DETERMINANTS OF WORK MOTIVATION IN THE CASE OF GARMENT COMPANIES ADDIS ABABA

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to find out the factors that determine employees’ work motivation in the selected garment companies at Addis Ababa Kolfe-Keraniyo sub-city. It tried to order the factors according to their significance effect on the employees’ motivation. The study examined four factors that were Salary, training &career development, work place, job security. All responses were collected by using a structured questionnaire through convenience sampling (n=375) and the researcher used quantitative and explanatory methods to carried out this research. Data was analyzed using SPSS software to obtain descriptive statistics, comparing mean scores (i.e. independent t-test) and other analyses (i.e. correlation analysis and multiple linear regressions). According to the study findings, two factors: training & career development and job security are identified as the factor that does not influence employee’s work motivation.