01.Employee Motivation
Introduction Employee motivation describes how committed an employee is to his job, how engaged he feels with the company's goals and how empowered he feels in his daily work.(Robbins P.S., 2003) Job motivation can be extrinsic or intrinsic, meaning an employee's motivating factors can come from internal or external sources. An extrinsically motivated employee wants to work well to gain praise, recognition or some financial reward from the company. For example. , a manager may give out an employee of the month award or offer a bonus to the highest performing worker in a department. In contrast, an intrinsically motivated employee is inspired to do well from a desire for acceptance, meaningful work, power, independence or some other internal factor (Tosi H.L, 2000). Many contemporary authors have also defined the concept of motivation . The psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction (Kreitner, 1995); a predisposition to behave in a purposive manner to achie...