Essays about: "rewards and recognition in employee motivation"

Found 4 essays containing the words rewards and recognition in employee motivation.

  1. 1. Retaining Knowledge Workers : A ranking of the most valuable Rewards

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för industriell ekonomi

    Author : Lars-Olof Strand; [2016]
    Keywords : Rewards; knowledge worker; motivation;

    Abstract : With the past decades of a growing trend in the western-world where knowledge workers are replacing traditional workers the importance of finding ways to attract, retain and engage the former is becoming even more challenging as the preferences of this kind of workers is totally different than for other workers. Non-monetary rewards such as achievement, autonomy and feedback have for a long time been highlighted by researchers to be of importance, yet the human relations departments (HR) still seem not to have realized the importance of such rewards and while HR strategies often are focusing on total rewards as a summary of monetary and non-monetary rewards there is a lack of an uniform ranking of the importance in between them. READ MORE

  2. 2. How do Companies Reward their Employees

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Avd.)

    Author : Samuel Cudjoe; [2012]
    Keywords : Axiological; Extrinsic; Intrinsic; Methodology; Methodological assumption; Methodological triangulation; Ontological assumption; Paradigm; Positivism; Qualitative; Quantitative; Research design; Sampling frame; Sample size; Unit of analysis;

    Abstract : This study is unique considering the location (Africa) and the industrial setting (Gold Mining) from which the research was studied as reward systems had mostly been studied in the North-American and European settings. Thus, the study  considered  rewards from the perspective of the African and its natural resource industries such as the gold mining industry. READ MORE

  3. 3. Motivation by monetary rewards

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Ali Karandish; [2011]
    Keywords : Motivation; reward system; monetary rewards; performance-based salary increase; outcome-based compensation.;

    Abstract : Background and discussion of the problem: As an employer, you want to keep your employees happy and motivated to perform at their best in the same direction as the company’s objectives. This is not always easy because people are all different with different needs, interests, goals and thoughts and therefore would be motivated by different things. READ MORE

  4. 4. Rewarding and Recognizing Employees : How IT professionals in Sweden and in Finland are motivated and prefer to be rewarded

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Yecenia Rivera-Ortiz; Nghi Tran; [2007]
    Keywords : Information Technology; Motivation; Rewards and Recognition;

    Abstract : Title:Rewarding and Recognizing Employees: How IT Professionals in Sweden and in Finland are motivated and prefer to be rewarded Authors: Yecenia Rivera Ortiz Nghi Tran Supervisor: Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen Course: Master Thesis in Business Administration Purpose: With this thesis we want to investigate through an empirical and a theoretical study how IT professionals in Sweden and in Finland are motivated and how they prefer to be rewarded and recognized. READ MORE