Impact of Employee Motivation on Organizational Performance: A Case Study on Tesco Plc

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Higher National Diploma in Business Management
Learner Name ID
Programme Name Higher National Diploma in Business Management
Unit Number and Title Unit 11 – Research Project
Credit Value 30 Unit Level 5
Academic Year 2020-21 Cohort April 20
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PROJECT PROPOSAL FORM
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Proposed Title An investigation into how Employee Motivation can positively impact
organizational performance: A case study on Tesco Plc
Section One: Title, aims, objectives
Research Aim: the aim of the study is to determine the impact of employee motivation upon Tesco
Plc performance.
Research Objectives 1: To understand the concept and theories related to employee motivation.
Research Objective 2: To examine different ways through which employee of retail sector can be
motivated.
Research Objective 3: To assess the relationship between employee motivation and organization’s
performance.
Research Objective 4: To recommend the best ways through which Tesco can improve its
employee performance.
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this project
The rationale for choosing this topic is to analyse the impact of employee motivation within Tesco
that influence the organization performance. This in turn recognized as a research issue because
motivating employees will be beneficial for the company to meet the defined aim (van Tuin and
et.al., 2020). That is why, through thematic analysis, scholar can determine strategies through which
the employee performance can improved.
Another reason for choosing this topic is such that scholar have their own interest to conduct the
study in order to enhance their knowledge pertaining to employee motivation. Also, this in turn
assists to raise the skills which can be beneficial for the future study.
Section Three: Precedents and sources
Theme 1: Employee motivation and theories
According to Nguyen and et.al., (2020) employee motivation is defined as the enthusiasm and
commitment that employee can brings to an organization. This helps the organization to improve the
overall performance and make employee motivated to engage for a longer term. There are different
theories related to employee motivation and also used by the companies as per their need. Like
Adam Equity theory and Maslow Hierarchy theory etc.
Theme 2: Different ways through which employee can be motivated
In the opinion of Amin and et.al., (2021) motivation strategies are designed in order to keep
employees align with organization’s goals so that they bring positive culture within an organization.
However, there are many methods through employees can be motivated like rewards in the form of
monetary and non-monetary form which assists to raise the performance. Paais and PATTIRUHU
(2020) argued that promotion is the most effective employee motivational strategy that helps to
generate the best outcomes. It is so because employees become happy in their promotion which

reflected in their performance. On the other side, developing relevant training and development
session within an organization will also help to raise the employee performance and generate the
best outcome.
Theme 3: Relationship between Employee motivation and organization’s performance
Parashakti and et.al., (2020) reflected in their study that there is a positive impact upon organization
performance when employees are motivated because workers are ready to put their efforts to meet
the organization’s goals which entails the association. Moreover, this positive working performance,
employees are able to facilitate the effective job delivery and performance. On the other side,
Kuswati (2020) critically analysed that motivation is expected to have a positive effect on quality
performance because they have a high level of motivation which shows life satisfaction. Thus, it can
be stated that decrease in motivation might affect employees in negatively that have a direct impact
over the organization performance.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Selecting topic 3 days : 4/10 -6/10
Developing aim and objectives 2 days: 7/10 – 8/10
Drafting proposal and fill ethical form 5 days: 9/10 – 13/10
Writing literature review 6 days: 14/10 – 19/10
Research methodology 8 days: 20/10 – 27/10
Developing questionnaire 3 days: 28/10 – 30/10
Data analysis 5 days: 31/10 – 4/11
Discussion and conclusion 3 days: 5/11 – 7/11
Milestone one: Selecting topic
Milestone one target date (set by tutor): 8th Oct,2021
Milestone two: Data collection
Milestone two target date (set by tutor): 4th November
Milestone three: research methodology
Milestone three target date (set by tutor): 31st Oct
Milestone Four: discussion
Milestone Four target date (set by tutor): 9th November
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