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Importance of Employee Motivation and Job Satisfaction:

Increased productivity

According to this article, motivated and satisfied employees are more productive at the workplace. Given the various reasons that might inform satisfaction and motivation (appraisals, good remuneration and opportunity for growth), employees easily feel comfortable and maintain focus on delivering on the roles given

According to the authors of this article, good remuneration and supportive working environments have significant positive impacts on the levels of employee productivity. Employees that are well paid and who work in optimal working stations are happier and more motivated, causing them to perform better at their jobs.

The authors of this article argue that there is a great link between being satisfied and motivated at work and performing well in designated roles. Flexible hours of work, incentives, performance appraisals, levels of training and empowerment, job design and general extent to which their jobs are enriched are some of the factors that this article underscores to inform high level productivity at work.

According to this article, there are strong links between how one is motivated and the level of their satisfaction at work. The article underscores the need for managers in contemporary human resource market to ensure the workforce is satisfied as that will lead to motivation. Consequently, motivated employees are bound to be more efficient and perform better at their jobs through increased efficiency

Commitment

In this article, the authors appreciate and underscore the role of job satisfaction and employee motivation in informing commitment. According to them, commitment to work is the greatest manifestation of satisfaction at work.

According to this article, guaranteeing workforce commitment should be one of the major agendas of human resource departments. The authors offer that while the recruitment of the best team is a critical process, even more vital is the need to ensure they stay at the organization. As such, that highlights the need to ensure workers commit their future to the organization.

The authors of this article submit that a committed workforce is a reward to an organization’s efforts at motivating and satisfying the needs of its employees. They argue that one of the sure ways to guarantee employee retention in the contemporary competitive global market is to motivate and satisfy workers so that they commit their future to the company.

This article argues that ‘employee motivation and job satisfaction equals commitment.’ Given the positive implications of committed employees, the human resource department has to prioritize motivation of employees.