Motivation drives better performance in public sector / Fatin Nabilah Mohd Sharbini and Sukamafarina Ujai

Motivation seen as element needed to improve the productivity of employees in organization. Motivation is interior drive that causes a person to decide to take action and it is an employee’s intrinsic enthusiasm about and also the drives to accomplish activities related to work. This means that motivation is one of the factor that affecting employees’ performance in completing tasks and works given in particular period of time. An employee may display very low levels of job involvement. At this point the employee has disengaged and no longer considers their importance of work in achieving goals and mission and at the same time the employee now has a low level of commitment. So that, when the commitment is gone, poor performance is on the rise. The employee has no longer can identify priority of achievement and is unwilling to put forth much effort on its behalf. Improving employee motivation and morale is a critical concern for managers in organization in order to increase productivity. This is why there is a discussion on employee motivation and performance, including a review of literature describing views on factors that affecting motivation in employees’ performance in an organization. The study closes with a classification of methods for an organization on realizing the dominant factors in four categories which includes physiological need, security need, and need for relatedness and esteem need.