Challenges faced by organisations in employee motivation

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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

  1. Diverse Workforce

Workforce of an organisation is a changing one because employees have different kinds of goals and employees have varied thinking. Hence organisation is not in a position to prepare motivational programme which will be suitable for a diverse workforce.

  1. Employees motives cannot be observed

Even though organisations carefully prepared their motivational programmes, employees with same qualification and experience may show different results because motivation factors differ from employee to employee

  1. Continuous changes in the job role of the employees

Due to organisational policy employees face continuous changes in their job role and due to that staff have to bear a heavy workload. That will demotivate him even though organisations intention was to motivate the employee.

(Juneja, n.d.)

If any organisation happens to overcome above challenges, motivation process will still not be achieved as expected due to the following problems occur from the employees.

I. Low self confidence 

If employees have a good confidence in themselves, it will enhance their motivation. Confident employee always tries to complete his or her tasks and achieve their goals. If employees have low self-confidence he or she will not perform well and will not be a successful in work force

II. Fear to fail

If employees fear to fail they will not accept new challenges. They will always try to avoid challenging tasks.

III. Lack of expectation in success

If employees have intention or positive expectations to be successful in what he is doing, it will motivate the employees. But employees who lack expectation in success will not accept future challenges. And most of the time such employees ty to demotivate other employees too.

IV. Low interest in work

If employees have low interest in what they are doing, they will not be motivated. Even though organisations may invest thousands on such employees, the results may mostly be negative.

V. Lack of clarity

When employees do not have an idea about what he is doing or why he is engaged in that work, same will demotivate him or her

(Veer, 2015)

 

In addition to above mention obstacles followings also affect failure in the motivation process

  1. I. Poor management style

    II. No proper appreciation for achievements

    III. One way communication

    IV. An inconsistence approach toward employees .

V.  Obsolete rules and regulations

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References

 

Andriots, N., 2017. The Dos And Don’ts Of Managing People: How To Mend Broken Morale. [Blog] Efront,.

Ramlall, S., 2004. A review of employee motivation theories and their implications for employee retention within organizations. Journal of American academy of business, 5(1/2), pp.52-63.

Juneja, P., n.d. Motivational Challenges. [online] Managementstudyguide.com. Available at: <https://www.managementstudyguide.com/motivational-challenges.htm> [Accessed 3 May 2022].

McQuerrey, L., 2018. Top Five Employee Motivation Problems. [online] Work - Chron.com. Available at: <https://work.chron.com/top-five-employee-motivation-problems-22613.html> [Accessed 3 May 2022].

Omar, M.W., Jusoff, K. and Hussin, H., 2010. Employee motivation and its impact on employee loyalty. World Applied Sciences Journal, 8(7), pp.871-873.

Samuels, L., 2018. 10 MOST COMMON MOTIVATION CHALLENGES & EASY SOLUTIONS. [Blog] ohsoorganized, Available at: <https://www.ohsoorganized.com/blog/2018/7/2/10-most-common-motivation-challenges-easy-solutions.html> [Accessed 3 May 2022].

Varma, C., 2017. Importance of employee motivation & job satisfaction for organizational performance. International journal of social science & interdisciplinary research, 6(2).

Veer, U., 2015. Five Major Employee Motivation Problems. [online] Linkedin.com. Available at: <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-major-employee-motivation-problems-uday-veer> [Accessed 3 May 2022].

 

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