Analyzing Employee Motivation and Performance at Debenhams: A Study

This project presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of employee motivation on performance within an organizational context, specifically using Debenhams as a case study. The introduction establishes the significance of performance management and employee motivation, highlighting their crucial role in achieving organizational goals. The project then defines the research title and provides a theoretical background on employee motivation, emphasizing rewards, incentives, and recognition. It outlines research questions and objectives focused on understanding motivation's effect on performance. The methodology section details the research approach, including philosophical underpinnings (positivism), research approach (deductive), strategy (questionnaire and survey), and data collection methods. Ethical considerations, timescale, and resource allocation are also addressed. The project includes a literature review, research design, and data analysis plan. The project employs a sample size of 50 respondents, selected through random sampling, and uses questionnaires and literature reviews for data collection, with data analyzed using pie charts and frequency tables. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and offers insights into how motivation strategies can be used to improve employee performance and achieve organizational success.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TITLE .............................................................................................................................................1
Background description from the theory.....................................................................................1
Research questions and research objectives................................................................................2
Methods description.........................................................................................................................2
Research Methodology................................................................................................................2
Participants techniques................................................................................................................4
Ethical consideration...................................................................................................................4
Timescale....................................................................................................................................5
Resources....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Performance management is always plays an essential role within the organisation as
with this ability to mange and control working efficiency and its effectiveness. The employee
and its performance is always plays an essential role within which working tendency and its
credibility both get advanced over regular period of time (Guan and Frenkel, 2018). It has direct
impact over employee motivation through which working standards of workers is getting
advanced that helps an organisation to attain its long term goals in timely frame. The research
below is based on Debenhams that is a British multinational retailer that operate in departmental
stores in UK and Denmark. The research below include title, background, research questions and
objectives, method description and research design, ethical consideration, timescale and
resources.
TITLE
To study about the impact of motivation on employee performance in an organisation.
Background description from the theory
Employee motivation can be understood as the organisational reward strategy process,
where employees are inspired by giving them rewards, incentives, recognisance, and increment
for their outstanding contribution in organisational goal attainment. It is not wrong to say that
employees are the heart of an organisation. Every organisation needs people to work which will
help an organisation to achieve its goals; hence, organisation can not compromise with employee
cooperation and cannot replace them with anything, for smooth and uninterrupted organisational
operations. Thus, every organisation in this competitive market is looking for many strategies
and tactics to make its employee go to extra mile for fulfilling organisational goals. Motivation is
emerging as the everlasting component in management for the betterment of employee
performance and an influence tool for the attainment of organisational goals. High productivity
is the supreme and long term outcomes of employee motivation. To get the best output from an
employee's performance, there is a need for motivation (Feng et. al., 2018). Motivated employees
are more productive and enthusiastic in comparison to non-motivated ones. If organisation met
employees personal, psychological, and recognition needs, employees will be satisfied and happy
and they will try to do their job more impressively. One employee's motivation will inspire other
employees at the workplace.
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Motivation is an ongoing employee development tool of management. When an
employee finds future growth and development, this can lead to a greater source of motivation.
An employee can feel the clear connection between efforts and results, therefore, it will further
motivate them to work at a higher level. It has been executed that employee's efficiency level
cannot be measured in terms of their qualification and skills, but their willingness and dignity
towards the work are the main factors. Salary can be a source of motivation, but this will be up to
a point. Therefore, motivation might be a vital source to generate a good balance between ability
and willingness for a job (Hanaysha and Majid, 2018). Hence, motivation improves the
efficiency and work commitment of an employee. A motivated workforce maintains a healthy
and positive work environment, thus more customer retention by offering services more
excitedly and positively. Besides these positive outcomes of the motivation of employees, it has
been argued that there are some negative aspects of the motivation of employees. Such as,
creating jealousy and tension in the mind of employees when one employee cannot get the same
reward as another one despite the same efforts. Another drawback found that employee focus
only on the receiving incentives, when they mark that level of satisfaction, they stopped to push
more to get the higher level.
Research questions and research objectives
To study about the impact of motivation on employee performance in an organisation. A
case study on Debenhams.
Objectives:
 To study the concept of employee motivation on performance management.
 To assess different strategies that is used by an organisation to motivate its employee.
 To analyse the significant impact of motivation on performance management of
employee within an organisation.
Methods description
Research Methodology
It is a procedure that is used in order to advance its working efficiency as with this
adequate tools and techniques is used to examine various sources through which profitable
ending is resulted in systematic manner. It is also be related to selection, processing,
identification and analysis as with this suitable information is processed as per requirement. It
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assist researcher to advance specified knowledge and information in concern of specific ideas
and knowledge through which modified ending is resulted in timely constrained (Jensen, 2018).
For this working efficiency and sustainability is advanced under which productivity and
performance enhancement is processed with certain adequateness. It is furthermore explained
briefly with support of research onion and it is as explained below as:
Figure 1: Research Onion, 2020.
Research philosophies- It is a basis under which researcher pays suitable control about to
manage the collected, gathered, used and analyzed data by which adequate information is
collected on better manner. It also dependent on epistemology which is relevance to clear and
sustained analysis about suitable topic and other is doxology that assist to advance certain level
of belief among working and its advancement. In order to process this research, positivism
philosophy of research is used by researcher under which sustained data is collected with
adequateness. In this gathering and collection of data is programmed with relation to better
clarity so that objectives is completed in clear mode.
Research approach- It is a method that is used by researcher to collect suitable
information as with this suitable knowledge and information is collected in direct manner (De
Sousa Sabbagha, Ledimo and Martins, 2018). In this relevant data is controlled that assist to
segmentation of information as per necessity which is also be supported by qualitative,
quantitative and mixed approach that is also be dependent over deductive, inductive and
abductive approach. In relation to suitable research deductive approach is used as it offer
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sufficient support about numerical abilities under which standardized ending is resultant in
ordinate basis.
Research strategy- It is a strategy that is used by researcher to make adequate usage
different factors such as monitoring, planning, execution, implementation and controlling. In this
suitable profit is achieved that is dependent of profitable ending within which research objective
and target is accomplish in better manner. It basically consist of sufficiency guidance that make
easy for researcher to collect and conduct interview, qualitative interview, quantitative survey
and case study. In relation to this study, researcher make usage of questionnaire and survey
strategy so as to achieve timely based data in collective mode.
Choices of method- It is a basis that is dependent on different method through which
certain information is collected which is more reliable and authentic. In this sufficiency to
achieve profitable outcome is organized in better way (Kauppila, 2018).
Data collection and analysis- It is an analysis that is usually used to gather both primary
as well as secondary data and in this for primary data collection questionnaire is designed and for
secondary data collection literature review is conducted.
Sample size- It is a method through which integrated outcome is achieved by researcher
that also offer better response of all the selected and targeted audience. In this researcher target
the sample size of 50 respondents and it is selected with support of random sampling method.
Analysis of data- It is a basis that is used to analyze brief information which is collected
from questionnaire and literature review that is designed with support of pie chart and frequency
table.
Participants techniques
The employee performance is always be required and major aspect for all the
organisation as with this only ability to advance working capabilities and its efficiency get
advanced on regular basis. In this motivation also be a basis within which ability of a business to
advance its performance credibility is advanced in moderate manner (PAAIS and PATTIRUHU,
2020). In this 50 sample size is selected as it assist to attain suitable information which is more
balanced and vital about to gain adequate information of topic.
Ethical consideration
It is related to ethical practices that is required to be follow by researcher and with this
working and collection of required data is processed with perfection. In this information also get
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collected with support of questionnaire as with this needed and significant outcome is collected
that assist to achieve standardized ending in timely constrained. In this researcher make ensure to
collect personalised data and that is also be not used for other purposes as well. The data must be
confidential and in this willingness to complete research on timely constrained also improvised
with perfection.
Timescale
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Resources
It is an aspect that is required to accomplish standardised outcome within specified period
of instance as with this there is adequate control towards working efficiency and its
accomplishment (Setiyani and et. al., 2019). Researcher make supportive usage of different
functions through which ability to achieve standardised result is modified and in this there is
need of various resources such as machinery, financial resources, physical equipments,
technological advancement and human workforce. In this capability of researcher to gather and
collect suitable information is enhanced that assist long term sustainability in ordinate manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
De Sousa Sabbagha, M., Ledimo, O. and Martins, N., 2018. Predicting staff retention from
employee motivation and job satisfaction. Journal of Psychology in Africa. 28(2).
pp.136-140.
Feng, J., et.al., 2018. Just the right amount of ethics inspires creativity: A cross-level
investigation of ethical leadership, intrinsic motivation, and employee creativity.
Journal of Business Ethics. 153(3). pp.645-658.
Guan, X. and Frenkel, S., 2018. How HR practice, work engagement and job crafting influence
employee performance. Chinese Management Studies.
Hanaysha, J.R. and Majid, M., 2018. Employee motivation and its role in improving the
productivity and organizational commitment at higher education institutions. Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Business. 6(1), pp.17-28.
Jensen, J.D., 2018. Employee motivation: A leadership imperative. International Journal of
Business Administration. 9(2). pp.93-98.
Kauppila, O.P., 2018. How does it feel and how does it look? The role of employee motivation
in organizational learning type. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 39(8). pp.941-955.
PAAIS, M. and PATTIRUHU, J.R., 2020. Effect of motivation, leadership, and organizational
culture on satisfaction and employee performance. The Journal of Asian Finance,
Economics and Business (JAFEB). 7(8). pp.577-588.
Setiyani, A. and et. al., 2019. The Effect of Work Environment on Flexible Working Hours,
Employee Engagement and Employee Motivation. International Review of Management
and Marketing. 9(3). p.112.z
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