[Analysis And Improvement Of Productivity By Increasing Motivation]

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ABSTRACT

The globalisation of enterprises and the advancement of data technologies have conveyed alterations that are reshaping the world of work. They adjust the way enterprise is finished, the way employees act and the way managers manage their employees. Motivating and to keeping employees have become an significant and convoluted task for the managers. The key to accomplishing this task well is to find out more about the components that motivate employees.

The study aspires to set up the association between management and motivation of employees. To have a sound human resource management scheme that attracts, keeps and motivates the precious employees, it is significant that the managers find out what the employees are looking for from their jobs. The company should certainly consider the employees' motivation grades and furthermore what they require, desire or anticipate from their work.

This study utilised a questionnaire comprising motivation inquiries founded on Lindner's 10 motivational components and Nelson's 10 things to manage to motivate today's employees, in alignment to check the motivational grade of the employees at Sasol's Business. After being validated by befitting statistical procedures, the outcomes display that there is a association between management and employee motivation. The outcomes are critically considered in periods of each motivational factors.

Every manager disagrees in the way he or she manages. The key to motivating employees and manage them in modes that lead to earnings, productivity, discovery, and organisational effectiveness is to realise how to motivate them.

 

Table of Contents

ABSTRACT1

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION6

1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND6

1.2 THE RESEARCH PROBLEM7

1.3 AIM OF THE STUDY7

1.4 RESEARCH DESIGN8

1.5 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK8

1.6 KEY CONCEPTS AND THEORIES9

1.7 STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS10

1.8 SUMMARY11

CHAPTER 2 INFLUENTIAL THEORIES12

2.1 INTRODUCTION12

2.2 MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES12

2.3 MOTIVATION13

2.3.1 Motivation defined13

2.3.2 Sources of motivation13

2.3.3 Reasons for employees' need of motivation in today's world14

2.4 MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES14

2.5 INTEGRATED MODEL OF WORK MOTIVATION15

2.5.1 Needs: Maslow's desires hierarchy16

2.5.2 Values, personality: character theory17

2.5.3 Goal choice: Vroom's VIE theory18

2.5.4 Incentives19

2.5.5 Goal theory: Goal choice19

2.5.6 Social-cognitive idea and self-efficacy20

2.5.7 Goal moderators20

2.5.8 Goal and efficacy mechanisms: mediators22

2.5.9 Performance and outcomes22

2.5.10 Attribution theory24

2.5.11 Job characteristics theory: approval and dissatisfaction24

2.5.12 Organisational commitment25

2.5.13 Distributive and procedural fairness theories: equity theory26

2.5.14 Limitations of the incorporated model26

2.6 INTEGRATING IMPLICIT MOTIVES, EXPLICIT MOTIVES AND PERCEIVED ABILITIES27

2.6.1 Components of the compensatory model27

2.7 THE ROLE OF AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCE IN WORK MOTIVATION29

2.8 MOTIVATING INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS AT WORK30

2.9 SUMMARY30

CHAPTER 3 RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF WORK MOTIVATION32

3.1 INTRODUCTION32

3.2 COMPANY HISTORY32

3.3 SASOLE'S OPERATIONS32

3.4 SASOL'S PRIME ENTERPRISE33

3.5 RUDIMENTARY STAGES IN A CTL34

3.6 SUMMARY35

CHAPTER 4 MOTIVATION AT COMPANY SASOLE36

4.1 INTRODUCTION36

4.2 MOTIVATION AT SASOLE36

4.3 'BEE' IN SASOLE36

4.3.1 The require for financial ...