The relationship between motivational factors and job performance among employees at Politeknik Kuching, Sarawak / Christy Nangku Nyawin

Motivation plays an important role in all organizations either public or private firms. Without motivating the employees, organizations cannot run and cannot achieve their goals. The aim of this study is to have better understanding on motivational factors of employee and their job performance. The independent variables in this study are motivational factors namely promotion, salary, and job security. Thus, the dependent variable isjob performance. To study about the motivation, theory of Maslow’s Need Hierarchy and Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory were used as the basis for this study because both theories are similarly which concerned with individual needs and goals, and disconnected to employee motivation and job performance. The research question has been answered by the findings showed that there is a positive relationship between motivational factors (salary, promotion, and job security) and job performance among employees in Politeknik Kuching, Sarawak. The employees feel more motivated if they are satisfied with their jobs and rewards provided by the organization and then can increase and improve their job
performance. Due to the findings all independent variables that showed positive significant relationship affected employee performance. Several recommendations are given in this study such as giving the best motivation to employee, add another data collection method and change or increase the population. The future researcher also can conduct the study at different places to seek the different data and results from another
respondent.