Employee Motivation in Diverse Workforce

Abstract

Employees are the most important part of an organization. To make them perforating in accordance to the desired level it is required to provide them whatever they need to execute their work properly. Among that essential requirement is motivation which encourages an employee to perform dedicatedly for his organization. Recent times have experienced massive movements from a country to another which has led to massive hiring of culturally diverse workforce. Hiring a diverse workforce is a risk if it is not managed properly, but if they are then it can be the biggest competitive advantage for an organization. The paper discusses the concept of motivation in detail and highlights the issues and barriers that reduce the motivation in employees of an organization.

Introduction

Employees are the engine due to which an organization operates. Without employees an organization does not exist. This highlights the importance of employees in an organization, however just like the other engines which require fuel to operate; employees too require some fuel to perform effectively and efficiently. The fuel which runs employees effectively without any distortion is motivation. Motivation is, in a living organism, component or process that regulates its commitment to a specific activity. It determines the trigger in a certain direction with the desired intensity and ensures its extension to the completion or termination. This is distinct from the dynamism, energy or being active. The motivation is today a leading role in an organization. It is critical to employee productivity in an organization. Usually manifested by the deployment of energy (in various aspects such as enthusiasm, diligence, perseverance), motivation is trivially considered a stored energy that helps in enhancing the performance of employees in an organization (Noone, 2008).

But more than a form of "potential energy", the motivation is an instance of integration and regulation of a multitude of parameters related to the opportunities of an environment and to demands of a situation. Also the role of motivation is it proportional to the degree of ambiguity and ambivalence of a situation: it must dispel confusion or complexity of data and give them different values before drawing a conclusion in terms of behavior: the choice and investment in the preferred direction. The question regarding the motivation emerges primarily in situations where its role is needed primarily internal deliberation that is to say, above all when the body is faced with an arbitrary dimension of competition, priority or hierarchy to emerge to enable action.

Situations where collective and to the same requirements and individual motivations are the differentiating factors of conducted learning, competitions, activities, collective, etc.

Today's leaders and HR managers in international companies are increasingly attentive to cultural differences between employees from different countries and cultures. They found that all cultural groups do not react the same how the elements of motivation proposed by the company, which can affect work efficiency, quality of products or services. A good knowledge of the cultural employees promotes better communication, building lasting relationships and mutual trust between employees and ...