Employee Motivation as a Tool to Achieve Sustainability of Business Processes

Silvia Lorincová, Peter Štarchoň, Dagmar Weberová, Miloš Hitka and Martina Lipoldová
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Peter Štarchoň: Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Odbojárov 10, P.O. BOX 95, 82005 Bratislava, Slovakia
Dagmar Weberová: Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Univerzitní 2431, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic
Martina Lipoldová: Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, Ul. T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 13, 1-15

Abstract: Employee performance and their new ideas, as well as their efforts to promote the company in positive ways help build the values of an enterprise. Properly motivated managers, white-collar, and blue-collar workers use their performance to affect the business efficiency, and therefore the success and sustainability of the enterprise. Selecting the right structure of motivation factors, especially those aimed at job category and gender, is the main role of enterprise management. The aim of this study is to analyze and define differences in the perception of the preferred level of motivation in terms of gender and job category. The questionnaires were given to randomly selected employees working in Slovak enterprises in order to ensure variability and randomness of respondent selection which is necessary for relevant data acquisition. Following the average, the order of the importance of motivation factors of 3720 respondents was defined. The Student’s t-test and Tukey’s HSD test were used. We confirmed that there are statistically significant differences in the perception of the motivation in terms of job category. Moreover, we proved the significant differences between genders in the job category of blue-collar workers. We did not observe differences between genders in the other job categories studied. The results reported should be accepted and implemented in motivational programs by the employees of human resource departments as a way to keep up with strategic human resource management.

Keywords: strategic human resource management; sustainable work systems; employee motivation; job category; gender differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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