Abstract
Every organization is competing to survive in this ever increasingly challenging market environment. In order to survive, they need pools of excellent, talented and productive human capital to work in organization. With that, organizations need to provide public servants with suitable benefits such as a good salary, appreciations, good remuneration and other form of benefits. However, there is still a numbers of complaints received the public regarding poor service delivery especially from the counter services and front-line employees. In fact, an increasing number of complaints have been made the public due to delays by public sectors’ employees in term of service delivery. This might happen due to the lack of work motivation and resulted in poor work performance. Therefore, this study aims to identify the factors that contribute to low work motivation and also to examine the relationship between motivational factors with employees’ work motivation. Questionnaires constructed were distributed to 97 respondents from each divisions in Immigration Department. Besides, Descriptive statistics and Pearson Correlation were used in analyzing the data. The findings revealed that communication is the major factor that contributes to their low work motivation. In addition, motivated employees agreed that rewards and recognition and also communication may motivate them to work. In relation to this, recommendations have been made for future improvement and suggestions proposed for future research.
Highlights
IntroductionEvery organization is competing to survive in this ever increasingly challenging and volatile market environment
Every organization is competing to survive in this ever increasingly challenging and volatile market environment. They need pools of excellent, talented and productive human capital to work in organizations
To analyse the relationship between motivational factors and employees’ work motivation, the findings first outline the data on the level of employees’ work motivation, followed by the discussion on the factors that contribute to low work motivation among employees in the public sector
Summary
Every organization is competing to survive in this ever increasingly challenging and volatile market environment. The employees themselves will be highly motivated in their jobs and this will lead to high performance in their work This will help the organizations in competing and surviving in a challenging market environment. In Malaysia, the government has provided incentives such as salary increment and good remuneration system to ensure public servants are highly competent and motivated to do their jobs. It was introduced due to the complaints associated with lateness, rudeness and lack of job committed in service delivery, made by the public. This might happen due to the lack of work motivation and resulted in their low performance. In order to retain good employees in the organizations, it is important for organizations to design and offer good remuneration and compensation system as one way to motivate the employees to work because failure to motivate employees will affect individual and the organizations as a whole
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