How to Increase Employee Motivation

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Increasing employee motivation means looking at what drives employees to perform at their best and creating an environment where they can do so.

Here are some actionable ways to increase employee motivation in your workplace.

1. Give employees goals they can control

Having a sense of autonomy and control contributes strongly to employee motivation. It makes sense - employees won’t feel like there’s much point to performing at their best unless they feel they have ownership over what they do and contribute.

2. Improve communication

The easiest way to increase employee motivation is by having positive communication at the workplace. Not relying only on emails but by making sure they talk to their employees in person and even on a personal level, if possible. Strengthening communication between employees and their direct managers strongly affects how motivated employees feel 95% of employees say their relationship with their manager strongly impacts how they feel about their job.

3. Value individual contributions

Employees will take pride and be engaged in their work if they are aware how their efforts create an impact the organization; regardless of how big or small their contributions are.

4. Positive workplace environment

Employees' energy level is affected by their surroundings, as examples; Keeping it welcoming, upbeat, and comfortable with everything they need to do their jobs well helps employees feel valued and keeps motivation levels high. Sometimes, the employees lack motivation because their workplace does not have a positive work environment. To fix this, management could sent out surveys and get feedback from employees in order to solve the issues that they may face.

5. Recognize and reward employees


A compelling way to motivate any employee, from the new grads working entry-level positions to the highest-level leaders, is straightforward - say thank you. And don’t just say it once because it needs to be frequent and genuine for recognition and appreciation to be effective. Recognizing employees for a job well-done means showing them you notice their efforts to perform well and appreciate what they do.

 

CONCLUTION

ü  Employee motivation is very important for a successful organization, so the organization should focus on it in order to stay competitive in the market and avoid some problems such as employee high turnover that will affect the business.

ü  Highly motivated and engaged personnel are a tremendous asset to any organization. While money is an important foundational consideration, the main factors that attract and maintain efficiency within an organization include:

•Recognition

•Having interesting work to do

•Being heard by management

•Having skilled managers

•Having good communication flows

•Being provided with opportunities for advancement. Kushbhoo, S (2022)

 


List of References

Ø    Achim, I.M., Dragolea, L. and Balan, G., 2013. The importance of employee motivation to increase organizational performance. Annales universitatis apulensis: Series oeconomica, 15(2), p.685. 

Ø  Heryati R (2022)Why Employee Motivation Is Important (& How to Improve It) https://inside.6q.io/employee-motivation-important/#:~:text=Importance%20of%20Employee%20Motivation,-There%20are%20several&text=Mainly%20because%20it%20allows%20management,achieve%20higher%20levels%20of%20output

Ø  O’Donnell, K (2021) Why is Employee Motivation Important? https://blog.empuls.io/why-is-employee-motivation-important/

Comments

  1. Nadula NishadiDecember 8, 2022 at 10:52 PM

    Agreed on the content above. Moreover, motivation as defined by Robbins (1993) is the “willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need.” A need in this context is an internal state that makes certain outcomes appear attractive. An unsatisfied need creates tension that stimulates drives within the individual. To achieve organizational goal, it is important to combine the correct motivational resources with successful management and leadership in as much as motivation impacts on employee performance (Haque, Haque & Islam, 2014).

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    1. Shermila W.December 9, 2022 at 7:13 PM

      Hi Nadula Agreed what you mentioned, Unmotivated employees do not take an interest in their organization. They include in spreading 'rumors'. There is no co-operation from unmotivated employees to the Organization. Motivated employees always work towards to achieve organizational goals .

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  2. Ishara De SilvaDecember 10, 2022 at 3:40 AM

    Agreed Shermila. Moreover, Initial studies found that if an individual engaged freely in an activity (out of interest) and was subsequently offered an external reward such as money (Deci 1971) or points (Lepperet al. 1973) for engaging in that activity, then intrinsic motivation toward the activity declined. Although these initial findings were controversial because they challenged operant theories of behavioral reinforcement, a subsequent meta-analysis affirmed that when extrinsic rewards are expected and tangible, they indeed undermine intrinsic motivation for an activity (Deciet al. 1999). Extrinsic motivation is governed by reinforcement contingencies. (Deci et al., 1999).

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    1. Shermila W.December 10, 2022 at 3:48 AM

      Hi Ishara, thank you for commenting Agreed with your point, in addition to you comment, Monetary Reword and Non-monetary Reword are key points.some times Non-monetary Reword affects immediately to the employees performance but Monetary Reword also affects to the employees performance and organizations goals.

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  3. Dulakshi PereraDecember 10, 2022 at 10:35 AM

    Shermila, your blog is very attractive to read. I would like to add a few factors which increase the motivation level of employees.
    (a) job security
    (b) sympathetic help with personal problems
    (c) personal loyalty to employees
    (d) interesting work
    (e) good working conditions
    (f) tactful discipline
    (g) good wages
    (h) promotions and growth in the organization
    (i) feeling of being in on things,
    (j) full appreciation of work done.
    research suggests that as employees' income increases, money becomes less of a motivator (Kovach, 1987). Also, as employees get older, interesting work becomes more of a motivator.

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