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Topic for Final and Literature

Essense of the study: I am interested in understanding how employee motivation relates to productivity within an organization.

Research title: Impact of Motivation on an Organizational Productivity

Search terms: Motivation, theories of motivation, productivity, impact of motivation on employee performance and ways to motivate employees.

Outcomes of database search: after using the five key search terms to look for information related to the subject of the study in journal articles a number of outcomes were achieved. To start with, the search revealed information on what motivation means and its importance in general life. Secondly, the search terms helped in getting information on different theories of motivation, such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which will be critical in completing this study. Thirdly, the search terms helped in understanding the concept of productivity and the ways in which motivation impacts on individual employee productivity/performance. Lastly, the search helped in getting sources of data on the ways in which an organization can motivate employees in order to increase their productivity. In general the search terms helped in getting sources of data that will be critical in completing my study.

Modifying search terms: for purposes of ensuring that the data obtained using the search terms was relevant to the topic of the study, the data search process was minimized to issues related to the impact of motivation on organizational performance. Therefore, any data that was not related to this area was regarded as irrelevant.

Useful databases: online library databases were the most useful sources of data in this study. This because they had a wide variety of academic journals related to the subject of the study making it easier to search for literature related to the study within the shortest time possible.