How can a employee be motivated ?

Why would anyone go to work?  For money, lively hood, create a career, we need money it has to be generated. To work for an organization and excel, few things are needed employee own interest and passion for his work or output. To be able to function properly employee needs to have adequate training, infrastructure to execute his / her duties if more than one doing the same kind of job cohesion among workers is needed; they should jell well, or peer appreciation will be lost, so when forming a team the mind set grooming previous exposure, ability to learn, mentor get along etc has to be taken into count. People who do well money and recognition follow them. Performance is within one’s own self, motivation comes from one’s ability his / her passion, needs prevailing situation options and choice. Money creates greed, recognition is better like motivation, its intangible it increase your aura so the money that one takes home become justifiable.

Yes, I aggree recognition and rewards motivates employee... Monitory hike is temparary motivation over period of time it vanish and expect more... but reward and recognitions is long time motivation

yes sir you are very good

We must understand here that motivation is not mathematics and employees are not numbers. Each employee is a human being and humans have emotions attached to them.

Someone from a poor or modest family background would be motivated by money initially but as his liabilities get over, money does not contribute to motivation any longer.

The defence forces of any country would be the single largest manforce employers anywhere and i dont think money is used as a motivation there.

If you give any individual an option of picking between Bharat Ratna/Ashok Chakra against a bag 100 crore of Rs , not many would pickup the bag..

Rewards & Recognition will motivate the staff better than a Salary hike  as entire team knows the reason for such reward

I think rewards and recognition is probably the best way.

i think reward n recognition .............people need good behaviour by the other side..............

transcendental imagination ..and sleep ..and toostep...what a marriage !!

 must comment likhaya ..dhingra saheb !!

Salary,no doubt, is primary. That is  for physical sustenance. One deserves appreciation and encouragement  for the nice work. It shall certainly motivate.(It goes without saying that rewards are meaningful only when there is some provision for punishments  for the inefficient and bad performance.) 

A employee will be motivated when his efforts are recognised and rewarded. It makes an impact on the employee.. something to take home and share with his family and friends.. Thank you for the referral Mr. Joydeep.

REWARDS AND RECOGNATION TO A GOOD , HONEST EMPLOYEES ACHIVING TARGET IN TIME MUST BE THERE. OTHERWISE WHAT WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE IN A GOOD AND AN AVERAGE WORKER . EXCEPT THIS QUALITY IS ALSO A FACTOR AND SUCH PERSONS MUST BE CONSIDERED WHILE INCREAMENT AND PROMOTIONS.

only by giving good behviour tretment to empolyee.

Both are required better salary hike as well as reward and recognition. For new employee better salary hike for old employee reward and recognition.It is time related needs.But my view for all rewards and recognition must.

May I add something more to

the above mentioned reasons.

It is my experience that giving out controlled delegation

and empowerment to the employees to the upper limits as

defined in their suitably made Key Responsibity Areas and

known individual capabilities,  is the best way to motivate

employees. 

Rewards, recognistion and Salary hike will automatically

follow as they start to perform with a feeling of

responsibility and contentment of self acheivement.

I would request the managers to try this.

People's needs keep on changing, when their one need get fulfilled, he/she look for other needs... at some poriod of time Better Salary hike keep employee motivated but as soon as employee's needs get fulfilled he/she don't look for money they start looking for Rewards & Recognition... after getting love/belonging an human being star looking for self esteem then self actualization... when people start looking for self esteem then Recognition, attntion, social status, accomplishment, self respect etc become motivator factor for him/her .. not money/salary... hence motivation factor depends on the need stage of the emplyee ..