Employee Motivation and Engagement Strategies for Montagno Logistics

This report focuses on employee engagement and motivation strategies, specifically within the context of Montagno Logistics, a logistics firm in Malta. It explores crucial factors that enhance employee motivation and engagement, vital for boosting productivity and reducing employee turnover. The report delves into the significance of employee engagement, highlighting key elements such as work environment, and company culture. It also examines both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, along with their impact on employee performance and retention. Furthermore, the report provides practical strategies for HR departments and leaders to foster a positive work environment, including team collaboration, clear communication, and employee recognition. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of employee engagement and motivation for the overall success of the organization, offering valuable insights for managers and leaders within Montagno Logistics and similar businesses.

Employee Engagement And
Motivation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
What are the most important factors which improve employee motivation and engagement?. .1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
An organization grows to achieve their goal and objectives but there is an equal share of
employees with respect to the managers and leaders. Although leaders and managers are the
source of their energy they guide the employees in a direction to achieve the certain tasks. The
employees put their efforts in order to attain the aim and organization managers need to motivate
them and also increase employee engagement to enhance their productivity that make them
happy. In this report, the employee engagement and motivation skills would be covered in order
to manage Montagno Logistics which is a logistics firm in Malta (Abraham, 2012).
MAIN BODY
What are the most important factors which improve employee motivation and engagement?
As being an HR in Montagno Logistics it is one of the prime responsibility to encourage
employees who are putting their efforts to enhance the companies operations in order to earn
profit. The organization is divided into three levels that is the top level, middle level and the
lower level. Top level the leaders like CEO, at middle level the managers holds place and the
lower level is for the employees who works on the ground level because of them the execution of
the task successfully done. The top level of the organization should prepare such policies that
gives a relaxation to the employees on any level. There are so many operations that are
associated with an organization in order to achieve the target and for that there are so many
workers who worked for long hours in a day. For that the employees expect some juicy words
from there managers and leaders that can increase their confidence and fill them with a zeal and
zest which is the most needed to retain their employees for a long time. Motivation and
engagement of the employees matters for a Montagno Logistics in order to increase the
productivity of the firm (Breevaart, Bakker and Hetland, 2014).
Employee engagement
Employee engagement is necessary for the firm cause that is not only for their happiness
and satisfaction rather that will also aid to bottom line benefits that is to increase the fruitfulness
and decrease the employee turnover. The successful employment includes such key factors :
work, environment, people and culture. If the work is challenging then the employee can find the
opportunities to explore more and they have something new to learn. For an example, if
Montagno Logistics needs to establish a new warehouse then they can give a responsibility to
person who can derive all the required task and at that time this is the chance to prove their
efficiency among others. They can explore more and this is the way in which they can grab the
opportunities to take a step forward in their career. People would feel happy to drive all the
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required activities and that also generates a positive environment that is good for the productivity
and creativity. The employees can produce the better results which can generate the higher
profits. This will aid to create a finest place to work in a ethical cultured premises where great
minds strive themselves in order to learn with their self experiences and learning and also
increases social engagement (Mone and London, 2018).
Employee engagement is crucial whether it happens on a personal or team level, team
leaders or HR plays a vital role in that through adopting three patterns such as :
 They can encourage together collaboration.
 Team should be motivated towards a direction.
 It can encourage the commitment to the team and its objectives.
One should need to work on the employees level to know that how they work and what is the
thing which can drive in a better manner to attain the goal. It is necessary to reach at their level
to keep them engage in certain task. There are such preferences that can shape employee
engagement :
 Ensure a logical approach approach to work in cooperation.
 One need to set clear Return on Investment.
 They should use open communication channels to maintain the collaboration among the
employees.
 One should execute the activities clearly with details.
 The leaders should determine a clear vision that should goes beyond the project and to
change the bigger picture.
Employee motivation
Motivation is a psychology that derives behaviour of people in a certain direction. It
boosts up the energy and enthusiasm in the employee to work more and take a step ahead. When
an employee is giving their life to an organization then they just wanted to get some optimistic
thought in return that can give them a hope to do something new in their life and at the same time
they decide to take an action that they wanted to stay for a long life. There are two kinds of
motivation one of them is extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation (Paharia, 2013).
Extrinsic motivation
extrinsic motivations are external factors that causes an employee to act towards the
fulfilment of a work or goal and these motivations usually can be a punishments and rewards.
Sometimes a punishment is good because the employee avoids the acts which can be penalized
so there is a less chances to commit any mistakes whereas reward will encourage the employees.
Intrinsic motivation
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The intrinsic motivation comes from the employees it generates when the employee's
work itself motivate them. They may find the work satisfied, fulfilling, enjoyable. It is more
effective than extrinsic motivation because it comes from the employees rather being imposed
on them (Shuck and Herd, 2012).
Significance of employee motivation
If the staff is getting motivated from the authorities then they can encourage the
productivity of the the organization. There are some importance of the motivation such as :
 Employee motivation aid to retain the best employee for the business.
 When the employee is stressed then they would not feel good to work then they need to
motivated so that they can work with a spirit.
When the employees continue work for Montagno Logistics then they can feel some stress or
tired without getting appreciation then they can refuse to work with the organization. But
keeping motivate the employees is a much better way to reduce the turnover, because motivation
builds up energy. There are several ways to motivate them like the human resource department
can organize a party for the employees where they can enjoy after doing a loads of hard work
and they can feel relax. The HR manager can also send them approve their leaves to for a trip
where they can spend time with family. If the human resource section offers them a party then
they can give them some appreciation certificate to each and every employee without any
discrimination that will make them happy. It will double their keenness towards the work and
they will really admire the action for their care. They just need a firm which care for them and
for that the company can give them a reward. The reward can be in any form as the firm can give
some cash reward for their work and they would feel happy (Soane and Truss, 2012).
Appreciation is the most effective way to motivate employees that can be done as:
 It is good to give some example of the best employees so that the others can get motivate
to perform as much as better they can cause if they can get inspired by others they can put
their more efforts to improve their performance.
 If the leaders and managers are polite then the employees will always be there to work
for them. One should use polite language they can say 'thank you' and 'please' although
these are small words but very effective to develop a well cultured environment to work.
 The authorities can build up a bond with employees to be in their comfortable zone it is
necessary cause until or unless they are not familiar or polite with the employees the
workers would not comfortable with them to share their problems what are they facing at
working place. If they would not be able to share their issues that will also reduce their
productivity and that is not good for the organization.
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 Whenever there is an occasion for the employee then the managers should participate in
that and present a gift to them cause it will establish a strong bond between the
employees and organization (He, Zhu and Zheng, 2014).
CONCLUSION
The above report is about the employee engagement and motivation that is essential to
make a company more productivity. It encourages the performance of the employees that is
fruitful for the organization. Montagno Logistics is one of the leading company in logistics
industry of Malta that offers various kinds of logistic services and the report is based on their
employees why they wanted to get motivation and employee engagement.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Mone, E.M. and London, M., 2018. Employee engagement through effective performance
management: A practical guide for managers. Routledge.
Paharia, R., 2013. Loyalty 3.0: How to revolutionize customer and employee engagement with
big data and gamification. McGraw Hill Professional.
Shuck, B. and Herd, A.M., 2012. Employee engagement and leadership: Exploring the
convergence of two frameworks and implications for leadership development in HRD.
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Soane, E., Truss, C., Alfes, K., and et. al., 2012. Development and application of a new measure
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He, H., Zhu, W. and Zheng, X., 2014. Procedural justice and employee engagement: Roles of
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