The Influence of Rewards on Employee Motivation at Work Place: A Case of The Open University of Tanzania.

Mwaja, Sarah (2023) The Influence of Rewards on Employee Motivation at Work Place: A Case of The Open University of Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Determining the influence of rewards on employees’ motivation at work place has not been given great attention by many organizations including academic public Institutions. The overall study objective was to determine the influence of rewards on employees’ motivation at the workplace and its consequences on employees’ recognition and satisfaction. This study was guided by Two Factor Theory, a theory by Fredrick Herzberg. This is because it was related to the topic the researcher chose for the study and also it was related to the workplace of the employee’s lifetime. Fredrick theorized the employee satisfaction has two dimensions, Hygiene and motivation.Hygene issues such as salary and supervision, for the motivation such as recognition and achievement. Twenty (20) structured questionnaires were distributed personally to respondents and only 186 respondents returned the questionnaires. The sample size were generated by using formula as per Yamane (1967) whereby the researcher got a sample of 246 employees from the total population of 637 of employees at the OUT. Both data collection methods primary and secondary data collection used. The researcher opted for this methods because it was less expensive, easy and are more practical. The findings revealed that in the independent variables 77.7% agreed that learning opportunity was above all rewards influencing employees’ motivation while the relationship between rewards and employee motivation the findings indicated that there was a perfect relationship between the two, as the correlation of value ranged -1 and 1. A correlation of value -1 was a perfect negative correlation while a correlation of 1 was a perfect correlation. A correlation of 0 indicated that no relationships between the two variables. Finally on employee’s satisfaction with rewards 67.2% of respondents were neutral on being satisfied with the basic salary one receive. However,further studies on the same topic are crucial because of the continuing changing in the global environment and drastic technological changes in public institutions. The implication of this study to the existing body of knowledge was addressing the objectives in terms of widening the theoretical understanding in determining the influence of rewards on employee motivation at work place. The study contributes theoretically to having an extended understanding of determining the influence of rewards on employee motivation at work place as well as boosting employee working morale through administered rewards by the organization to achieve the organization’s performance and customers’ satisfaction to generate the organization's win-win business position. Key words: Rewards, employee, motivation, The Open University of Tanzania.

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