Unveiling Motivation Factors in the Tlokweng Land Board: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

Motivation is one of the many factors that contribute to employee performance. This is the force that drives employees’ behavior to produce a certain output. Job performance is an employee’s ability to integrate skills, experience, knowledge, and other available resources to deliver the expected outcome. Various studies have concluded that several factors contribute to employee performance. Management standards, level of commitment, knowledge of work, communication, motivation, and employee skills are just a few of these factors. With a clear and attractive motivating factor, employees gear all their efforts towards achieving the set goals, working through any challenges faced in the process. Motivated employees use their creativity to find solutions to the challenges that lead to the invention that we see today. This study sought to investigate how an increase in money, or lack thereof, as a motivating factor, influences employee performance. The literature review incorporates what other scholars have found to shed light on how compensation and promotion influence performance. The scope of this study is limited to the Tlokweng Land Board. This study adopted a descriptive research design. This study was conducted using questionnaires administered to respondents. Their responses were then coded for easy analysis to reach conclusions regarding the influence of their motivation. Descriptive statistics, such as frequency and mean, were used to analyze  the quantitative data. In the end, this study confirmed what has been discussed by other researchers in different organizations to be true for the Tlokweng land board as well; money is among the biggest motivators for public employees.