Motivation at work: A case study

Pages: 23-30
V. K. Jain (Department of Commerce, GMN College, Ambala Cantt, Haryana)

Human resources are the most important means of production and a significant part of the entire organization. The performance of the physical resources depends largely on the skills and performance of its Human resources. The performance in turn is ruled by motivation. It has been observed that theemployers today pay attention to have their employees motivated and ready to work and make effort that their essential needs are met so that the goals of the organization are achieved. A number of theories have been developed in this regard which explain the various factors of motivation analyzing human needs in their own way and emphasize onthe need of different management techniques to satisfy these needs and motivate the employees to work effectively. As the motivation comes from such as thoughts, beliefs, ambitions, and goals, managers can influence their employees to self-motivate to produce the best possible results. Keeping these facts in mind, the present study ‘Motivation at Work’ has been undertaken. The study tries to bring out the possible factors of motivation in a large multi-national company. The data has been collected on the basis of questionnaire and administered on the employees of one of the plants of the company located in India. Efforts have also been made to study the correlation pattern among these factors.