The relationship between employee motivation and organizational performance outcomes

¶ … Organizational Success, Performance Management and Motivation and the Relationship between Performance Management and Reward

A landmark in the successes of an organization is to fulfill the incessant changing needs of organization and workers; grave responsibility falls on top management to develop strong associations between them. Organizations expect workers to follow the rules and regulations, work according to the principles set for them; the workers expect good working conditions, fair pay, fair treatment, secure career, power and involvement in decisions. These expectations of both parties differ from organization to organization. For organizations to address these expectations, an understanding of workers' motivation is necessary (Zaidi & Abbas, 2011).

It is important for the organizations to meet and initiate new motivational needs of workers in today's organizations. The reality is that organizations today have completely changed; consequently it is more important for the top management to carry out new methodologies of developing sturdy and strong relationship between the organization and workers for meeting the organizational goals and fulfilling the incessantly changing needs of both parties. A total and comprehensive understanding of employees' motivation is necessary for organizations to tackle and achieve these expectations. It is clear that strong associations among organizations and workers are a mechanism for success in fulfilling the needs of a changing work environment for both the parties. In order to make a strong bond with employees the role of top management is vital in this respect (Zaidi & Abbas, 2011).

The Link between Organizational Success, Performance Management and Motivation

A strong worker relationship leads to an augmented level of satisfaction among the workers and in turn an increase in productivity. The workplace becomes a much happier place and workers tend to focus more on work rather than fruitless things. Motivation plays a significant role in healthy worker relationships. A motivated worker works better and at a much faster pace as compared to others. Motivating the worker would in turn benefit the organization only. Human beings need to be goaded from time to stay away from a dip in their performance and for them to continue to be loyal towards management. Motivation acts as a method for organization's success and helps the individuals to continue to be productive and deliver better results every time (Role of Motivation in Employee Relationship, 2012).

Motivation is derived from the word motivate which means to move, push or influence others to act in a way to satisfy a need. A lot of people have thought motivation to be goal directed behavior. Put another way, a motivated person has an awareness of specific goals that must be attained in specific ways; therefore they direct its endeavor to attain such goals. It means that motivated people are best fit for the goals that they want to achieve as they are fully aware of its assumptions. Consequently if the roles of managers are assumed to productively guide workers towards the organizational schedule of achieving its objectives, then it is very significant for them to educate and comprehend those psychological processes and undertakings that root cause the inspiration, direction of purpose, determination and perseverance of voluntary actions (Zaidi & Abbas, 2011).

Performance management can be regarded as a result of applying and completing the principles and functions of human resources management and only secondly, it is the consequence of accomplishing and applying the functions and principles of career, strategic and reward management. "As a function of the performance management, evaluation must constitute a cause for the effect, namely the efficient decision. Efficient decision will be, in its turn, a cause for the effect that is the reward" (Lucica, n.d.).

Conclusion

A business is only as good as its employees. If a company has unmotivated employees in will find that it is hard to stay viable and competitive in today's business world. The trick is for companies to figure out how to motivate their employees to do the best job that they possibly can to help the company achieve its overall strategic goals. A lot of companies have found that having a good rewards system in place is a good motivational tool to get the best job performance out of all employees.