Relationship between Employee Motivation and Job Performance

Running Head: BUSINESS RESEARCH
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction..........................................................................................................................4
Research background.........................................................................................................................4
Research importance..........................................................................................................................4
Structure description..........................................................................................................................4
Project aim and objectives.................................................................................................................5
Project questions................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Literature Review.................................................................................................................5
2.1. Employee motivation..................................................................................................................5
2.1.1. The concept of motivation...................................................................................................6
2.1.2. Maslow model for motivation..............................................................................................7
2.2. Employee performance...............................................................................................................7
2.2.1. Job performance...................................................................................................................8
2.2.2. Measuring job performance.................................................................................................8
Link between motivation and performance model of employees.........................................................11
2.3. Employee motivation and performance....................................................................................11
Chapter 3: Research Methods..............................................................................................................12
3.1. Methodology........................................................................................................................12
3.2. Sampling Method.....................................................................................................................13
3.3. Data Collection Method............................................................................................................14
3.4 Data Analysis Method...............................................................................................................15
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................15
References...........................................................................................................................................17

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Research background
The primary purpose of this research is to address the relationship between employee
motivation and job performance. Inspiration could be imperative for boosting morale among
workforces with respect to accomplish their goals. Inspired employees support the company
to make their unique image in the marketplace since inspired workforces are consistently
observing to enhance their work performance (Goleman, 2017). It is also evaluated that
inspired workforce could develop a higher level of productivity as employees enjoying their
work. In addition, it is also analyzed the satisfied workforces could support to decline the
turnover rate from the organization.
Research importance
This study could be imperative for the researcher to increase the understanding meaning and
concept of employee’s motivation. It could also support to discover the relationship between
employee motivation and job performance. Through this, the researcher will also be capable
to gain their understanding towards job performance, measurement techniques of job
performance. For the current business scenario, it is mandatory for the company to
comprehend the relationship between the employee satisfaction and job performance (Cascio,
2018). Consequently, the organization would be capable to sustain their position in the
marketplace and obtain a reliable result.
Structure description
This research includes many sections. Through this, researcher defines theoretical structure
conceptual structure by considering many authors about business failure reasons. In addition,
research design determines quantitative and qualitative research techniques to investigate the
employee motivation role in the job performance. In the last, this report demonstrates the
conclusion part that shows the summarization of research result.

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Project aim and objectives
The key purpose of this investigation is to analyse the relationship between employee’s
motivation and job performance. Following objectives will be used to meet aim of this
research:
 To discover the conceptual information with respect to the employee’s motivation and
job performance
 To explore the methods to examine the relationship between employee’s motivation
and job performance
 To discover the relationship between employee’s motivation and job performance
Project questions
Following questions will be used to complete the research in a systematic way:
 What are theoretical understanding regarding employee’s motivation and job
performance?
 How employee’s motivation and job performance could be measured?
 What are the relationship between employee’s motivation and job performance?
Chapter 2: Literature Review
2.1. Employee motivation
According to Jayaweera (2015) employee motivation is the extent of commitment, creativity
and energy that employee of company brings to their jobs. Company faces difficulty to
address the ways in order to encourage the employees but there is no matter economy is
growing or shrinking. There are certain theories regarding the employee motivation.
Employee motivation can be problematic for companies due to obtaining high expenses. The
business owner should spend time to build corporation and deal with the employees. In this
way, it can delegate the meaningful accountabilities to others.
2.1.1. The concept of motivation