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Motivation and Job Satisfaction


Motivation plays a central role in the field of management. Motivation affects how and to what extent skills and abilities are utilized. Unmotivated employees are less willing to be cooperative and supportive and they may decrease work effort, time on the job, productivity and performance.

An employee who is motivated will try harder to do a good job than one who is not motivated. However, performance is not based simply on motivation. Motivating employees to perform to their maximum potential may not be the same for each employee in the company or in that particular department. Employee motivation can be varied due to a number of dependent variables like personal needs, external rewards, recognition, self-actualization and self-esteem.

Employer can only motivate workers in the form by creating the conditions and environment that make people feel happy and satisfied to give their heart and soul to the job and the company. The contributions from the employees are key determinants of any organizational success and it is closely linked to creating highly motivated workforce that encompassing great job satisfaction among the employees.

If the workforce is satisfied with their job as well as the organizational environment including its colleagues, compensation, and leadership they will be more committed with their organization as compared to when they are not satisfied.

Satisfied and committed workforce is usually a contributor and performer towards enhancing organizational productivity. When an employee feels a satisfaction about the job, he/she is motivated to put greater effort to the job performance. Then it tends to increase the overall performance of the organization. In other words, a satisfied individual employee and his effort and commitment are crucial for the success of the organization.

The happier the individual, the higher is the level of job satisfaction. It is assumed that positive attitude towards work and greater organizational commitment increases job satisfaction which in return enhances performance of the individual. As the performance of the employees' increases, it will affect firm's performance and ultimately profitability of the firm.

Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job and an attitude towards one's job. It describes how content an individual is with his or her job. The happier the people are within their job, the more satisfied they are said to be.

In my line of work, the workers respond best and most effectively when they are given broader responsibilities, encourage to contribute and help to achieve satisfaction in their work. In fact, it is not job satisfaction that produces high performance but high performance that produces job satisfaction. People are motivated to achieve certain goals and will be satisfied if they achieve these goals through improved performance.

As a matter of fact, job satisfaction refers to the degree to which people like their jobs. Even if compensation is not that much compared to other companies but my co-employees really work hand in hand to achieve a quality output especially during our General Assembly. It only means that positive relationship from the top management down to the rank and file employees is a strong predictor of an effective productivity.

Employee job satisfaction is very important especially in providing higher employee commitment and loyalty and contains an evaluation of various characteristics of the job such as the working conditions, empowerment and participation, reward and recognition, teamwork and training and development.

Empowerment also is really needed in order for employees to do their job independently without constant intervention of management, employees think about their own jobs, and find and solve problems related to their job.

Thus, in order to stimulate employee satisfaction, performance measures for organization may need to be modified to take the quality efforts into consideration When this is provided by the firm, employee satisfaction increases.


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