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The Influence Of Job Motivation On The Psychological Well Being Of Employees
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According to research conducted by mostly, Megginsoin & Pietri in 2001, there are three levels of employee’s motivations.
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The direction of an employee’s behavior. It relates to those behaviors
which the individuals choose to perform.
· The level of effort. It refers to how hard the individual is willing to work on the behavior.
· The level of persistence. It refers to the individuals willingness to behave despites obstacles.
Daschle
& Ninemeier (1989) conducted research and investigated what
employees may seek from the environment. Their discussion reviews some
of employee-related concerns that can be found in the venue of
strategies to employee’s motivation.
· Employees are
individuals that come from different backgrounds they have different
experiences and their different family classes are all the factors in
which their needs be located.
· The primary interest of employees is to satisfy their personal needs, ambitions, desires and goals.
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An employee wants to satisfy its basic needs, linked to survival and
security concerns and a desire to belong to generate positive feelings
from within and from others and to be self fulfilled.
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Most employees wants (a) fair and consistent company policies in matters
affection them (b) management they can respect and trust.(c) adequate
working relationships with managers and co-workers. (d) Acceptable
salaries and working environment. (e) Appropriate job security assurance
(f) favorable job status
· The other important factors
that can fulfill and motivate employees are challenging work, work that
yields a sense of personal accomplishment, expression of appreciation
for good performance, increased responsibility and the chance to grow in
the job, the feeling of importance and making a contribution to the
organization and participation in job-related matters that affect the
employees.
The research conducted by Dr. Koshifurrehman et al (2007)
in Pakistan measuring the effect of “Human Resource Strategies†like
pay, promotion and training on job satisfaction. Their study was focused
on work force of service based companies in Pakistan. They concluded
from their research that pay, promotion and training had positive and
significant impact on job satisfaction. They urged and suggested that
employees in Pakistan give more importance to pay and promotion than
training.
The significant differences were found among male and
female employees’ job satisfaction level in Pakistani based service
organization. According to their reports service based industry is going
under tremendous changes for the last few years in Pakistan. Due to
these changes not only their transactions are increasing but their range
of services is also expanding. As a result different sectors of service
industry such as banks, educational institutes and telecommunication
firms are experiencing swift turnover (Rehman, Malik & Taj Rizwan
2007).
Human beings are motivated by requirements that fulfill their
needs. This depends on many factors, and vary by the individual
requirements and necessary situation. Beside basic needs that range from
food, clothing, medicine and shelters, there is workplace that needs to
be extended for acceptance and self-esteem. The researcher has
indicated that each individual experience these factors in different
level. Therefore, managers should figure out the basic theories of
motivation, how to better (Cheng 1995).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examines the influence of Job motivation on the Psychological well being of employees amongst school teachers of some selected schools and staff of Daar communication Alagbado Lagos. The knowledge derived from this study was used to test the three hypotheses.The findings of the test led to the rejection of the hypothesis that job motivation would influence the psychological well being of employees, no direct relationship was found between motivation and psychological well being. The re ... Continue reading---
