Business Research - Literature Review

Running head: BUSINESS RESEARCH - LITERATURE REVIEW
IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
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Introduction
The performance of a business organization is known to have been dependent on a
plethora of factors that are presented within the business environment of a given area. The
employees of the organization are known to be one of the major stakeholders that affect the
overall performance of the company in the given markets. According to Lee and Raschke (2016),
the performance of the employees of the organization helps in the overall development of the
organizational performance in the given markets. However, the performance of the employees is
highly affected by the motivation that they receive on the part of the employees of the
organization. Osabiya (2015) counter that the proper amount of the motivation as is received by
the organization is known to have been affecting the overall performance of the organization in
the international markets wherein the concerned organization has been operational. The
following paper attempts a review on the existent literature on the various impacts of the proper
employee motivation on the performance of the organization.
Methods
The literature that is being reviewed for the overall development of the research paper
was collected through the extensive and time-consuming searches that are related to the chosen
topics. The searches were based on the major keywords that were presented within the chosen
topic. The major keywords that were used in the searches for the articles in this case are
“employee motivation”, “organizational performance”, “impact of employee motivation”,
“employee performance”, “employee motivational theories” and “impact of employee
performance on the organizational performance”. These keywords helped in the retrieval of the
proper peer-reviewed journals that would help in the overall development of the research paper
that is to composed.

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The major databases refer to the library database of La Trobe University, the academic
database of Google Scholar as well as the other online journal databases such as EBSCO
databases, ProQuest databases, Emerald Insight databases and other such databases. These
databases helped in the searches and the retrieval of the proper peer-reviewed journal articles that
were used in the given literature review.
The researches within the given databases resulted in the collection of over 30 journal
articles against the keywords that were used for the proper conduction of the proper literature
review on the chosen topic as well. The selected articles that were used for the overall
composition of the literature review. The articles were selected on the basis of the criteria that
had been proposed by Sarah Blakeslee in the CRAAP test model. The articles were selected on
the basis of the currency of the article, the relevance of the article, the authority and the accuracy
of the article as well as the purpose of the composition of the article in discussion. The major
criteria for the inclusion and the exclusion of the articles refer to the conditions of the currency
of the article and the relevance of the materials discussed within the article in regards to the
chosen topic for the literature review.
Results
The research paper would be composed on the basis of 12 articles that had been selected
after browsing through the databases that have been mentioned in the above section. The
employees of the organization are known to have been affecting the overall performances of the
company. The employee performance within the given organization refer to the overall
performances as have been demonstrated by the employees of the organization in terms of the
issues that are faced by the organization. According to Kontoghiorghes (2016), the majority of
the issues that are presented within the given organization refer to the proper motivation to get