Project on Employee Motivation and Productivity in Organizations

This project synopsis explores the relationship between employee motivation and productivity within an organization. The research aims to identify factors that motivate employees, examine the connection between motivation and productivity, and recommend techniques to enhance employee engagement. The project will use primary data collection through questionnaires, along with secondary sources like governmental statistics and company reports. Key secondary sources include academic articles focusing on HRM practices, work environment, and employee motivation. The project's scope involves identifying motivation factors, examining the relationship between employees and productivity, and recommending motivation techniques. The project timeline spans from November to April, covering activities like scope identification, literature review, data collection, analysis, and write-up. Strategic contexts include trust, reward systems, recognition, and career advancement. The project will endeavor to meet all module requirements, with potential changes agreed upon with module staff as needed. The synopsis provides a starting point for the STO302 work.

Project Synopsis Form (Max. 2 sides)
Researcher Name:
1- Project Plan
Proposed project title: Employee motivation and productivity
Purpose of research
The main purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between employee
motivation and productivity within an organization. It is stated that motivation is one kind of
force that helps in energizing people in order to achieve proper goals as well as objectives of
the organization. It is argued that unless the workers of the organization are motivated for
making proper use of their potentials they are not able to achieve proper performance and
as a result the productivity of the organization get affected. In order to motivate the
employees, it is quite important to meet the needs as well as demands of the employees.
Thus, it is identified that satisfaction of the employees generally helps in representing one of
the indispensable dimension for the entire motivational processes which further helps in
enhancing the productivity of the organization.
The project will be helpful in finding out the relationship between motivation as well
as productivity of the organization for reflecting the importance of motivation within an
organization. The project also elaborates techniques as well as ways that are quite helpful
for the organizations to motivate its employees for enhancing the productivity.
Specific objectives
The objectives of the project are as follows:
 To identify factors that helps in motivating employees
 To examine the relationship that exists between productivity and motivation
 To recommend techniques as well as ways that help organizations to motivate its
employees
Proposed methods
The data for the project is collected through primary data collection method. In order
to collect data proper questionnaire survey is conducted that helps in reflecting the
significance of motivation within an organization for enhancing productivity. In addition to
this, it is identified that various governmental statistics as well as company reports are also
utilized for getting accurate information on employee motivation and productivity.
Key secondary sources: The project also utilizes number of key secondary sources that
include:
 Dar, A.T., Bashir, M., Ghazanfar, F. and Abrar, M., 2014. Mediating role of employee
motivation in relationship to post-selection HRM practices and organizational
performance. International Review of Management and Marketing, 4(3), p.224.
 Dobre, O.I., 2013. Employee motivation and organizational performance. Review of
Applied Socio-Economic Research, 5(1), pp.53-60.
 Jayaweera, T., 2015. Impact of work environmental factors on job performance,
mediating role of work motivation: A study of hotel sector in England. International
journal of business and management, 10(3), p.271.
 Muogbo, U.S., 2013. The impact of employee motivation on organisational
performance (a study of some selected firms in anambra state nigeria). The
international journal of engineering and science, 2(7), pp.70-80.

 Nie, Y., Chua, B.L., Yeung, A.S., Ryan, R.M. and Chan, W.Y., 2015. The importance
of autonomy support and the mediating role of work motivation for well‐being: Testing
self‐determination theory in a Chinese work organisation. International Journal of
Psychology, 50(4), pp.245-255.
 Parker, S.K., 2014. Beyond motivation: Job and work design for development, health,
ambidexterity, and more. Annual review of psychology, 65, pp.661-691.
 Valencia, C., 2014. Motivation and Productivity in the Workplace. The Myriad.
Project scope / delimitations (e.g. geographical or sectoral scope) plus any problems,
limitations or ethical issues foreseen:
The scope of the project includes:
 Identification of factors that assists in the motivation of the employees
 Examining relationship between employees and productivity
 Recommending techniques that helps in motivating employees
 To solve ethical problems associated with the workers of the organization
Outline time plan
Activities Timeframe
Novembe
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December January February March April
Identifying
scope of
the project
Collecting
journals
Review of
secondary
sources
Data
collection
Data
Analysis
Write-up
2 - Strategic Analysis Report
What will be the strategic context of your project?
The strategic contexts of the project are as follows:
Trust: The managers of the organization must trust their staff properly as trust is
considered as one of the significant strategy of motivation that helps in enhancing
productivity.
Reward System: Proper reward facility must be provided within an organization for
motivating the employees.
Recognition: It is quite important to let the employees to do their job by recognizing
efforts for achieving motivation
Career advancement: Employees must be provided with proper career
advancement by making them sure that there are opportunities for advancing their positions.

I WILL ENDEVOUR TO UNDERTAKE THE ABOVE SCHEME OF STUDY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
REQUIREMENTS OF THE MODULE. Note: Changes to your project design may be agreed with
Module Staff as your project develops
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