Employee Motivation

INTRODUCTION

Employee motivation is the level of energy, commitment, and creativity that a company’s workers bring to their jobs. Whether the company is growing or shrinking, finding ways to motivate employees is a management concern. Competing theories stress their incentives or employee involvement (empowerment).

Employee motivation always not clearly understood and more often than that poorly practiced. To understand motivation one must understand human nature itself. And there lies the problem. Human nature can be very simple, yet complex too. An understanding and appreciation of this is a prerequisite to effective employee motivation in the workplace and therefore effective management and leadership.

Why we need to study and apply employee motivation principles? It is because quite apart from benefits and morale value of an altruistic approach to treating colleagues as human beings and respecting human dignity in all its forms, research and observation show that well motivated employees are more productive and creative. The inverse also holds true and the systematic below indicates the potentials contributions the practical application of the principles this paper has reducing work content in the organization.

Motivation is the key to performance improvement, which is they will do what they want to do or otherwise motivated to do it. Whether to excel on the workshop floor or in the ‘ivory tower’ they must be motivated or driven to it, either by themselves or through external stimuli. Are all employee born with self-motivated or drive? Yes and no. if no, they can be motivated, for motivation is a skills which can be and must be learnt. This is essential for any business to survive and succeed.

Performance is considered to be a function of ability and motivation, thus:

• Job performance = f(ability)(motivation)

Ability in turn depends on education, experience, and training and its improvement is a slow and long process. On the other hand motivation...