Motivational Theories and Employee Productivity: A Business Study

This report delves into the critical role of motivation in enhancing employee productivity within business organizations. It begins with an abstract highlighting the responsibilities of managers, including marketing and financial aspects, and the importance of understanding business processes. The report then introduces the research topic, focusing on the impact of motivational theories on employee efficiency, using the Hilton Hotel as a case study. It explores various motivational theories, such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory, and their application in the workplace. The research aims to evaluate the role of motivation, determine the different motivational theories used, and define their importance for employees. The literature review provides an in-depth analysis of key motivational theories, including Vroom's expectancy theory and goal-setting theory, and their influence on employee behavior and organizational performance. The report outlines the research methodology, including the research process, approach, strategy, and instruments used. It also presents findings, discusses data interpretation, and concludes with recommendations and implications for further research. The study emphasizes the significance of motivation in achieving high productivity and profitability, highlighting both intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors.

Business Management

ABSTRACT
The respective research includes the manager are assigned the primary responsibility of
handling administrative duties for an organisation as a marketing manager. A business will
expect them to help with its marketing campaign. In figure out ways where the organisation can
cut expenses, a corporation will even would like they to do a buying process. In order to operate
a company, there must be an astute knowledge of the financial, advertising and customs
processes needed. The rivalry for roles in business administration can be intense. A certificate in
corporate management, accounting or advertising must be earned if a business leadership
position would ultimately be sought. The duty and influence of managers and executives is to
look at a project and improve decision. From a single employee in a company to thousands of
employees of corporations of various countries, the management scale can be everything. The
strategy is established in larger organisations by the management board and instead followed out
along with the CEO or chief operating officer.

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................3
Research Questions..........................................................................................................................5
Research Aims and Objectives........................................................................................................5
Research Aim.........................................................................................................................5
Research Objectives...............................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Literature review............................................................................................................6
Chapter 3: Research Methodology.................................................................................................11
Research process..................................................................................................................11
Research approach................................................................................................................11
Research strategy..................................................................................................................12
Research methodology.........................................................................................................12
Research instruments/tools...................................................................................................12
Sampling...............................................................................................................................13
Ethical implications..............................................................................................................13
Chapter 4: Findings (data presentation).........................................................................................15
Chapter 5: Discussion (data interpretation)...................................................................................19
Chapter 6: Conclusion, recommendations and implications for further research..........................24
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................25

Title: “Role of motivational theories in improving employee productivity within business
organization.”
Chapter 1: Introduction
Background to Research Topic
A firm's worker plays a very important role in his / her success, so it is important that the
organization consistently motivates its employees. Every organization, if small, medium or large,
every time helps to move individuals toward certain their wanted targets and objective (Ganta,
2014). There's several role-playing hypotheses in regard to ideologies, like Maslow's Hierarchy
of Requirements, McClelland's Desire Principle, Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Principle, etc.,
Motivating Theory may usually be divided into two components and interpreted based on
existence. It makes us consider the desires of employees in the sense of the business so that the
organization can make them satisfied by meeting them. There could be several explanations in a
corporation why staff members must be inspired since it has a deep association with institution’s
expansion. Mostly with support of inspired employees company, though, may hold them in a
precarious position to attain objectives and targets in a projected amount of time. Motivational
thinking thus makes workers reach their boundaries so as to achieve high production rates. High
profitability is one of an organisation’s key important targets. Motivation and motivational tool
that has the ability to improve workplace morale and efficiency, may also lead to improved
profitability when managers allow good use of everything. This work provides existing
motivational factors and results from scientific investigation to explain how job satisfaction
produces better growth in companies. Human motivation for employment can be classified into
two groups: intrinsic motivation as well as motivation for extrinsic jobs. Intrinsic motivation
relates to the willingness of individuals to create an endeavour out of the pleasure and
appreciation of the job itself. Extrinsic drive implies the desire to make an attempt to gain any
effects which are different from the job itself, such as compensation or acknowledgment.
Background to Research Organization
Hilton Hotel is among the leading hospitality companies that has been offering its
outstanding services and amenities nationwide ever since creation during the year about 1919.
The developer of the brand, Conrad Hilton, bought the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, making
this was his first Hilton Hotel. For a global growth business, there are currently 586 Hilton
restaurants and Property with about 215,623 accommodations in 85 countries. As per Fortune

Magazine, business was listed numbers one in their Best 100 Businesses to Function for Fortune
List and this was focused on the workplace poll cantered on their happiness. Almost all of their
hotel chains are situated in the city to encourage ever more consumers (Barrick and et.al., 2015).
As to if traveling for business reasons or traveling for their social activities, the firm is known for
its excellent facilities to the tourists. This all began as Conrad Hilton bought his first resort in
1919. They have guided the market since then with their modern approach to goods, facilities
and operation. Hilton Hotels & Resorts stands proudly as either the chic, forward looking luxury
hospitality pioneer. Take a peek at a few of their primary, guest-focused top picks all along
journey.
Research Rationale
The key purpose behind this study is to also improve the expertise and information about the
particular subject and field of the study. Mainly, it is focused on a study of the impact of theories
of motivation in enhancing the efficiency of workers at work. Researchers can analyse the real
effect of the specific subject on job performance as a whole through this research. Beyond this,
the enhancement of scientific and personal participation in the individual study subject is often
advantageous (Cloutier and et. al., 2015). This should lead explicitly throughout the analysis to
making effective and accurate conclusions. Improving the organisation's efficiency is one of
administrators' main responsibilities. Whether to successfully maximize corporate efficiency,
though, is a particularly divisive problem which can be deemed a major obstacle for managers.
Corporate behaviour models play critical roles in enhancing operational efficiency and certain
components include useful strategies for members to increase organizational effectiveness.
Motivation is a key element in increasing workplace efficiency. The aim of this essay is to
perform a study and examination of research on hypotheses and scientific data on the link
between employee engagement and corporate efficiency with a commitment to drawing valuable
life lessons for management theory. To do this, the paper undertook a study of several of the
main motivating hypotheses and observational research, and their effect on the effectiveness of
workers taking insights from different organizational settings in Hospitality. The research
showed that workplace satisfaction has various reasons to consider: certain financial or monetary
variables like compensation but some are non-financial, like appreciation and demanding
employment.

Research Questions
 What is the role of motivation within the business organization?
 What are the different motivational theories used by company to motivate their
employees towards the job roles?
 What is the importance of motivational theories for employees within the company?
Research Aims and Objectives
Research Aim
“To examine the effect of motivation theory on improve the productivity of workers
within an organization”. A study on Hilton hotel.
Research Objectives
 To evaluate the role of motivation within the business organization.
 To determine the different motivational theories used by company to motivate their
employees towards the job roles.
 To define the importance of motivational theories for employees within the company.

Chapter 2: Literature review
Motivation is a main topic in sociology and explaining personal and organisational
behaviour is important. Motivations imply all psychological mechanisms that trigger
anticipation, encouragement and commitment in voluntary, goal-oriented activities. Herzberg
(1968) suggested the Motivator-Hygiene hypothesis, which would in past decades, has become
one of the main prominent hypotheses of job motivation. In the opinion of Valencia (2005) Due
to his philosophy, influences are split into two categories: motivational factors related to the
work itself, including hygiene factors related to the corporate background. Motivating factors,
like success, development, appreciation, obligation, self-development as well as the task itself,
will lead to job satisfaction and inspire people through strong change and efficiency. Herzberg's
theory says that leaders must not just provide recompense, decent working conditions as well as
other related factors in motivating the employees and boost efficiency of any company. This also
indicates that the job will be completely extended to ensure that workers have exposure to
success in order to create an employee genuinely inspired acceptance, transparency and
promotion. Job enrichment which intends to make the work on its own interesting would then
lead to improved organizational productivity and greater efficiency. Thus, leaders will prioritize
and conduct employee motivation as well as the steps involve reducing affects the ability and
duration, allowing workers the duty to verify their own jobs and establishing a better partnership
with staff and consumers.
According to Huczynski and Buchanan (2007), Hackman and Oldham say workers will be
emotionally driven when the career fulfils three essential aspects of their mental needs although
the work design and performance that includes career enrichment. Second, workers must feel
responsible for the outcomes of their jobs. Secondly, workers must consider the job as important.
Thirdly, workers must consider the effect of their actions on the organization's success. The
system offered further instruction for staff at the outset of the recruiting as well as later times,
including lessons in organizational capacity, interaction skills and management. This also
managed to give more decision-making authority to the groups and individuals. In the context of
Hilton Hotel workplace studies have demonstrated good effects from running this career
enrichment plan. Employee underemployment levels and unemployment fell, and efficiency rose
dramatically (Vom Brocke and Rosemann, 2014).

As per the view point of Huczynski and Buchanan, (2007) Vroom 's theory of average
lifespan provinces that inspiration relies on the perceived likelihood of people to achieve
performance, the potential value or preferential importance of actual performance as well as the
viewed likelihood that perhaps the results will help to achieve valued benefits. In the event that a
person thinks he or she can do a job easily or can lead to lucrative rewards, he or she will be
extremely motivated to be doing the work. Leaders should create an incentive program that
explicitly connects success and award to encourage workers to improve employee effectiveness.
Furthermore, this was also reported that the best three non-financial motivators perform
important job in supporting workers feel that their businesses value them, begin taking their
well-being sincerely and attempt to develop better career opportunities. Any organization's
performance is also calculated by the level about its efficiency. Moreover, this may be assumed
to be irrespective of the employee's mentality and morals in the context of their job dedication
standard. Therefore, no organization can continue to neglect all of the thematic variables that
may lead to the improvement of its employees' engagement rates, which is inspiration.
According to Pinder (2014), Unfulfilled and low moral expectations in a workplace establish
beliefs and attitudes, which, in effect, activate and guide a variety of behavioural aspects.
Motivation depends about how an individual believes himself compared to others. The higher the
inequality of wealth, the higher the stress and so the larger the motive to decrease it, are feelings
of injustice. Depending on the assurance, an individual may work very hard or less. Human
behaviour is motivated by objectives and rational thoughts. Goals affect the success of activities
and assignments selected by individuals. Objectives are the basis of encouragement, as well as
provide rules for immediate behaviour. Until objectives will significantly affect results, two
criteria must be met: First, the individual must be informed of the objective and realize what
needs to be done. Second party needs to consider the target as something worth fighting for.
Goals (basic premise) must be embraced, clear and practical and finding the hard target input
contributes to greater commitment and dedication than simple objectives, if targets are embraced.
The goal method links to the clarification of the realistic impact of management which includes
the complexity of the aim, clear goals, engagement and approval of employees and input on
results. To order to boost efficiency, leaders should respect the 'SMART values' observable,
achievable, reasonable and temporal (Bucherer, Eisert and Gassmann, 2012). Motivations have a
significant part in generating variation and shifts in habits of behaviour. Motivation is a feature

of ambitions, feelings, and creeds in specific organization. Motivation starts and carries on
activity till the objective of the Hotel is reached. Principles for empowering individuals capable
of modifying behavioural habits and fostering growth can be implemented in a more efficient
way.
In the opinion of Locke and Latham (2010) the target setting Theory of focuses on goals as a
context and input as results of success. This emphasis on objective regional segmentation the
setting of targets one of today's most realistic cognitive motivational factors. In short, incentive
as an inner structure positions the causes of the actions within the individual. The setting is used
to assess the right course of action in motivating systems and processes. It is hard to track and
quantify these internal states that can appear in different behavioural models. In fact, where
action or success does not reach the expectations of culture or function, we prefer to presume
that something must be wrong with the individual, rather than searching at deficiencies in the
context of the event. Assessment of behaviour seeks to explain effectiveness and attitude by
knowing the dynamics it takes place within. It is examined that people without dependents spent
many hours working and thus had higher statistics than their fellow employees with treatment.
Many with workers were much less involved in working for their own sake, less pleased with
working because production was less essential and therefore less work needed to be done. Study
findings strongly show that those who spent many work days were mainly those that were
inspired by their job position and were much more pleased with work than those who spent fewer
working time (either because they were not driven by their particular job or just because their job
description did not require that as well) (Sampaio, Thomas and Font, 2012).
In the opinion of Honari (2006) individuals, particularly industrial companies, play a
crucial role in every program. They must therefore be given great respect to make a contribution
in positive work quickly and successfully. It also demonstrated that inspiration in all companies
evokes commitment and competition, induces demand and business changes. Factors including
health, employment, human capital requirements are, thus, a few of the facets and essence of
work that raises the price and amount of product. It can also be stated that individuals,
particularly industrial companies, play a crucial role in every program. They must therefore be
given great respect to make a contribution in positive work quickly and successfully. For every
company, good or benefit, the motivating cycle plays a critical role. The management system is
guided mainly by the motivate procedure, because as willingness to operate in the path set by the

company is created in just an individual employee opinion. Within this heading, the following
can be considered:
 Ensures Loyal Workforce: A significant trait of a good company is adjusting to
growing market conditions. For a company to respond effectively to changes and to
continue to work efficiently, its workers must be extremely loyal and dedicated. This
reduces resistance to the organization's plans to make adjustments. This effectively
enables the company to require adherence to changing requirements (Long and Chrisman,
2014).
 Ensures a Reactive Workforce: A motivated employee is a loyal employee and has a
strong moral quality and a loyalty to the performance of the company. This incentive
decreases employee morale and eliminates the need for fresh workers to continually be
triggered.
 Improves productivity: Motivation like a procedure leads to higher in employee’s
performance. Motivation addresses the worker's desires and thus offers the motivation to
function in anyway. A strong employee is able to do more to improve the business than
any other frustrated staff (Swift and Piff, 2014).
 Ensures organizational efficiency: Keller (2009), motivation plays a significant role in
modifying employee behaviour within the company. Motivation extinguishes human
behaviours most effectively. The emergence of such an optimistic mind-set helps the
company to thrive and grow.
 Facilitates management: Planning is an integrated systematic process and forms a
primary function. Motivation is a key component of path, as previously stated. In order
for workers to function entirely with dedication and allegiance, as a mechanism involving
the guiding or taking action in line with a strategy established. The direction procedure is
therefore only feasible when the employees move up and down determined by the
manager and motivated employees are needed.
In the end of above discussed LR is has been founded that, the ability of doing work as well
as the desire to do research all impact a firm's ability. The potential doing a job is gained by
preparation of students as well as the desire to do a job is inspired. Staff turnover impacts the
credibility of a company (Oakshott, 2012). That makes executives a lot of trouble. There are a lot
of money and efforts investment hiring and educating personnel regularly. Motivation itself is

enough to sustain an organization. Motivated persons work in the organization for a longer
period of time as well as the employee turnover is decreasing. Conditioning (reinforcement and
punishment) ambition is accomplished in behaviour-oriented hypotheses. Training is a powerful
lever for promoting advisable behaviour and adverse effects to dissuade unwanted behaviour.
Motivation is reached as workers are happy and involved in their jobs in job-based theories; cash
reward just suffices to discourage frustration (Saunders and Lewis, 2012).

Chapter 3: Research Methodology
Research Methodology was the method and might even emerge to a final decision with the
implementation of this professor. It is calculated as a research procedure that constitutes methods
for the behaviour of a research. Therefore, for this purpose, the researcher utilizes different tools
and techniques that recognize the knowledge and experience needed to produce the desired
outcome.
Research process
The process of research is a way by which a researcher starts understanding refers to the
assumption (Pinder, 2014). Using this, the investigator can make a decision which method can be
accompanied or accepted and also to determine which kind of techniques will be suitable for
better results. Interpretivism is viewed as a method from which researcher considers human
behaviour as well as the tasks they play. It helps in interpreting a person's personal positions
inside the defined out perspectives.
A positivism variable factor is structured and offers statistical information for more data
analysis. In this researcher may calculate a significant sample size. Due to specific features this
approach is being implemented in respective work.
Research approach
Research approach is identified as a research project and method that allows an
investigator from a wider presumption to come up with a comprehensive means of analysing,
analysing and interpreting data (Osabiya, 2015).
Deductive model enables validate insinuation so that a decent association can be estimated.
When an investigator has developed a theory and needs to ask whether the hypothesis tested
must be used or discarded when doing analysis, the deductive method is ideally applied to the
same strategy.
Inductive methodology allows researcher identify novel hypotheses which have not yet been
tested (Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and Jackson, 2015).
In connection with this investigation, philosopher is using descriptive research method
because this will assist to generalize broad research question into particular research important
subjects.