Employee motivation: Benefits to an organization.
Employee motivation.
Employees are one of the main assets in an organization. A
well motivated and enthusiastic work force who are very much engaged in their
jobs make up for any organizations’ growth in revenue. Pinder ( 2008), stated that the motivation can
be explain as the method which reflect employees persistence ,direction and
intensity therefor, motivated employees deliver the maximum commitment to
work. Most employees need
motivation to feel good about their jobs and perform optimally. Some employees
are money motivated while others find recognition and rewards personally
motivating (Ganta,2014). Employees are the main asset in any organization. For
this reason, management has to implement different motivation factors to
increase productivity (Dugguh, 2014).
Motivated
employees usually work out of enthusiasm and respect their job and employer and
is easily retained by the organization. Whereas the demotivated employee does
not work out of enthusiasm and true potential hence is easily detachable from
the organization. In
today’s highly competitive labor market, there is extensive evidence that
organizations regardless of size, technological advances, market focus and
other factors are facing retention challenges (Ramlall,2004). According to Ganta
(2014), "unmotivated employees are
likely to spend little or no effort in their jobs, avoid the workplace as much
as possible, exit the organization if given the opportunity and produce low
quality work. On the other hand, employees who feel motivated to work are
likely to be persistent, creative and productive, turning out high quality work
that they willingly undertake".
The following video explains on what is employee motivation.
Some managers may find it
hard to which strategies should be adhered to in motivating the employees. Each
employee differs from another so
motivation for disengaged employees has to have a more or less strategic approach. As described by Ganta
(2014) there are seven broad strategies to adapt for employee motivation as
follows;
Positive reinforcement /
high expectations
Effective discipline and
punishment
Treating people fairly
Satisfying employees needs
Setting work related goals
Restructuring jobs
Base rewards on job
performance.
The above video by Tracey (2020) gives a good insight on ways and means to employee motivation.
Benefits of employee
motivation
Well engaged and motivated
employees come up with novel creative innovations which are critical to the
survival of irganizations inside the global village now a days.such
enthusiastic employees not only accomplish their missions but also will
asAssistant motivate others also in doing so. Motivated employees are
highly productive and force others to work harder, there for, it is important for
an organization to implement different motivational factors to improve
productivity (Dugguh, 2014).
In an organization the employees’ grievances
should be met and seen to that their basic needs as per Maslow’s hierachy of
Needs theory are met atleast. Subordinate satisfaction will intern have a
positive effect on their true potential towards the job.as such carryingout
proper motivational strategies will proportionately affect the Organizational
goals achiement in the long run. For the fact that employee motivation is an
intricate and sophisticated subject, once applied in the right way an
organization is bound to achieve a long-lasting success (Abbah,2014).
List of references:
AAbbasT.M (2014. Employee
motivation:the key to effective organizational management in Nigeria. IOSR
Journal of Business and Management 16 (4).pp 1-8.
Dugguh, S.I. (2014).Using Motivation Theories to
Enhance Productivity in Cement Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria: An
Overview. The International Journal of Social Science, 20 (1).
Ganta V.C (2014). Motivation
in the work place to improve employee performance: International Journal of
Engineering Technology, Management and Applied Sciences 2.pp 221-230.
Pinder, C. C. (2008). Work Motivation in
Organizational Behaviour. London: Psychology Press.
Randall.S (2004). A review in employee
motivation theories and its implications for employee retention within
organizations: Journal
of American academy of business 5. Pp 52-63.
Dear Udana, I totally agreed with above post. Further companies can simply use Hierarchy of Needs Theory by Abram Maslow which explained that human needs exists at a number of different levels and employees tend to satisfy their lowest level of felt need before moving on to the next higher level of needs. By using this theory companies can understand employee's specific need which will help them to identify what actions are needed on their part to keep staff motivated. (Suyono & Mudjanarko, 2016)
ReplyDeleteHello Udana , I would like to add here The term "motivation" is derived from the Latin word "mover," which means "to move." Motivation is defined as "how to supply something to a person that will drive him or her to achieve something" (Ruthankoon & Ogunlana, 2003, p. 333).
ReplyDeleteDear Udana. I would like to add one of the major benefit to an organization of the motivation which is, Improves level of efficiency of employees. As a result, productivity will grow, operational costs will decrease, and overall workplace efficiency will improve (Adi, 2000).
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