Action Research Proposal: Literature Review

Action Research Proposal: Literature Review

Factors of Motivation

Leadership can be an effective factor that would help the employees in bringing up the level of motivation. If the employees are strategically aligned with the leaders of the organization, they will be better able to attain the goals and objectives that are assigned to them. Leaders are those personalities that can encourage the employees to perform and work according to the given deadlines in a better way, if they are having skills and capabilities to manage the interest level of the followers (employees) (Piccolo, et al., 2010).

Working conditions are of great importance in a workplace, as it provides extensive support to all the employees working in it. If the working conditions are designed according to the employee's capability and strength, it will definitely result in success otherwise vice versa. Working conditions include duty hour's facilities and work environment, if these are in favor of the employees they will work in a better way and will show good performance (Spector, 2011).

Relationship of managers or supervisors with the employees can be another important factor that would enhance the motivation level of the employees working within an organization (Katou & Budhwar, 2010). The managers and supervisors, who have fair relationship with all the employees, are better able to bring positive level of motivation in the employees.

In-effectiveness in organizational compensation and benefits system can also result in lower level of motivation, as it is proved from the past research works that compensation and benefits can be an important factor that would encourage the employees to work effectively and show improvement in their performance (London, 2011).

If an organization wants to maintain effective level of motivation in their employees than they need to manage all these factors that results in lack of motivation. All these factors increase the employee turnover rate that is quite expensive for an organization. So, effective strategies need to be implemented in order to address the problem indicated in problem statement (Fineman et.al, 2011).

Motivation and Performance

Since all companies are committed to produce more and better in a competitive and globalized world, the top management of organizations must use all available means to achieve its goals. These means are referred to: strategic planning, capital raising, technology, proper logistics, personnel policies, appropriate use of resources, etc. among them, management strategies and staff development are considered as the most important factor that will contribute to the achievement of business objectives and personal development of employees.

In this context, staff motivation constitutes an important means to underpin personal development of workers and thus improve productivity in the company. All managers face a daunting challenge: to motivate workers to produce the desired results, with efficiency, quality and innovation, as well as satisfaction and commitment (Nader, 2012). To maintain this level of commitment and effort, organizations need to properly assess the cooperation of its members, establishing mechanisms to have a workforce sufficiently motivated to perform efficiently and effectively, leading to the achievement of the objectives and ...