What Drives Employees to Yield a High Work Performance?

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Introduction & Background
When approaching any type of research, there is a final goal that the researcher(s) wants to achieve, whether there is a hypothesis to test or exploratory data to gather and analyze. With my research, I wanted to relate to my current position at work and future promotion opportunities. In my current position as a Project Engineer, I have responsibilities of managing a project from start to finish while working with a cross functional team. Many times while working on a project, there are items that need to be assigned and/or completed and I can have a difficult time doing this because I do not have any direct reports. Through creating and maintaining good relationships, I am able to have some employees do things I ask them to, but there are always a few that will wait till there supervisor assigns them the task. As defined by Dr. Paul Mullen, motivation is the inner drive that causes one to act (Mullen, 1993). With this history, I wanted to focus on how I can motivate employees to do their best work_ what drives employees to yield a high work performance.
Research Design
When I first outlined my research project, I wanted to use my current employer as my population. This would allow me to get a very large population with an assortment of variables that I could evaluate to see if there are any trends between motivational factors and the selected variables. These variables would include which plant the employee works at; which would include a geographical variable since my employer has plants in three different states; which department the employee works in, which shift the employee works, which gender the employee is, and what age range the employee falls into. I presented this proposal to my ...

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...ons for future research starting with a better defined population sample. A better defined population sample would include a larger population sample for better statistical analysis and to find trends. Plus, by defining the population, the research can be focused for a company or a region, like a city or state. If the population is focused on a region, the population sample should be compared to the demographics of the region similar to how I compared my research to Wisconsin's demographics of gender and age. This would provide a confidence level to the research based off of the demographics.

References

Mullen, P. (1993). EMPLOYEE MONETARY SYSTEMS: THE PAST OR FUTURE IN EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION. Industrial Management,35(6), 6.
U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 12, 2014, from http://eadiv.state.wy.us/demog_data/pop2010/Profile/WI.pdf

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