What Workers Want – Motivation and Needs Questionnaire

What Workers Want – Motivation and Needs Questionnaire (rank from 1 to 10; 1 is highest).

What you think (your) l What you want (‘employee answer’)

employees want (Boss l

answer) l

l

Interesting work l

l

Full appreciation of work done l

l

Feeling of being involved l

l

Job security l

l

Good wages l

l

Promotion & growth in l

Organization l

l

Good working conditions l

l

Personal loyalty to employees l

l

Tactful discipline l

l

Sympathetic help with l

personal problems l

Adopted from Kenneth A. Kovach “What Motivates Employees? Workers and Supervisors Give Different Answers”

Business Horizons, September-October, 1987: 58-65.

What Workers Want – Needs Rankings of Supervisors (about their employees) and the employee answers

Supervisors *

1946

Interesting work 5

Full appreciation of work done 8

Feeling of being involved 10

Job security 2

Good wages 1

Promotion & growth in 3

Organization

Good working conditions 4

Personal loyalty to employees 6

Tactful discipline 7

Sympathetic help with 9

personal problems

* Supervisor answers are about their employee needs rankings

What Workers Want – Needs Rankings of Supervisors (about their employees) and the employee answers

Supervisors Employees

1946 1946

Interesting work 5 6

Full appreciation of work done 8 1

Feeling of being involved 10 2

Job security 2 4

Good wages 1 5

Promotion & growth in 3 7

Organization

Good...