Does Salary Motivate Employees?

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Does Salary Motivate Employees? Abstract Employees' performance has been established to be directly related to employees' motivation. This assertion was corroborated by different management theories since the works of Frederick Taylor on 'The Principle of Scientific Management' in 1911 and Henry Gantt on 'Works, Wages and Profits' in 1913. Modern employees' motivation management methods have evolved which discredited Taylor's "differential rate piece-work" and Gantt's "task and bonus wage" systems. Introduction What motivates you about work? Is it all about money? For many people, the obvious motivator is money - a bigger salary and great benefits. We know that although money can be important, but in this research we will try to find out whether this is the only one and the most important factor motivate the employees most. Motivation is the catalyst that spurns employees' eagerness to work without pressure. To motivate is to provide employees with a motive to do some tasks. It is to cause or provoke somebody to act either positively or negatively. To say that nobody can motivate employees at work is like saying there are no influential leaders, there are no effective managers, there are no motivational speakers, the psychologists in sports management teams are useless and that motivation is not achievable. Motivation has been used by effective managers to prompt ordinary people to achieve uncommon results in all fields of endeavors. Objective The objective of this research is to find out the Relationship between salary and motivation. Whether employees are motivated to work harder if their salary is increased. Review of Literature Herzberg (1987) identified two main categories of motivational factors: contextual factors and descriptive factors. The first factors include salaries, working conditions, organization strategy etc. The second

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