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Employee performance
The study sought to establish the level of importance of employee performance to an
organisation. The findings are as illustrated in table
Table Employee performance
Key: SD Strongly Disagree, D Disagree, UD undecided, A agree, SA
Strongly Agree
Employee Performance SA
A
UD
D
SD T M
Improved employee
performance helps an
organization serve its customers
better
F
81 82 18 38 24 245 3.62
%
33.06 33.47 7.35 15.51 9.80 100 72.41
Better employee performance
saves an organization the cost of
recruiting new employees
F
87 94 21 29 14 245 3.86
%
35.51 38.37 8.57 11.84 5.71 100 77.22
Improving employee
performance makes an
organization efficient
F
79 98 31 24 13 245 3.84
%
32.25 40 12.65 9.80 5.31 100 76.82
Employee performance is high
when employees are motivated
F
87 128 4 26 0 245 4.13
%
35.51 52.24 1.63 10.61 0 100 82.53
Source: Field work (2014)
The study findings revealed that 82.53% (mean= 4.13) of the respondents strongly agreed
that Employee performance is high when employees are motivated, while 77.22%
(mean= 3.86) strongly agreed that better employee performance saves an organization the
cost of recruiting new employees. Furthermore, 76.82% (mean= 3.84) of the respondents
strongly agreed that Improving employee performance makes an organization efficient
and 72.41% (mean= 3.62) of the respondents strongly agreed that Improved employee
performance helps an organization serve its customers better.
These findings are in agreement with those of Boyens (2007) who argues that it is
important for the leader to know what motivates each individual. If unsure, find out by
asking the employees. The leader should get to know the employees as people before
getting to know them as employees. This knowledge will help the leader to recognize and
reward them individually. Capotondi (2002) states that the organizations responsibility is
to recruit, organize, reward, communicate and windup in a way that is functional. It is
crucial with adaptation for the company to be profitable. A leader needs to know his/her
employees and understand that not everyone is like-minded.
Regression Analysis Table
Regression model
Model Summary
Model R R Square
Adjusted
R Square
Std. Error of
the Estimate
1 .719
a
0.518 0.509 0.57509
a. Predictors: (Constant), D, A, C, B
ANOVA
b
Model
Sum of
Squares Df Mean Square
F
Sig.
1 Regression 84.429 4 21.107 63.82 .000
a
Residual 78.714 238 0.331
Total 163.144 242
a. Predictors: (Constant), Salaries, Promotion, Training, and Work environment
b. Dependent Variable: Employee performance
Coefficients
a
Model
Unstandardized
Coefficients
Standardized
Coefficients
T Sig.
B Std. Error Beta
1 (Constant) -0.527 0.358 -1.474 0.142
Salaries 0.294 0.062 0.214 4.733 0.000
Promotion 0.394 0.059 0.306 6.626 0.000
Training -0.091 0.063 -0.065 -1.433 0.153
Work
Environment
0.779 0.064 0.564 12.192 0.000
a. Dependent Variable: Employee performance
Source: Field Work (2014)
There is significant relationship between salaries as an employee motivation factor and
Employee performance. This relationship can be explained by the fact that most people
seek jobs for financial gain and therefore better pay motivates them to keep working. The
aim of compensation is to attract competent employees, to retain them and to motivate
them to achieve the aims of the organization or employer. Some decades ago the
employee benefits were hardly considered to be part of the employee‟s compensation.
Benefits were privileges and not rights. Today it is the size and extent of the package that
is one of the contributory factors in deciding whether to join or exit the organization.
These findings concur with Studies conducted by Tetty (2005) have indicated that
dissatisfaction with salaries is a key factor undermining the commitment of academics to
their institutions and careers, and consequently their decision or intent to leave.
Therefore, this suggests that employers need to realize that if incentives and working
conditions are not are not improved and exit may become one of the options for them.
The employees will look for another job that is going to better their salaries. It is
unfortunate that the provincial health department is not in a position to determine
employee salaries as a result of this competency being centrally determined in the public
service.
The Gallup Organization conducted an extensive study of 80,000 managers to analyse the
factors contributing to the quality of the workplace. The study finds that employee
satisfaction and job retention can be achieved through remuneration. Out of 12
dimensions employed in the survey, employee remuneration third. Urichuk (1999) argues
that employee turnover is due to a lack of proper employee remuneration and reward, and
points out that better remuneration helps in retaining the sincere employee and saves time
and money to recruit new people and it also encourages other workers to do a good job.
Hard to believe, yet motivation is achieved through better remuneration.
From regression analysis there is significant relationship between employee promotion as
a motivating factor and employee performance. Employee promotions and job
advancement is one of the most common reasons an employee gives for leaving an
organization, according to McCabe, Feiock, Clingermayer and Stream (2008). Employees
may change jobs for reasons of professional and personal advancement, or to join an
employer who provides more attractive pay packages as well as career growth.
These findings are in agreement with those of Duffy and Stark (2000) who reveal that
frustration and a desire to quit have relevance to low positive affectivity, and are related
strongly and negatively to job satisfaction. Commitment towards the organization is
degraded if there is a perception of underhanded methods in promotion activities.
Bayt.com shows that 51% of the people who completed their online survey expressed
dissatisfaction with their professional and personal growth in Saudi organizations. A
similar study conducted in another Arab culture concludes that employees demonstrate
greater levels of satisfaction and commitment if they are given ample opportunity for
personal as well as professional growth in their organization (Taylor, 2002).
From the regression analysis there is significant relationship between employee‟s
working environment as a motivating factor and employee performance. A widely
accepted assumption is that better workplace environment motivates employees and
produces better results. Office environment can be described in terms of physical and
behavioral components. These components can further be divided in the form of different
independent variables. An organization‟s physical environment and its design and layout
can influence employee behavior in the workplace. Brill (1992) estimates that
improvements in the physical design of the workplace may result in a 5-10 percent
increase in employee productivity. Hay Group (2007), contends that work environment
includes a friendly, well-designed, safe physical space, good equipment and effective
communication, which will improve productivity. Well-designed and organized offices
and work areas make significant differences to how people feel about their work.
Working environment can give some depressing messages about how much the
organization value employees and the standards it expects from them. An independent
study conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, demonstrated that
physical work environment contributes a major factor affecting the decision of
employee‟s whether to stay or leave the job. Access to friendly and natural environment
helps to reduce job stress, depression and apprehension which are beneficial for health
environment as well.
These findings are similer to those of Stallworth and Kleiner (1996) who argue that
increasingly an organization‟s physical layout is designed around employee needs in
order to maximize productivity and satisfaction. They argue that innovative workplaces
can be developed to encourage the sharing of information and networking regardless to
job boundaries by allowing communication freely across departmental groups.
Extensive scientific research conducted by Roelofsen (2002) has also yielded indications
suggesting that improving working environment results in a reduction in a number of
complaints and absenteeism and an increase in productivity. The indoor environment has
the biggest influence on productivity in relation to job stress and job dissatisfaction. As
suggested by Govindarajulu (2004), in the twenty-first century, businesses are taking a
more strategic approach to environmental management to enhance their productivity
through improving the performance level of the employees. It is evident in the research
findings of Patterson et al., (2003) that the more satisfied workers are with their jobs the
better the company is likely to perform in terms of subsequent profitability and
particularly productivity.
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