Employee Motivation

​ Motivation is defined as the “willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need.” (Robbins, 1993).  There are several theories of motivation. The most relevant theories of motivation explains how motivation affects employee commitment in a company.  Five methods of explaining behavior – needs, reinforcement, cognition, job characteristics, and feelings/emotions – underlie the evolution of modern theories of human motivation (Kretiner, 1998).  The study of what motivates a person to work toward a specific goal or end is known as motivation theory. It affects everyone in society, but it's extremely significant in business and management  (Anisya, 2021).   There have been a variety of motivation theories that explain similar features of motivation.  There are 5 motivation theories  (Anisya, 2021).   How to use motivation theories to increase productivity and e...

According to Kreitner and Kinicki motivation is derived from the Latin word “movere” which means to move (Kristovics et al., 2011). Butkus and Green also stated that motivation is derived from the word “motivate” which also means to move, push or persuade to act to satisfy a need (Green and Butkus, 1999). Motivated employees tend to work much better than non-motivated employees. They are the key to a successful business as they are always willing to go an extra mile. Employee Motivartion has a number of advantages. (Boye Kuranchie-Mensah and Amponsah-Tawiah, 2016). Fitz-enz stated that the average company loses approximately $1 million with every 10 managerial and professional employees who leave the organization (Fitz-Enz,J.1997). Combined with direct and indirect costs, the total cost of an exempt employee turnover is a minimum of one year’s pay and benefits, or a maximum of two years’ pay and benefits (Ramlall, 2004). When a key employee resigns, the economic impact on the organi...

Employee motivation is considered as a force that drives the employees toward attaining specific goals and objectives of the organization (Andreas Kaplan, 2014) . Basically, it refers to how well-motivated or excited a person is in the company, and how eagerly they anticipate accomplishing the assigned task and attaining the organizational objectives.   It is an asset to have motivated employees for an organization as it helps the company reach its organizational goals effectively. So, the company has to ensure that the employees are fully motivated and satisfied daily   (Kawash, Dielman and Cattell, 1972) .     There are 2 main types of employee motivations, namely;  1- Intrinsic motivation 2- Extrinsic motivation   Intrinsic motivation (IM) refers to engagement in behavior that is inherently satisfying or enjoyable. IM is non-instrumental in nature; that is, intrinsically motivated action is not contingent upon any outcome separable from the behavior...