MGT502 Business Communication

Running head: COMMUNICATION AND MOTIVATION
Communication and motivation
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Introduction
In the current business scenario, communication between the internal stakeholders helps
in gaining workplace motivation for the employees. This is due to the reason that effective
communication process helps the employees to share their challenges and issues and convey
them to upper level management and vice versa. However, this should also be noted that in order
to have effective process of communication in the workplace, it is important to have innovative
communication tools. These tools will have different set of utilities and can help in enhancing the
workplace motivation.
In this essay, 10 articles will be selected, which will discuss about the role of the
innovative communication tool in enhancing the workplace motivation. These 10 articles will be
chosen based on which the further research will be done in the following assignments.
Fatimah, H. E. R. M. I. N., Dharmawan, A. H., Sunarti, E. U. I. S., & Affandi, M. J. (2015).
The influence of communication and motivation factors on employee engagement in the
generation X and Y. International Journal of Information Technology and Business
Management, 38(1), 22-30.
According to Fatimah et al., (2015), communication process and motivation of the
employees is interrelated due to the reason that the more effective will be the process of
communication, the more will be the provision for them to engage with other stakeholders. This
will ensure that employee issues will be mitigated. This article is selected due to the reason that
before analyzing about the role of the communication tool in boosting the workplace motivation,
it is important to have the understanding about the relationship between the communication
process and employee motivation. This article analyzed about this variable and will be useful in

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further discussing about the relationship between the communication and employee motivation.
In addition, this article also discussed about how the effective process of communication will
help in engaging the employees in their workplace.
Korzynski, P. (2013). EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION IN NEW WORKING
ENVIRONMENT. International journal of academic research, 5(5).
On the other hand, it is stated by Korzynski (2013) that effective communication not only
enhance the level of motivation of the employees by means of sharing their views and feedbacks
but also, it helps in reducing the distance between the upper level and lower level stakeholders.
This is due to the reason that effective communication process will also enable the upper level
managers in sharing and conveying their vision to the employees. This article is useful for further
research due to the reason that there are number of instances being identified where upper level
managers are facing the difficulties in conveying their vision and approach to the employees and
thus cannot be able to engage them in their workplace. Therefore, with the help of this article,
different approaches of communication process in motivating the employees can be critically
analyzed. This information will also be beneficial in gaining the knowledge required in analyzing
the role of communication tools in motivating the employees.
Chaiprasurt, C., & Esichaikul, V. (2013). Enhancing motivation in online courses with
mobile communication tool support: A comparative study. The International Review of
Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(3), 377-401.
Chairprasurt and Esichaikul (2013) stated that one of the major and innovative
communication tools in the recent time is the mobile technologies. This is due to the reason that
mobile technologies with the help of wireless and internet technologies are overcoming the