How can we achieve the goals through Motivation.

By: Raja Iftikhar Ahmed

Overview of Industry

Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited is the largest integrated gas company serving more than 3.9 million consumers and is certified against ISO and OHSAS standards. The company has over 48 years of experience in maintenance and operation of high pressure gas transmission and distribution systems.

Goal

industry is very important for the economy of the country and as well as for employing the man power in it, we should focus on the motivation level of the man power of the company. If the company employees are motivated then they will be helpful to get better results and will achieve the goals or objectives otherwise this is night mare that we can achieve our goals or objectives with out the devoted and motivated persons.

Objectives
To examine the relationship between motivation and employee performance. To examine the relationship between job satisfaction and employee performance.

Motivation
Motivation is the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal directed behaviors. Motivation is very important for organizations and plays very vital role in the organizations.

Importance of Motivation

Puts Human Resources into Action Improves Level of Efficiency of Employees Leads to achievement of organizational goals Builds friendly relationship Leads to stability of work force The more motivated the employees are, the more empowered the team is. The more is the team work and individual employee contribution, more profitable and successful is the business. Motivation will lead to an optimistic and challenging attitude at work place.

Benefits of Motivation to Person

When a person is motivated then he or she will also get rewards in different ways, these rewards are extrinsic and intrinsic. The motivated person will definitely satisfied with the job and task which he or she is performing. The job satisfaction is also very prominent and important factor for getting rewards.

Benefits of Motivation to Organization

The motivated person or team will be very beneficial to any organization. Here we will discuss the benefits of the organization, that in which way an organization gets more and more better results through motivated persons or teams.

Research Methodology

A general phenomenon has to be acknowledged before finalizing the research strategy. For this research, meaningful questions were designed while embracing epistemology thoughts which help explain what are the knowledge, their value, sources and limitations. The nature of this research which is purely conducted for finding a solution of a business problem is indeed an applied research instead of basic research.

Qualitative or Quantitative Research

Quantitative research generates numerical data or information that can be converted into numbers. Qualitative Research on the other hand generates non-numerical data.

Research Instrument

The questionnaire is used as a research instrument to gather large amount of data in a relatively short period of time. The data to be collected is limited and relative to the variables being examined in the questionnaire. The advantage is to quite apparent. For one it is very easy and inexpensive to administer to a large number of people simultaneously. Second, participants are likely to be comfortable in answering the questions since they can maintain their anatomy.

Analysis of Data
The following results and analysis of data we gathered through our research. And the sample size was 40 employees including managers and workers. Some of them are discussed here.

Questionnaire

Do you know what are the company's principles and mission?

Percentage 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Yes No Don't Know Percentage

Questionnaire

Do you find you are motivated to work?

Percentage 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Yes No Don't Know

Percentage

Questionnaire

Which of these factors do you feel affects your ability to work?

Percentage Recognition Coopreation Competition Lack of Control Challenges 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Percentage

Questionnaire

What do you think will motivate you to work the most?

Percentage

Job Security Financial Rewards Job Satisfaction Promotion Rewards

Questionnaire

Do you work in a safe, healthy and comfortable environment?

Strongly Agreed Agreed Don't Know Disagreed Strongly Disagreed

Questionnaire

As an employee, do you feel that you receive sufficient and appropriate on-the-job performance recognition?

Alw ays Never Some Times

Conclusion

ANY QUESTIONS?