Predictors of Employee Motivation: Your Magic Wand for Organizational Success

Attrition among skilled and knowledgeable workforce across levels is a major concern among industries and in its various sub segments. This jump shift of employees is attributed to the motivation from the monetary and non monetary benefits associated with their jobs. Contemporary research and observations show that well motivated employees are more productive and creative towards achieving company or organizational goals. On the other hand less motivated employees show it on their performance and tend to divert from attaining organizational goals. With this background that a well motivated workforce can provide to an organization not only in terms of better productivity but also solves some of the challenges in people management like retention of employees to improving product quality and customer satisfaction – a constant enquiry into the health of an organization can be understood through the levels of its employee motivation. Hence this paper takes up a company as a sample location to study the predictors of employee motivation as there is no magic one single approach that fits all.