards a particular job or company. For instance, a worker can receive benefits from the organisation he or she works at. Such may include frequent vacations, proper housing, and working conditions, but without good pay, the worker would still not be motivated to work. Poor payment of workers leads to high turnover, where employees move from one job to another as they seek for higher salaries and wages. Also, in most countries, employees boycott their duties claiming an increment in salaries. Deci, Edward, and Richard suggest that, employees who are uncomfortable in their places of work are majorly unsatisfied with the money they receive (18). Such employees see money as the only motivation, and if their financial demands are not met, they either quit the organisation, or they fail to deliver their best. (18). However, the only problem with using money as a motivating factor is that employees work for money and not because they are intrinsically motivated to do so (Pascual-Ezama et al., 2013, p.

He suggests that, such employees are never stable in the work place. They move from one company to another, based on the salary offered by a particular organisation without caring about their current job position. Basing on the hypothesis of this study, money is the best motivator for employees, since it affects the lifestyle of an individual (Mullin, 2007, p. 20). A good lifestyle brings about happiness and the motivation to work in order to meet their basic needs in life. Consequently, employees are compelled to work even harder when they are assured of higher