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Employee motivation across different cultures

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In present business context companies search for talented individuals for recruitment. If they do find such people, they will be absorbed to the organization. Hence,  we found employees of companies from different background. In addition to that due to advancement of technology and competition organizations has expand their borders. Due to these factors, we can find employees from different backgrounds and different cultures. Why should organizations focus on cross culture employee motivation? Employees from different cultural backgrounds have different ideas and insights about management and leadership, and they also have different perspectives and behaviours. In order to enhance the effectiveness of management, enterprises must face the obstacles of cultural differences in human resource management and must seriously solve the problems caused by cross-cultural factors. (Zhao and Pan, 2017) For last two decades the employee productivity is reducing in the employees those who...

What is employee motivation? A discussion from real world

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You may have heard the following quotes in your day to day life. "That person is motivated person". "He is not motivated". "Companies should motivate their employees". Then what is really   Motivation is derived from the Latin word, "Movere" which means needs, desires, wants or drives within the individuals. It is the process that guide people to actions to achieve the goals. (Ramlall, 2004) Motivation has been discussed through decades. Many researchers have their own definition for motivation. Some of them are, According to Michael J. Jucius “Motivation is the act of stimulating one or oneself to get a desired course of action to push the right button to get desired results”. Similarly, Dale Beach says “Motivation can be defined as willingness to expend energy to achieve a goal or a reward”. (Rina, 2022) The essence of the above definitions portrays motivation as a human behaviour and to achieve the desired goals and objectives, we must...