International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

search-icon

The Impact of Motivation on the Employee Performance and Job Satisfaction in IT Park (Software House) Sector of Peshawar, Pakistan

Open access
Motivation shows a crucial significant part in all private and public organizations. Organization cannot run and cannot attain their desire goals and objectives without motivating their employees. The main purpose of this research work was to find out the impact of motivation on employee performance and job satisfaction in IT Park (software house) sector of Peshawar, Pakistan. The data for current research study has been collected from distract Peshawar, Pakistan using structural questionnaire. The results from current study explores that motivation plays an important role toward the performance of employees and job satisfaction in the IT Park (software house) sector of Peshawar, Pakistan.
1. Azar, M & Shafighi, A. (2013). The Effect of Work Motivation on Employees’ Job Performance: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 9 ISSN: 2222-6990.
2. Ahmad, M. Wasay, E. & Malik, S. (2012). Impact of Employee Motivation on Customer Satisfaction: Study of Airline Industry in Pakistan: Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business, Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 6.
3. Akintoye, I.R. (2000). The place of financial management in personnel psychology. A Paper Presented as Part of Personnel Psychology Guest Lecture Series. Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
4. Bellenger, D.N. Wilcox, J.B. & Ingram, T.N. (1984). “An examination of reward preferences for sales managers”. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 4(2), 1 – 6.
5. Broussard, S. C. & Garrison, M. E. B. (2004). “The relationship between classroom motivation and academic achievement in elementary school-aged children”.Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 33(2), 106–120.
6. Chowdhury, M. S. (2007). Enhancing Motivation and Work Performance of the Salespeople: The Impact of Supervisors’ Behavior. African Journal of Business Management, 1 (9), 238-243.
7. Colquit, Le Pine, Wesson. (2009). Organizational Behavior.New York:Mc Graw Hill
8. Chughtai (2008): Impact of Job Involvement on Role Job performance and organizational citizenship behaviour.
9. Chaudhary, N & Sharma, B. (2012). Impact of Employee Motivation on Performance (Productivity) In Private Organization: International Journal of Business Trends and Technology, volume2, Issue 4.
10. Cole, Shawn, & Kartini Shastry. (2009). Smart money: The ect of education, cognitive ability, and nancial literacy on nancial market participation, Working paper no. 09-071, Harvard Business School.
11. Chen, Y., Lou, H. (2002). Toward an understanding of the behavioral intention to use a groupware application. Journal of End User Computing 14, 1–16.
12. Cammann, C., Fichman, M., Jenkins, D., Klesh, J. (1979). The Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (unpublishedmanuscript).
13. Dubin, Robert, Human relations in administration, prentice hall, New Delhi. (1977).
14. Dalton E. McFarland, Management principles and practice, Mcmillan New York. (1974).
15. Gouws, A. (1995). “Die verwantskap tussen motivering en werkstevredenheid van ‘n groep inligtingspesialiste (The relationship between motivation and job satisfaction of a group of information specialists)”. M.Bib. dissertation, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg.
16. Guay, F., Chanal, J., Ratelle, C. F., Marsh, H. W., Larose, S., & Boivin, M. (2010). “Intrinsic, identified, and controlled types of motivation for school subjects in young elementary school children”. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80(4), 711–735.
17. Habibah A. & Noran Fauziah, Y, “Job Motivation and Job Performance: Case of Recipients for Excellent Service in a Higher Education 1”, Malaysia Management Review. http://mgv.mim.edu.my/mmrsearch/9906/990608.htm
18. Herzberg, Frederick. (1968). "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?”. Harvard Business Review 46 (1): pp. 53–62.
19. Heslop, P., Smith, G.D., Metcalfe, C., & Macleod, J. (2002). Change in job satisfaction and its association with selfreported stress, cardiovascular risk factors and mortality. Social Science & Medicine, 54, 1589–1599.
20. Kiviniemi, M.T., M. Snyder & A.M. Omoto. (2002). Too many of a good thing? The effects of multiple motivations on stress, cost, fulfillment and satisfaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28: 732-743.
21. Kuvaas, B. & Dysvik, A. (2009). ‘‘Perceived nvestment in Employee Development, intrinsic Motivation and Work Performance’’, Human Resource Management Journal, 19(3), pp. 217 –236.
22. Kallberg, A.L., B.F. Reskin, & K. Hudson. (2000). “Bad Jobs in America: Standard and Nonstandard Employment Relations and Job Quality in the United States”. American Sociology Review 65(2):256-278.
23. Landy, F.J. (1985). Psychology of Work Behavior. Chicago, IL: The Dorsey Press.
24. Liu, C.H. (2013). The processes of social capital and employee creativity: empirical evidence from intraorganizational networks. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp: 1-17.
25. Luthans, F. (1998). Organizational Behavior. 8th ed. Boston: Irwin McGraw-Hill.
26. Locke, E.A. (1976). “What is Job Satisfaction?”.Organizational Behaviour and Human Performance. 4, pp. 309-336.
27. Locke, E. A. (1969). What is job satisfaction? Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 4, 309–336.
28. Lewis, G.B. & S.A. Frank. (2002).Who wants to work for the government? Public Administration Review, 62(4): 395-404.
29. Meyer, J.P, D.J. Stanley, L. Herscovitch & L. Topolnytsky. (2002). Affective, continuance and normative commitment to organization: A metaanalysis of antecedents, correlates and consequences. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 61: 20-52.
30. Ottenbacher, M. & R.J. Harrington. (2007).The innovation development process of Michelin-starred chefs. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 19: 444–460.
31. Pool, S.W. (1997). The relationship of job satisfaction with substitute of leadership, Leadership Behavior and Work Motivation.
32. Pallant, J. (2007). SPSS survival manual: A step-by-step guide to data analysis using SPSS version 15. Maidenhead, Berkshire, England: McGraw-Hill Education.
33. Robins Stephen p. organizational behaviour: concepts, controversies and Application, prentice hall of India, New Delhi, 6th edition, 1995.
34. Rashidpoor, M. (2000). Correlation analysis of organizational commitment and job performance of calculating organization personnel”, Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, Governmental Management Education Center, p.180.
35. Rao Subba P. (2005). Essential of HRM & Industrial Relationships, Pg (480 to 482).
36. Surbhi, S. (2012). Effect of Motivation on employee performance and Organizational Productivity. Journal of Applied Management & Computer Science, 1.
37. Spector, P.E. (2003). “Industrial and organizational psychology – Research and practice (3rd edition)”. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
38. Shadare, O. A. & Hammed, T. A. (2009). Influence of work motivation, leadership effectiveness and time management on employees’ performance in some selected industries in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences, 16, 7-17.
39. Siagian, & Sondra. (2009).The theory of motivation and its application. Rineka Cipta, Jakarta.
40. Schulze, S. & Steyn, T. (2003). Educator’s motivation: differences related to gender, age and experience. Acta Academia, 35(3), 138-160.
41. Steijn, B. (2002). HRM and job satisfaction in the Dutch public sector. Paper presented at the EGPA Conference in Potsdam, study group on Public Personnel Policies.
Ali, A., Bin, L. Z., Piang, H. J., & Ali, Z. (2016). The Impact of Motivation on the Employee Performance and Job Satisfaction in IT Park (Software House) Sector of Peshawar, Pakistan. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 6(9), 266-278.