The effect of motivation on team building

Abstract

The research was about assessment of the effect of motivation on team building: a case study of National Water and Sewerage Corporation. The general objective of this study was to assess the relationship between motivation and team building. The specific objectives were; to assess how working conditions can affect team building in National Water and Sewerage Corporation, to ascertain how pay affects team building in National Water and Sewerage Corporation, to assess the extent to which promotion affect team building in National Water And Sewerage Corporation. However, apart from motivation, there were those intervening variables that the researcher saw to affect team building, and these are: pay benefits; education level; employee tribal composition; and employee age levels. All these thus make up the conceptual framework. The researcher used qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample selected a sample size of 32 respondents but only 30 where able to bring back the filled questionnaires. The respondents comprised of 16 men and 14 women from the organization. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and observation methods of data collection and The findings of the study show that motivation impacts teambuilding positively, and it is because of this that NWSC performs harder than other organizations in the region. However, because NWSC does not so much motivate its workers, it should endeavor to do so because employees do not only work as a team on the basis pay, working conditions and promotion, but because of encouragement too. Data was collected and analyzed using the SPSS and results from the correlation showed that the relationship between the variables is significant that is to say there is a positive relationship and that company management should listen thoroughly to employees’ ideas for job improvement or other problems, concerns, frustrations, conflicts, drama, kids’ issues, parents’ issues among others so that they know well their employees, how to handle their problems and how to deal with them this will motivate employees to work