Assessment of the Employee Perception of Reward System on Employee Motivation

Kaijage, Evance Lwekaza (2017) Assessment of the Employee Perception of Reward System on Employee Motivation. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

In today’s world of competition, advanced technology and innovations, organization are realizing the need of establishing a system that will stand before employees and employers to create an equitable balance between the employee’s contribution to the organization and the organization’s contribution to the employee. The Problem statement of this study is that most of the reward system in place are designed by the management basing on the writings of different researchers without involving employees so it is hard find out if these system are upright and satisfy employees so this study intended to involve and assess employees and find out how they perceive the reward system.Data were collected from 46 respondents through questionnaires and interview and analyzed by the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and excel for drawing graphs and tables. The research results revealed that the reward system used by MEDA to motivate employees are extrinsic and intrinsic rewards of which majority of the employees perceived it to be a fair system though there were some areas to be improved for highly motivating employees. The overall findings of the study attest to the fact that employee perception of reward system on employee motivation provides relevant and timely feedback and give commitment to management to improve and manage accordingly the reward system in order to motivate employee and eventually increase employee performance and commitment to the organization. Lastly, it was recommended that the reward system should use the findings of this study to rectify those areas which were identified to dissatisfy the employee so as to motivate them for better performance and meet the organization’s objectives.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: 600 Technology > 658 Gerneral management
Divisions: Faculty of Business Management > Department of Leadership and Governance
Depositing User: Mr Habibu Kazimzuri
Date Deposited: 28 Sep 2018 11:52
Last Modified: 28 Sep 2018 11:52
URI: http://repository.out.ac.tz/id/eprint/1961

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