Motivation for employees in Global context

  Human resource is the most valuable asset owned by a company. Future of the company depends on how employees work towards achieving the goals of the organisation. To achieve the goals, organisations always try to motivate their employees. Most of the companies spend a considerable amount of their profits for various kind of motivation programmes (Ramlall, 2004). Motivation is a state of mind. High motivation leads to high morale and greater production. A motivated employee gives his best to the organization. He stays loyal and committed to the organization (Juneja, n.d.) If motivation process is not successful it will be a cost of thousands of rupees. Demotivated employees will bring negative impact to the organisation. Sometimes it will lead to the downfall of the organisation. (Veer, 2015) When an organisation initiates a motivation programme, organisation will face many challenges. Some of them are Diverse Workforce Workforce of an organisation is a changing ...

Every organisation requires leadership. Managers can affect the behaviour of the employees through leadership. Effective leadership can develop a motivated employee and it is one of the most important results of leadership. If any manager can influence his employees to achieve the goals of the organisation, we can call him a successful leader. Important part of employee motivation is to help employees to achieve their personal while achieving the organisational goals (Naile and Selesho, 2014) . Leadership According to Koontz and O’Donnell (1960), “Leadership is the process of influencing people so that they will strive willingly towards the achievement of group goals.” Studies of leadership commenced from 19 th century, and it has been studied in various ways. Hence it has different definitions. But simply we can call that leadership is a skill and the person who possess that skill is leader. Main quality of a leader is the ability to influence the people to achieve common go...

  Covid 19 pandemic situation turned things upside down. Due to the pandemic, the entire world has come to a standstill. The working environment which we used to work in, had to undergo a full change. As a simple example prior to the pandemic, concept of working from home was minimal but suddenly it become the only option for most companies. (Diab-Bahman and Al-Enzi, 2020) Many large firms continued with planning to bring back only part of their employees to the offices and while the others work remotely. This concept is known as a hybrid workplace. But in present new normal situation, hybrid workplace poses some real challenges to companies. Main challenge is to enhance and maintain employee motivation. (Jurist, 2021) According to Singal (n.d) following factors were identified as reason which required employee motivation as a vital part in post pandemic situation          I.           Long duration of work f...

  From early childhood people do only what they like to do. In schools, students do things whether they like or not since they are forced to do that. Same thing applied to workplace too. If employee likes what he does, he engages with the work in a satisfactory manner. But if he does not like what he does, he tries to avoid the task. (How Employee Motivation Increases Employee Retention, n.d.) What is employee turnover and employee retention? Employee turnover is the rotation of workers around the labour market; between firms, jobs and occupations; and between the states of employment and unemployment (M Abbasi and W.Hollman, 2000) In other words, If an organisation is losing its talent over a period, it is known as employee turnover. Preventing employee turnover is known as employee retention. Causes for employee turnover        I.           Work life balance    Long hours of work, work style or ...