Factors Affecting Employee Motivation in Ethiopian Roads Authority

Abstract

Motivation is one of the best essential elements in the area of Human Resources Management. Most employers nowadays would like to have their employee‟s motivated and prepared to work, but do not know about what truthfully motivates a person. Companies could be more efficient if the employees had deployed the effort in the future of the company. There are essential needs come across for a person, particularly an employee, to be successful in the workplace. The most important theories include: Maslow‟s hierarchy of needs, Herzberg‟s two-factor theory, and the different theories of factors affecting employee motivation. Each factor is related in the fact that there are needs for all people to meet. To this end, the purpose of this research is to examine factors affecting motivation among the employees of the company. The questionnaire survey was embarking on undertaken among 86 employees of the company to analyze their perceptions relating to motivation in workplace and also investigating the opinions of the leads, team leaders and also with managers about the same issue. In this study the researcher used a concurrent sampling in which quantitative probability and qualitative purposeful sampling are combined in this research. Purposive or judgmental sampling is used to extract qualitative data and stratified sampling is used to draw samples for the quantitative data. Moreover the researcher used descriptive and explanatory research design with 5 Likert scale to measure variables, and data were quantitatively and qualitatively collected through close-ended questionnaires and semi structured interview respectively. Data was analyzed through correlation and linear regressions using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 20 software. According to the study, it was found out that non-finical factor, job security and work condition are the most influencing factors. Generally, the company should focus on employee‟s motivational factors particularly non-finical factor, job security and work condition.