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IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION & JOB SATISFACTION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

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In today's business environment as it is true with high job losses due to layoff and retrenchment to create a lean organization, it is also note worthy for organizations to stop loses of performing employees due to decreasing job satisfaction and lack of motivation to continue with the organization for long. Motivated and satisfied employees will have committed approach towards organizational objective; in turn organizations will also have to show similar commitment towards employee objectives. Here the role of HR is to continuously work towards alignment of aspirations of the employee with the goals of the organization. This objective can be achieved by creating inspiring work environment which promotes and addresses employee need for growth and development. These factors although complex in nature and as they could not be addressed for individual employee basis as it may vary case to case it is important for HR to explore the common areas of intersection. Job satisfaction or employee motivation is studied not just to handle the turnover but also there are other adverse effects of dissatisfaction like absenteeism, low performance, lower morale, low contribution to the team, less coordination, less orientation towards organizational objective these could affect the organization capacity to compete in the highly competitive business environment. Hence the HR has to induce an organizational environment and promote organizational culture which takes in to consideration of the prevailing need.
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IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION & JOB SATISFACTION
FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
DR.CHANDRAKANT VARMA
ASST. PROFESSOR,
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH,
AFFILIATED TO UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI.
ABSTRACT
In today’s business environment as it is true with high job losses due to layoff and retrenchment
to create a lean organization, it is also note worthy for organizations to stop loses of performing
employees due to decreasing job satisfaction and lack of motivation to continue with the
organization for long. Motivated and satisfied employees will have committed approach towards
organizational objective; in turn organizations will also have to show similar commitment
towards employee objectives. Here the role of HR is to continuously work towards alignment of
aspirations of the employee with the goals of the organization. This objective can be achieved by
creating inspiring work environment which promotes and addresses employee need for growth
and development. These factors although complex in nature and as they could not be addressed
for individual employee basis as it may vary case to case it is important for HR to explore the
common areas of intersection. Job satisfaction or employee motivation is studied not just to
handle the turnover but also there are other adverse effects of dissatisfaction like absenteeism,
low performance, lower morale, low contribution to the team, less coordination, less orientation
towards organizational objective these could affect the organization capacity to compete in the
highly competitive business environment. Hence the HR has to induce an organizational
environment and promote organizational culture which takes in to consideration of the prevailing
need.
KEY WORDS: Job satisfaction, Motivation, Human resource Management, worker
commitment, organizational culture.
Introduction
Global business environment if fast changing and the organizations which are adaptable to the
change are the one going to survive. Organizations need to frame strategies in order to endure the
challenging competition, and the one which are able to survive will be able to sustain longer than
others. One of the greatest challenges organizations face today is how to manage turnover of
work force that may be caused by migration of a lot of industrial workers. This may be because
of their lack of Motivation and commitment for the organization; this point of view emphasizes
the importance of the study of Motivation and its relationship to Job Satisfaction (Prof. S. K.
Singh & Vivek Tiwari, 2011). The HRM policies and practices should be directed in such a
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manner that they are aligned to the organization strategies and also understand the employee
expectations. These strategies are not just directed towards the retention and attraction but also
overcome other adverse effects of demotivation and dissatisfaction such as absenteeism, low
performance, lower morale, low contribution to the team, less coordination, less orientation
towards organizational objective these could affect the organization capacity to compete in the
highly competitive business environment. This makes it important to study and understand the
factors which motivate and create job satisfaction among employees.
As a part of such a competitive business environment every organization has to plan and
strategize as per the prevailing business situation. Today the organizations are highly focused on
customer preferences so as to maximize the returns of business. The organizations have also
realized the importance of building internal competency and capacity so as to survive and
compete in this dynamic business environment. Ensuring employee commitment towards
organizational objective has been a critical issue faced by majority of the organization.
Organizations are doing their best in understanding various factors which could motivate the
employees and make sure of the required commitment towards organizational objective. The
organizations failing to development such framework of organizational practices will result in to
high turnover of employees which will burden organization with extra cost of hiring and training
new employees as well as non execution of organization plans and strategies in the desired
manner and low productivity and performance.
The four most important indicators are factors that are somewhat amenable to change. For
example, increasing training opportunities, improving the physical working conditions and
environment through improved physical structures, equipment, and materials, may help improve
these important working conditions. Other highly discordant factors (greater than 40%
discordance) included opportunity to advance, good employment benefits, time for family life,
good income, and being based in a good location (Peters et al, 2010). These factors of job
satisfaction are very dynamic in nature and every factor has a varying effect on the employee
motivation. Hence it is important for the organization to maintain the stock and composition of
factors influencing employee motivation and job satisfaction so as to take rightful measures in
time to enable to face competition. This has brought high level of responsibility on HR of the
organization to update themselves with current level of satisfaction and motivation among
employees to ensure the required level of commitment.
Need for study on Employee motivation
Every successful organization is backed by a committed employee base, and the commitment is
the outcome of motivation and job satisfaction. It is the energy that compels employees towards
organizational objective. It would be impossible for the organization to generate performance
without commitment. In order to create a competitive advantage organization need to have a
competitive employee policies and practices.
Motivation is an important stimulation which directs human behavior. No individual has same
attitude or behavior, hence in midst of this diversity organization are supposed to frame practices
which will be able to satisfy the group and not just an individual. Organization should be abe to
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identify and evaluate internal motivation which an employee derives from job satisfaction and
further enhance it with external motivation as required for which organization could take note of
motivation theories.
There have been number of theories on motivation explaining similar aspects of motivation, they
are as following:
Maslow’s need hierarchy theory: The theory explains five levels of need which follow a
hierarchy. The need for the next level arises with the fulfillment of the earlier need. Following
are the needs Physiological needs, safety and security need, Social need, Self worth and Self
actualization. There are exception to the theory that sometimes the need may not follow the
hierarchy due to unpredictable attitude and behavior of the human being.
Herzberg’s two-factor theory: The theory is also known as two factor theory motivation factors
and hygiene factors. The theory states that there are certain factors in the organizational
environment which if present will be to motivate the employees and certain factors if available
may satisfy the employees but if not there do not lead to dissatisfaction.
McGregor’s theory ‘x’ and theory ‘y’: The theory states that function of motivating people
involves certain assumption about human nature. Theory X and Y are two sets of assumptions
about the nature of people. Every set of nature will have to adopt different way to motivate and
achieve the results.
Vroom’s valence x expectancy theory: The theory is also known as expectancy theory and
states that the behavior of an employee depends on the expected outcome of the act.
Goal-setting theory: The theory is based on the principle of goal clarity being an important
factor of motivation.
ERG theory of motivation: The theory proposed by Clayton is an modified version of
Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of need. The theory divides needs in to three categories Existence,
relatedness and growth.
McClelland’s theory of needs: The theory stresses that the human behavior is affected by three
needs Power, Achievement and Affiliation.
Reinforcement theory of motivation: The theory founded by B F. Skinner and his associates
proposed that the individual behavior if function of its consequence. It is based on the law of
effect.
Equity theory of motivation: The theory is based on the principle of equality. It states that the
motivation is related to directly to the perception of equity practiced by the organization.
Literature Review
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Job satisfaction is a fulfilling or optimistic expression consequential of the consideration of one’s
activity (Azash et al, 2011). Organizations today have realized the importance of motivated and
satisfied employees as important contributors towards long term objectives. It has made
organizations to cater to the expectations and needs of the employees and could expect the
similar response. Motivation also positively influences performance at individual and group level
ultimately affecting the organizational performance (Risambessy et al 2012).
It has been long thought that learning new things and competency development opportunities
raises the morale and satisfaction of the employees but it is also realized that the significant
effect on the motivation and job satisfaction is created by goal achievement (Lather and Jain,
2005). Also the managers and the supervisors support towards encouraging employee
participation, mutual commitment, and understanding of the diversity issues play a significant
role in motivating and enabling performance (Snyder et al, 2004). The prerogative lies with the
organization management, in order to extract performance should create an alignment between
the organizational and employee goals and objective. It is the organizational behavior
represented by the organizational senior management which effects the level motivation and
satisfaction through its beliefs, principle and underlying values which are closely followed by
organization (Roos, Van Eeden, 2008). Organizations core potential lies in its motivated and
satisfied employees who consistently contribute towards organization goals and objective.
Effective HRM system could be a great deal of assistance in keeping employee morale high
(Kumar and Garg, 2011). It is not possible for any division to solely motivate and satisfy
employees without support of the senior management active participation and interest (K R.
Solanki, 2013). Dina Maria LUT, 2012 also supports the view considering the uniqueness of
the individual behavior and attitude with variety of expectations and needs which can have
variable effect on the performance. Higher Management have to take clue of dropping
performance may not be due to the external factors of motivation but could be effect of
dissatisfaction from the tasks and the output achieved. They have to focus on developing jobs
which involves employee and motivates and fulfills the daily expectation (Tietjen and Myers,
1998). It should also be realized that the employee performance is also negatively affected by
stress at work place, hence it is of significant value to evaluate the current processes and
practices which are responsible for creating stressful situation in order to not to effect the
performance (Kakkos et al, 2010). Here designing job content which are more interesting in
nature is critical, job enrichment could be one strategy to motivate employees (Fred C.
Lunenburg, 2011).
Organizations need to encourage employee initiatives and participation as this will help build
leadership at different levels. For leadership roles formal authority is not the criteria but the
initiatives and innovation are. Employee’s at all the level can choose to act as a leader if given an
opportunity and this further helps motivating and influencing other employees (Jeffrey L.
Herman et al, 2011).
In a research it was observed that the satisfied employees show higher level of motivation and
commitment ultimately positive impact on the performance and behavior of employees reflected
in their productivity. Today’s business environment is such that more or less most of the resource
are available and could be acquired but the talented human resource is not easily available and if
found takes time to develop and effectively perform for which human resource management
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activities play a critically important role in developing such employee base and optimal
utilization. It is the key factor to create a competitive edge (Chen et al, 2012).
Objectives of the research
To understand the impact of HRM policies and practices on employee motivation and job
satisfaction.
To explore effective ways of motivation practiced by organizations.
To explore the challenges to motivation and job satisfaction.
To understand the factors contribute towards motivation and job satisfaction creating
employee commitment.
Importance of motivation
Organizations are in deep need of motivated employees as it is being understood that motivation
affects helps achieve following organizational objectives:
Unified direction of the group/Teams
Higher level of effectiveness and efficiency
Elevated organizational commitment
Optimum use of resources
Building a performance oriented environment (Creative & Innovative)
Increases organization ability to face uncertain business challenges
Employee retention and attraction for stable and continuous manpower supply
Challenges to motivation
It is altogether not very easy for an organization to create a motivated and committed
environment, following are a few challenges faced:
Dynamic and competitive business environment
Ignorance and less understanding of importance motivation on the part of management
Non commitment of organization towards employee expectation, a narrow mindset
Non competitive organizational structure and people policies and practices
Less understanding of the employee expectations
Existing performance management system
The vague organizational expectation from employees
Competitive employee market, creating high mobility of employees
Research Methodology
The research paper is intends to highlight the importance, challenges and different ways of
motivation used in the organizations, hence more conceptual in nature. The data is collected
more from the available literature and further from the employees of a organization so as to
understand the factors which motivate the employees. These current practices were extracted in
the form of factors of motivation and used in the questionnaire so as to position the employee
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response on the same. The research seeks to illustrate the aspect of HRM function effectiveness
in motivating employees and enhancing job satisfaction. This is a descriptive research, where the
research tries to take note of the past researches and data collected to create an opinion on the
factors of HRM which motivates employees and creates job satisfaction. The secondary sources
of data have been the imperative component of the research data collection possibility, which are
journals, articles published research papers, quotes etc.
Data collection
The primary data collected by means of survey questionnaire. The number of questionnaire
floated for the research purpose were 150, out of which 106 questionnaire were received fully
filled, 100 considered for analysis. The response rate is 70%. The respondent’s belonged to
different organizations; convenience sampling method is used to collect data. Following table
represent the data collected.
Table: 1 Factors of motivation and job satisfaction %.
HRM Factors of motivation
Highly
dissatisfied/
Dissatisfied
Neutral
Highly
satisfied/
Satisfied
Training and development
12
25
63
Career advancement opportunities
26
21
53
Performance Management
19
20
61
Compensation and benefit
27
35
38
Financial rewards system
26
23
51
Recognition and appreciation
36
30
34
Work life balance
40
15
45
Chart: 1 Factors of motivation and job satisfaction %.
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Data Analysis Interpretation
As per the data collected we can make following analysis and interpretation: in the give
organizations the training and development, performance management activities score 63% and
61 % of satisfaction while remaining % of response being dissatisfied and neutral. The
compensation and benefit, financial rewards 38% and 51% of satisfaction while remaining % of
response being dissatisfied and neutral. For career advancement opportunities 26% of the
employees showed dissatisfaction and 21% stayed neutral and 53% of employees expressed
satisfaction with the career advancement policies and practices. For Recognition and
appreciation 36% of employees expressed dissatisfied 30 % stayed neutral and 34% expressed
dissatisfaction. For work-life balance 40% employees expressed dissatisfaction, 15% stayed
neutral and 45% expressed satisfaction.
Following interpretation could be drawn from the above data, the training and development,
performance management and career advancement opportunities have been fairly performing as
per the response of the employee but still have a large scope of development and change. The
compensation policies have been one important factor which effects the motivation of the
employee’s records lowest score of satisfaction and similar are the scores of recognition and
appreciation practices. It could be said that the organization should maintain a balanced approach
between financial and non financial rewards. The employees were also found low while
responding for the work-life balance.
Suggestion
1. The first thing organization need to understand is that motivation is a process which is
effective if continuous in nature and the same is to be made known to the top and middle
level management
2. The organization will have to understand and clear any thoughts otherwise could hinder
the process of motivation like; Money is only thing that can motivate employees, fear
could be used to achieve results, at the same time organizations need to understand that
increased Job satisfaction does not means increased job performance.
3. Organizations will have to design strategies in alignment with corporate goals and
objectives and the same to be conveyed to the employees and allow them to know their
contribution in achievement of the same.
4. The key to motivating employees is to have a clear understanding of employee
expectation and also understand what motivate the employees individually and collective
groups.
5. Organizations will have to involve employees in goal setting and decision making; this
will increase employee participation and give a sense of responsibility in achievement of
organizational goals and objective.
6. Organizations have to develop performance management system which effectively
rewards, recognizing and appreciating positively and consistently.
7. Organization will have to create career development and advancement opportunities to
the employees. An environment promoting team spirit, knowledge sharing and employee
engagement to allow employees identify themselves with the organization.
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8. Organization has to design and frame organizational structure and processes such as
training and development, performance management, compensation and rewards etc
which supports and facilitate work and helps creating a motivated and committed
environment in the organization.
9. Organization has to design and frame organizational structure and processes such as
training and development, performance management, compensation and rewards etc
which supports and facilitate work and helps creating a motivated and committed
environment in the organization.
Significance of the research
The research tries to put forth factors of HRM so as to be stressed upon to increase employee
motivation and job satisfaction ultimately raising commitment among the employees. Although
the link between HRM and organizational performance is being established and confirmed again
and again, but it is also known that the dynamic which bring that level of performance cannot be
fully controlled i.e. the factors which motivates and satisfies the employees change as per the
changes in the personal and professional setup. The research stresses on the motivational and
satisfying factors and factors of incremental improvement which can have long term effect on the
most important resource of the organization to create and maintain the uniqueness, and create a
sustained competitive advantage. Hence contributing to the organizational performance.
Limitation and further scope of research
The limitation of the research is further scope for the investigation on the concept of Motivation
and job satisfaction employee and its effectiveness in gaining employee commitment. As the
research is limited to the literature available and is confined to the views and ideas expressed by
the employees surveyed. There has to be further study combining both qualitative and
quantitative methods of research. As the research is in the initial stage of development could not
adapt to the quantitative research methods.
Study does not rule out the possibility of the suggested factors or more available in the
organization but has a view that even if these factors are being put in practice is by individual
initiatives or few organizations could be valuable. It is also being understood that HRM factor
flexibility may differ from one organization to another separately and combined.
Conclusion
Most of the researches have concluded that motivated employees have positive effect on the
organization productivity and performance. This makes motivation as the most important aspect
of any organizational setup and creating an environment which facilitates and supports employee
to perform optimally. Today’s business organization requires organizations to be more creative
and innovative which cannot happen without having a committed and loyal employee base
The success of every business depends upon many factors but the most important factor that
affects the business is its employees. If the employees of a business are motivated towards
organizational objective, the business can achieve its goals very easily. The job of any manager
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in an organization is to get things done through its employee and for this the manager should be
able to motivate employees. Motivation is a very important aspect of any work place, if the
employees are not motivated then there is no job satisfaction and this leads to reduced
productivity. Employee motivation strategy is different for different organizations and for
different employees, also could be one important factor allowing employees to decide whether to
stay or leave the organization. Motivation practice and theory are different and difficult subjects
touching every area of any organization.
The topic of employee motivation is not properly understood and poorly practiced by many
organizations; as a result there is increase in employees leaving the organization in search of
better places to work. Human nature is very complex and to understand the motivating factor of
every employee is a difficult task. Therefore an effective leadership and management is required
to appreciate employees. Employee motivation requires research and study of human nature and
involves a well defined approach to deal with human beings. Observations and research in this
field has proved that well motivated employees are more productive and creative. Employees
will do only if you want them to do or otherwise if you motivate them to do. Motivation is a skill
which must be learnt and practiced for any business to survive and succeed. Plus the fact that
employee motivation is directly linked with business profits makes it all the more important to
keep employees encouraged and in high spirits. Human capital is the most valuable asset of any
organization. Today’s organization also faces a big challenge of retention as well as attraction of
new talent in the organization, and motivational strategies could be one important contributors to
organizational success in long-term.
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 Agusthina Risambessy, Bambang Swasto, Armanu Thoyib, Endang Siti Astuti, 2012. The Influence of Transformational Leadership Style, Motivation, Burnout towards Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance, J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 2(9) pp 8833-8842.
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Online available at indianresearchjournals.com  Jeffrey L. Herman, Jennifer J. Deal, Jamie Lopez, William A. Gentry, Stephanie Shively, Marian Ruderman, Lori Zukin, 2011. Motivated by the Organization's Mission or Their Career? Implications for Leaders in Turbulent Times, Center for Creative Leadership, Booz|Allen|Hamilton.