Motivation among employees in Multinational Corporation

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Motivation among employees in Multinational Corporation
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1..........................................................................................................................................3
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Background of the study........................................................................................................3
1.2 Problem identification............................................................................................................3
1.3 Purpose...................................................................................................................................4
1.4 Research Question..................................................................................................................4
1.5 Theoretical Limitations..........................................................................................................4
Chapter 2..........................................................................................................................................5
2.0 Literature Review......................................................................................................................5
2.1 Work Motivation....................................................................................................................5
2.2 Motivational theories.............................................................................................................5
2.2.1 Abraham Harold Maslow................................................................................................5
2.2.2 Frederick Herzberg..........................................................................................................6
2.2.3 Paul Lawrence.................................................................................................................6
2.3 Motivation concepts...............................................................................................................7
2.3.1 Intrinsic Motivation.........................................................................................................7
2.3.2 Extrinsic Motivation........................................................................................................7
2.4 Motivational factors...............................................................................................................8
2.4.1 Creative and challenging work........................................................................................8
2.4.2 High salary......................................................................................................................8
2.4.3 Individual growth and development................................................................................8
2.4.4 Good relationship with supervisor and colleagues..........................................................9
2.5 Multinational Corporations....................................................................................................9
2.6 Summary and discussion of literature review........................................................................9
2.7 Propositions............................................................................................................................9
Chapter 3........................................................................................................................................11
3.0 Research Methodology............................................................................................................11
3.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................11

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3.2 Research Philosophy............................................................................................................11
3.3 Research Approach..............................................................................................................11
3.4 Choice of theory...................................................................................................................12
3.5 Choice of methodology........................................................................................................12
3.6 Data Analysis and Data Collection methods........................................................................12
3.7 Limitation of the study.........................................................................................................12
Chapter 4........................................................................................................................................13
4.0 Data Analysis...........................................................................................................................13
4.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................13
4.2 Descriptive Statistics............................................................................................................13
4.3 Correlation analysis..............................................................................................................14
4.4 Reliability analysis...............................................................................................................14
4.5 ANOVA...............................................................................................................................14
Chapter 5........................................................................................................................................16
5.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................16
5.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................16
Reference.......................................................................................................................................17

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Chapter 1
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
The main purpose of the dissertation work is to talk about individuals or employees who
are working in Multinational Corporation and known their experiences and attitudes towards
what they think about motivation (Song 2014). Motivation is one of the essential topics in
organizational science. Nowadays, employee motivation is becoming a major concern for
business enterprise as well as the managers as motivation became the deciding factor in judging
the work performance and determining success of failure of any company. With rapid growth
and development, the world is changing and being more favourable for the international
business. There is shift in global economy that means more business enterprise is showing
interest to go international in the near future. It is the responsibility of the managers to have
proper knowledge on what motivate employees at work. The manager should know about what
are the factors that widely influences the level of motivation and then what steps need to be taken
where the managers can enhance motivating factor and keep their employees satisfied within
their stay at that workplace (Minbaeva et al. 2014).
1.2 Problem identification
Individuals or employees at work can be motivated by several attributes and this study
elaborates about the factors that influence motivation (Ansari, Reinecke and Spaan 2014). With
the emergence of globalization, it is noted that it had significant impact on the companies and
this is the reason why Multinational Corporation are gaining competitive advantage to national
companies as there is more opportunities present while working for MNCs. This particular
dissertation study makes use of qualitative method and research had been done on work
motivation that takes into account concept about motivational theories and factors. Therefore, the
qualitative research is essential in the field of business as well as management.
Without proper motivation at work, it becomes difficult to manage the employees who do
not have willingness to perform well (Froese, Kim and Eng 2016). The managers should
extrinsically motivate employees by using strategies such as paying high and giving rewards to
the employees so that they work. However, employees who are intrinsically motivated actually
result in giving best productivity work hard to become asset to the company. The other variables
such as demographic and personality in actual proves to have vital impact on work motivation.
There is a need to know what motivates employees to perform well and this dissertation
highlights the factors where it is properly understood in later chapter about the motivating factors
(Al Ariss, Cascio and Paauwe 2014).