Saturday, May 7, 2022

Conclusion on Employee Motivation and Engagement

Employee engagement is a source of worry for leaders and managers throughout the world, since it is acknowledged as a critical factor in determining organizational performance, creativity, and competitiveness. Employee engagement has its origins in academic research, while it was generally seen as a practical consulting issue until the 1990s (Bedarkar et al., 2013). 


Some of the Employee Engagement Models apart from the ones discussed in my previous blog posts are;

·        The Zinger Model

·        The Deloitte Model

·        The JD-R Model (Job Demands-Resources Theory)

·        The Gallup Employee Engagement model

·        Schmidt Model of Employee Engagement

·        International Survey Research Approach Model


 In today's business environment, as it is true with high job losses due to layoffs and retrenchment in order to create a lean organization, it is also important for organizations to stop losing performing employees due to declining job satisfaction and a lack of motivation to stay with the company for a long time. Employees who are motivated and fulfilled are more dedicated to the organization's goals; in turn, enterprises must demonstrate a comparable commitment to employee goals. HR's duty here is to work consistently to align employee aspirations with the organization's aims. This goal can be met by creating a motivating work environment that encourages and addresses employee growth and development (Varma, 2018).


Some of the Employee Motivation Theories apart from the ones discussed in my previous blog posts are;

·        Vroom's expectancy theory

·        Adams' equity theory

·        Skinner's reinforcement theory

·        McClelland’s Need Theory

·        Equity Theory

·        Porter and Lawler’s Extension


The below video clip briefly talks about Employee Engagement and Motivation.


Video 05: Employee Engagement and Motivation


Source: (Greggu, 2019)


“Turned on people figure out how to beat the competition. Turned off people only complain about being beaten by the competition”

-Ben Simonton, President - Simonton Associates & Leadership Science TV, United States of America. 


References

Bedarkar, M. and Pandita, D. (2013). A study on the drivers of employee engagement impacting employee performance. [Online]. Available at https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.174. Accessed on 7th May 2022.

Greggu (2019) Employee Engagement and Motivation. [Online]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80xC8EFxco&t=151s. Accessed on 7th May 2022.

Varma, C. (2018). IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION & JOB SATISFACTION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE. [Online]. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329698335_IMPORTANCE_OF_EMPLOYEE_MOTIVATION_JOB_SATISFACTION_FOR_ORGANIZATIONAL_PERFORMANCE. Accessed on 7th May 2022.



5 comments:

  1. Hi Gimhanai, I fully agreed with you. There is a positive relationship between employee motivation and performance. The higher employee motivation will add to the employee’s performance. (Trivellas, 2013)

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    1. Hi Ramesh. Thankyou for your comment. High Employee Engagement and Motivation leads to high performance in the organization. To achieve and improve performance, organizations need active employee engagement by encouraging motivation (Riyanto et al., 2011).

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  2. Hi Gimhani, Agreed with you. 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 noteworthy 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 (Varma, 2017).

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    1. Hi Dinith. Agreed. The human relations approach to management was pioneered by the Hawthorne Studies, in which managers' major focus is on their employees' needs and motivation (Bedeian, 1993).

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  3. Hi Gimhani, I agree with the post. Since of late across all corporate and construction sectors Employee Motivation has become a widely practiced exercise. What moves the employees from weariness to attention is the basic idea of motivation which is derived from a Latin word “movere” which means “to move” (Mohsen et al., 2004).

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Conclusion on Employee Motivation and Engagement

Employee engagement is a source of worry for leaders and managers throug hout the world, since it is acknowledged as a critical factor in d...