Employee Motivation and Organizational Performance

Running head: EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
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1EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Article 1...........................................................................................................................2
Key concepts................................................................................................................2
Strengths and Weaknesses...........................................................................................3
Analysis of Findings....................................................................................................3
Article 2...........................................................................................................................4
Key concepts................................................................................................................4
Strengths and Weaknesses...........................................................................................5
Analysis of Findings....................................................................................................5
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................6
References............................................................................................................................7

2EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Introduction
The maintenance of a proper employee engagement within the organization assists in the
development of the overall organizational performance. The employee engagement within the
organization helps in motivating the employees of the organization in order to deliver the best of
their abilities to the organization. The employees are majorly motivated through the receipt of
financial rewards and recognition as well as the promotions that are often offered to the
employees on the basis of the performance that they deliver towards the betterment of the
organization. The following paper attempts a discussion on the motivational theories as are
discussed within the two articles that are presented within the paper.
Article 1
Key concepts
Barrick et al. (2015) in the article entitled “Collective organizational engagement:
Linking motivational antecedents, strategic implementation, and firm performance” attempted
the development of a model that assists the improvement of the employee motivation within the
organization can be increased with the help of the implementation of the motivational design of
work, the proper practices of the management of the human resources within the organization
and the transformational style of the leadership as is demonstrated by the CEO of the company.
The article discusses the fact that the organizational engagement might face an improvement due
the monitoring that is implemented by the management of the organization in terms of the
strategy that is maintained by the organization. The article further discusses on the resource
management model. The model tends to deal with the effective management of the resources of
the human resources that are present within the organization (Barrick et al. 2015). The article
argues that the concerned management of the organization is majorly affected by the