Motivation, Rewards and Compensation: Effects on Employee Engagement and Performance

This presentation discusses the impact of motivation, rewards and compensation on employee engagement and performance through two articles. The first article by De Spiegelaere, Van Gyes and Van Hootegem (2016) explores the implementation of performance-related pay on employees in different sectors. The second article by Johnson and Ng (2016) discusses the low retention of millennial employees in non-profit organizations due to low wages. Both articles contribute to understanding the factors that affect employee motivation and performance.

HRMT20024 Assessment 1
Week 7
Motivation, rewards and compensation
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References
• De Spiegelaere, S., Van Gyes, G., & Van Hootegem, G. (2016).
Innovative work behaviour and performance-related pay: rewarding
the individual or the collective?. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management, 1-20.
• Johnson, J.M., & Ng, E. S. (2016). Money talks or millennials walk: The
effect of compensation on nonprofit millennial workers sector-
switching intentions. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 36(3),
283-305.

Article 1 - Effects of rewards on
employee motivation
• Objective
The article by De Spiegelaere, Van Gyes and Van Hootegem (2016)
attempts to shed light on the implementation of the performance-
related pay on the various employees of the organization.
• Method
The composition of the article was based on the responses to a survey
questionnaire. The responses were collected from the various Flemish
employees who have been serving in five different industrial sectors
like banking, chemical industry, hospitality industry, retail industry as
well as the sector for social work.

Article 1
• Arguments
The findings of the article in discussion by De Spiegelaere, Van Gyes and
Van Hootegem (2016) reveal the fact that the concerned management of
the organizations generally tend to opt for the performance-related
payments in order to influence as well as motivate the employees of the
concerned organization.
• Conclusion
The article concludes on the fact that the impact of the performance-
related pay tends to minimise the effects of the other intrinsic motivators
that might be functional within the given business organization.

Article 2 – Effects of financial compensation on
employee engagement
• Objective
Johnson and Ng (2016) attempts a discussion on the heavy reliance of
the non-profit organization on the professional staff who draws
payments form the organization as a remuneration for the provided
services.
• Method
The authors of the concerned article collected the data from the
electronic survey that was conducted among the members and the
non-members of the 2011 Young Non-profit Professionals Network
(YNPN).

Article 2
• Argument
The findings of the article revealed that one of the major factors that
are related to the low retention of the millennial employees in the non-
profit sector is the low amount of wages that are offered to the
concerned employees of the non-profit organization.
• Conclusion
The article concludes on the note that the major reason behind the
change in the employment sector by the employees of the non-profit
organizations is the high levels of education that have been gained by
the concerned employees.

Contribution
The chosen articles contribute to the factors that are related to the
motivational impacts of the concerned employees who have been
serving at the various organisations.