The study on intrinsic and extrinsic reward that effect employee’s motivation in Khalifa Production Sdn Bhd / Izatul Ashikin Roslan and Siti Sabirah Shahidan

Motivation is the management process influencing behavior of knowledge on what make people think. It contributes to the process of stimulating people to act and achieve specific goals. As motivation concern, reward system is an important tool for management use as the channel of employee’s motivation. Currently, the reward programs are implementing either in public or private sectors. Previous study indicates that there are many factors that influencing on level of employee’s motivation. Present research study was focused only on two factors which are intrinsic and extrinsic reward.

This study has been conducted in Khalifa Production SDN BHD to examine the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards relationship with employees’ motivation. The target population was all employees in Khalifa Production which is 30 people. The objective of the research is to identify the significant relationship between employee’s motivation with two factors which are intrinsic and extrinsic reward. Result of present study show that reward generally has a positive effect on motivation. Specifically, the findings indicate that extrinsic was positively related to motivation. Intrinsic rewards also found to have a positive effect on motivation. A discussion on the findings, limitations, and future research are provided.