The relationship between employee motivation and job performance among support staff at Lundu District Council / Nafilia Jilin

Employee motivation is very important to improve their job performance in the organization nowadays. It is an important element to the organization because motivated employees can improve their skills and can fulfill their needs by performing betterjob for their organization. The objective of this research is to study the relationship between employee motivation and job performance among support staffofdepartments in Lundu District Council. This research is using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need Theory as a model to succeeding this research. The researcher only used three level which are individual needs, personal preferences and working environment. The method that have been used in this research is non-experimental which is used in the correlation research. The correlation is used to help and identify the variables of the relationship between employee motivation and job performance among non-academic staffin the organization. This research is adopting a questionnaire survey from Mohd Said’ et. al, (2015) and is being distributed to 100 employees in Lundu District Council. All the Cronbach’s Alpha is acceptable and in a good score. Based on the investigation, the relationship between individual needs, personal preferences, working environment and job performance were existing and significant.