Employee Motivation

  Employee motivation is a critical variable in context of human resources which boosts up the employee job satisfaction  (Kaur, 2013) providing a vast contribution in context of additions to the overall organizational productivity, performance and being a source of sustainable competitive advantage, which is a key factor to achieve organizational objectives  (Jonas, n.d.) . Since the employee motivation is a critical factor to an organizational success, special attention should be given to the employee motivation. For successful implementation of employee motivation theories have been developed providing approaches to the motivation of employees (Armstrong , 2006) . Following are the four basic categories of theory developed for employee motivation. Instrumentality Theory Content (needs) Theory Two-factor model Process/ cognitive theory ü   Expectancy theory ü   Goal Theory ü   Equity Theory (Armstrong , 2006 and Haque, et al., 2014) Maslow’s hier...

The employees of any company can be defined as the real assets to the company where they decide the degree of success that the entity is going to achieve (Mohsan, et al., 2004) .Since the employees like engine of the entity, the employees need to be given with a proper environment and stimulus to work within the organization for better execution of tasks of their jobs in order to achieve the organizational objectives   (Faisal, et al., 2017) , Superior manager’s tasks are to get the operations done by the employees. In order to perform such activities, the manager ought to motivate employees, making them satisfied and committed to take their maximum contribution for a sustainable competitive advantage (Tella, et al., 2007) According to many researchers the employee motivation can be categorized into two categories based on the fact that the employee motivation is from inside or outside factors,      Intrinsic employee motivation      Extrinsic emp...

  Employee motivation can be defined as the levels of commitment, energy and strengths that the employees put into the business in concern of executing the functions of the job (Shahzadi, 2014) . As employees are critical factor to the organizational success, it is required to take the best outcome of employees by the way of motivation resulting a sustainable competitive advantage (Jonas, n.d.) . Following factors can be identified as the importance of employee motivation. 1.      High job satisfaction of employees Job satisfaction is the concept how employees are buoyant to attend to the work and how happy they are to perform their job in the workplace. However, Job satisfaction is defined early as the assessment of employees to which extent their needs are met by the current working environment (Ihsan, 2010) . The job satisfaction can also be defined as the gladness of employees from goals achievement (Locke, 1969) . Octaviannand, et al.(2017) States th...