Keeping Employees Motivated

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Keeping Employees Motivated

Hertzberg’s Two-Factor Theory categorizes job satisfaction and motivation into two groupings of factors. These comprise hygiene factors and motivation factors. Hence, the general premise of the respective theory is that if a manager or an employer is attempting to boost satisfaction as well as job performance for a worker, he or she needs to tackle the aspects that affect an employee’s job satisfaction. Hygiene factors are imperative for the presence of motivation within the workplace. However, they do not guarantee positive satisfaction in the long-term. However, if such factors are absent, they create dissatisfaction. In this respect, the factors within an employee benefits plan may comprise the pay, organizational and administrative policies, fringe benefits, status, physical working conditions, interpersonal relations, and job security. With reference to hygiene factors, a good employee benefits plan focuses on the physical interests that may profit the employees particularly in the long-term. Facets such as salary increments, job security, and fair working conditions are considered most beneficial to an employee benefits plan. In the long term though, dissatisfaction will arise, and will be explicitly blamed on external aspects such as company policies, salary frameworks, and peer relationships. Consequently, hygiene factors cannot be deemed as motivators. Motivational aspects usually create positive satisfaction and innate to work. These factors motivate the workers for a greater performance. Such factors are known as satisfiers and involved within job performance. Employees find these features intrinsically gratifying. The motivators represent the psychological demands that are identified as a supplemental benefit. In an employee benefits plan, such motivational factors comprise recognition, a sense of accomplishment, responsibility, promotional, and growth opportunities, and the meaningfulness of the respective work. Despite the abstractness of these individual factors, Hertzberg’s premise establishes them as enduring in comparison to the hygiene factors.