| dc.description.abstract | The study sought to establish the relationship between motivation and employee
performance a case study of World Vision Uganda, Karamoja Region. The study was
guided by three objectives and these included the following; to assess the types of
motivation that exists in the organization, to assess the effectiveness of motivation on
staff performance and to examine the relationship between Motivation and
organizational performance of staff in World Vision.
The study was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative approach using
survey, correlation and case study as research design. The research relied also on
documentary review, structured interview, questionnaire research methods and
techniques. The study population comprised a total of 60 employees and the sample
size of the study was 52 which was determined using the sloven’s formula, n=
N/1+Ne2
. Respondents were selected using simple random and purposive sampling.
Data was analyzed using SPSS package to come up with complete research findings
and statistics that enabled interpretation of results.
The analysis from the empirical findings showed that tangible motivation was the
most ranked factor for all the respondents that made up the sample survey. However a
study from previous researchers used in this study showed that different results could
be obtained from a bigger sample size or geographical location of the organization.
This study therefore can be seen as an introduction to a more detailed study to be
carried by future researchers on the field of employee’s motivation. The researcher
also found out that many respondents performed well after being motivated although
others disagreed that their performance was dependent on motivation. . However, the
study found that motivation attributes to the variation in the performance of
employees with a beta of 47.5% (0.475) and the remaining 52.5% is attributed to
other factors other than motivation. It was also noted that there is a strong positive
relationship between motivation and employee performance and the relationship is
significant (r =.475, p<0.01). There was also a strong relationship between motivation
and employee performance.
However, the findings, recommendations and conclusions of the study revealed a
strong relationship between motivation and employee performance. The study
recommends additional research to be carried out to gain a continuous view, insight
and knowledge of what motivates employees to perform best on their jobs. Employee
motivation even after some 50years of research continues to be one of the problems
and challenges facing organizations today. Furthermore factors such as technological
advances, globalization, retrenchments etc leave employees with an uncertain future
this is because most organizations today do not guarantee life employment’s for their
employees as it was the case before. | en_US |
