Employee Motivation in the Information Technology Industry

  There have been various definitions and theories for employee motivation.  (Pinder , 2008) , stated that the motivation can be explain as the method which reflect employees’ persistence, direction and intensity therefor, motivated employees deliver the maximum commitment to work. Motivation is the process which move employees from distress to desire  (Ismail, 2008) , in according to the (Korzynski , 2013) employee motivation depends on technological, generational and organizational changes. Idea that new generation more familiar with new technology and more practical when dealing with customers or organization further, employee like to work under modern organization culture and it will increase their effectiveness. Today’s Information Technology (IT) organizations contain a very diverse workforce. Diversity exists in terms of in age, gender, organizational tenure, and professional versus administrator status  (Irby, 2011). (Perumal, 2008) Emphasis that the emplo...

According to (Armstrong, 2006) a place where people prefer to work. Should be a “Great place to work”. Gennard and Judge(2005) State that employees always lookout for the best available package of monetary and non-monetary conditions available in the market. Accordingly to the Gennard and Judge(2005), the monetary components include, §   Hours of work. §   Paid holidays. §   Incentive schemes. §   Pension schemes. §   Salary rates. §   Childcare facilities and flexible working arrangement opportunities. §   Sick pay arrangements.   In according to the Gennard and Judge(2005), the non-monetary elements include items such as,   §   Possibility for career progression and promotions. §   Opportunities to upgrade skills and gain new skills through training and development. §   The level of control over the job and job satisfaction in related to job design. §   The ability to work in a friendly environment with good coworkers....

  In according to the (Abbah, 2014) No one works free, money is the main motivational factor, no other benefits come even close to it. Employees want to earn   good salary for their workload, money is the fundamental inducement, and no other incentive or motivational technique comes even close to it.   (Leete, 2000) Describes about the wage equity to worker motivation, further wages should similar to same designation in the same organization or other employees in other organizations.   Research report by (Ali and Ahmed, 2009) , Describes that rewards and recognition directly affect the performance of employees. Organizations should implement promotion, increment of salaries, bonus and appreciation method to retain high performance employees. Employees expect the appreciation and states for their performance (Danish and Usman , 2010) . Implementation of Correct leadership style and method increase the turnover rate of any organization further, le...

Motivated employees highly productive and force other to work harder there for, it is important organization to implement different motivation factors to improve productivity  (Dugguh, 2014) . According to the (Adi, 2000) employee’s qualification or capability cannot measure their performance idea that, only desire for work has to be implement which help in improving level of performance, increase productivity and reduce the cost of operation. This will improve the efficiency of employees. (Anka, 1988), Emphasis that the motivation increases the employee satisfaction .Organization can provide promotion, incentive and opportunities for employee’s .This will create good relationship with employee and organization as a result, organization can increase the profit through increase productivity further, employee motivation leads to achieve of organization goals. Skilled and efficiency of employees and their experience, qualification are asset to any organization this implies reput...

  According to Maslow’s employees, have five major needs: safety, physiological, social, esteem , and self- actualizing. His theory mainly based on personal judgment and employee’s lower level of needs have to be fulfill before the next higher-level need.   (Abbah, 2014) . Physiological Needs: A physiological need is the lower level of need and most basic, such as food, air, water and shelter.  Organization must provide reasonable salary to employee to fulfill their main requirement .If the organization fail to give good wedge, result will be less performance and employee want be able to make much of contribution (Ozguner and Ozguner, 2014) .   Safety Needs: This is the second level of the needs. After the physiological need fulfilled the employees, consider their working environment free from threats and harms. If employee feels that, they work in unsafe zone and result will be same as less efficiency. Therefor organization must maintain safe and friendl...

Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory discusses about the either factors that lead employees of an organization towards job satisfaction or dissatisfaction ( Dartey-Baah & Amoako, 2011) it consists of both the hygiene as well as motivator factors. Motivator factor increases job satisfaction while improving the hygiene factors may decrease the chance of employees being dissatisfied about their jobs  (Ball, 2003) . In according to  (Ball, 2003) job satisfaction can be increase by follows,   §   Providing enough authority to work itself Each employee should have enough freedom to work by him/herself. §   Sense of personal growth Employees should feel that he/she has enough space for growth within the organization. §   The employees should feel a sense of achievement The feeling, which appreciates the contribution of each employee and his/her role in the great achievement. §   Providing opportunities for advancement Employees who per...