Factors Motivating Employees and Resulting from Job Roles in the World of Work

WORLD OF WORK
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Factors motivating employees.....................................................................................................3
Factors resulting from job roles...................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Motivation is defined as the process or factors which drives goal oriented approach and
behaviour among individuals so that they can act and behave in certain way (Khan and Wajidi,
2019). The work experience as well as motivation plays a great role in affecting work quality and
goal accomplishment of employees. This report will discuss variety of factors which motivate
employees and leads to job specific positive or negative employee experience.
MAIN BODY
Factors motivating employees
The employee motivation depends upon several factors which must be taken into
consideration by employers. The key motivating factors for employee are as follows:
Financial benefits and rewards: This is one of the most promising element used by
organisations for motivating their workforce to extend their limits for improvement. Most of the
organisations provide additional financial benefits in the form of incentives or rewards which
inspire employees to achieve organisational goals (Kehr, Strasser and Paulus, 2018). In addition
to the financial benefits or increments in pay scale organisations also used to provide other
rewards in terms of appreciations, gift vouchers, flexibility or holiday packages. Performance
based pay scale is very influencing as it satisfies the primary goal of most of the employees who
work for meeting their financial needs.
Work culture: In addition to monetary needs work culture is another factor which affect
productivity and motivation level of workforce. When organisations have flexible and interactive
work culture then it encourages employees to work with greater efficiency. In diverse, innovative
as well as open work culture performance of individuals may vary. Every employee desire to
work in specific work environment which makes them emotionally and professionally
comfortable. Interaction with teams, acceptance to diversity and personal-professional work life
balance are critical aspect of motivation. Without this employee may not be able to deliver their
full potential.
Job security and safety: The job roles in which employee feel safe tend to have more confident
and productive employees (Soyer, Balkin and Amar, 2021). If any organisation fails to ensure
the job security, then employees are in constant threat of losing job. It has adverse impact on
their focus and performance outcomes. Similarly work policies and resources for employee
safety also affect the extent up to which individuals are ready to cooperate with the
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