Employee motivation literature review 2018

Hygiene or extrinsic factors, such as salary, benefits and job security are external of motivation if not present in positiv e degrees. Uz onna (2013) ar gues that one important young, ambitious and knowledge and technology-based workers. Given the fact that these does not provide enough of an incentive as a motivator for performance.

To achieve this, the paper conducted a review of some of the key theories and empirical studies on motivation and its impact on employee productivity drawing experiences from diverse organizational settings in Nigeria and several other countries.

The purpose of this literature review is fourfold: (a) to explore the ways in which motivation has been defined by researchers, (b) to investigate how motivation develops, (c) to learn how teachers can encourage development of motivation in their students, and (d) to review best practices in assessing motivation.

In other words, individual differences have been specified by Thomas (2009) as the major obstruction for management in engaging in employee motivation in an effective manner. Lockley (2012), on the other hand, addresses the same issue focusing on cross-cultural differences between employees in particular.