Employee Motivation and It’s Influence on Performance

DUMEVI ANDREWS YAO ANDY; Peter Zhang Zhou

DUMEVI ANDREWS YAO ANDY Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing 210016, P.R China.
Peter Zhang Zhou Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing 210016, P.R China

Keywords: Employees Motivation, Employees Performance, Organizational Performance.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the relationship or the impact motivation of employees have on their overall performance in organizations and how their performance as well boost the overall output of their organizations.

The objective of this paper is to educate readers on some theories of motivation mainly the content/need theories which talks about what motivates employees with various authors and their findings, and he process theories which explains employee’s levels of motivation and need satisfaction.

The study also focuses on the types of motivation and the forms they take with further literature talking about the importance of motivation and how it influences employees’ performance and how this performance can be measured.

Finally, with all the findings and that of various authors the paper has concluded that the success and achievements of organizations depends on how well they motivate their employees and in every organization employees would like managers who motivate them in the workforce.

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Author Biography

DUMEVI ANDREWS YAO ANDY, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing 210016, P.R China.

COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

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