RESEARCH METHODS

Reward and Employee Motivation



Reward and Employee Motivation

Identification of Research Aims

The article that is selected for the analysis of research methodology is “the effect of extrinsic and intrinsic reward systems on employee motivation” by Kranzusch, M. J. (1997). The study examines the use of intrinsic and extrinsic reward system in business and their relation with the higher order desires that include self actualization, self esteem and belonging.

The aim of the research study includes whether the intrinsic reward system in stimulate employees more than the extrinsic reward system. It is objective of the study to examine the effects of the recognition system and reward that businesses use. Moreover, it also investigates the moral criteria of Emmanuel Kant to reward system in order to find out which reward systems are immoral or moral.

Research Methodology Employed

The research methodology that is employed in explaining the phenomenological inquiry of the outcomes of the reward system on the employees' motivation portrays the experience of employees in getting the reward. It is imperative and essential to know that what experience of employees regarding the reward systems. The sample size of the study comprised of 125 employees in order to collect the data pertaining to intrinsic and extrinsic reward system on motivation of employees. Moreover, the questions, which had been, asked to the participants of study designed in a way that perspectives of the employees can be obtained on the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of the employees and the reinforcement of the higher order desires that include self actualization, self esteem and belonging.

The research method that is applied in the research is the heuristic research. The heuristic research indicates the process of conversation that is an interview with the employees and reflective listening to the comments made by the employees was selected in an attempt to lift out formerly unexpressed or disguised feelings or thoughts on the subject of the use of intrinsic and extrinsic employee rewards. Besides it, the study selects the qualitative methodology in order that feelings of employees concerning the moral values of reward systems could be more evidently obtained in contrast to the use of the questionnaire and asking employees to answer the questions to in the form of a Likert scale.

Heuristic methods include observation and experiment; the observation is the most versatile and the most difficult method. The reason of this statement is that it is a planned, deliberate and systematic process of collection of facts and events, and their analysis. The observations that include the interviews characterized by the lack of interference researcher in a process that analyzed, an accurate description of the reality of the process; recording and measurement of individual activities and facts; activity, desirability, premeditation and regularity. Moreover, the heuristic method of observation is a self-test method and technique for the views of the participants which helps in the purpose of the research that is the intrinsic and extrinsic reward system on motivation of employees.

The study of the intrinsic and extrinsic reward system on motivation of employees ...