At one point, motivation is what drives us forward, towards achieving the goals. In every business environment, every employee has its own goal. The managers need to know what drives their employees to perform better, since if the individual performance is raised, the organizational performance increases too. The employer needs to know if his employees reward is money-related, or maybe it is self-satisfaction, feel of empowerment or recognition of his colleagues. What matter is having workers have something to strive for, some force that drives them towards his goal. In this paper we try to explain step by step motivational theories, introduce motivation as concept, and find out antecedents (attitudes towards employees, reward system, supportive organizational culture and employee self-efficacy) and consequences (job satisfaction, involvement, work commitment, loyalty, organizational and individual performance) of employee motivation. We are going to focus mainly on voluntary environment where the circumstances and decision making factors are flexible. The research method conducted was based on survey questionnaire where 300 respondents - workers gave their answer to the research question. The findings mainly provided a neutral agreement level of respondents for the research questions expect the negative amount of attitudes towards employees and positive amount of individual performance in these circumstances. The findings suggested that the respondents of the questionnaire are not motivated both extrinsically and intrinsically.
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