Employee Motivation:

Employee involvement is the backbone of a TQM movement. An effective TQM effort requires the total involvement from every person at all levels of the organization. Employee involvement leads to meet the organization goals and objectives. Motivation means a process of stimulating people to accomplish desired goals. Motivation is the process of attempting to influence others to do your will through the possibility of reward. Motivation is the process of inducing people inner drives and action towards certain goals and committing their energies to achieve these goals. It improves employee involvement. It promotes job satisfaction and thus reduces absenteeism and turnover. It helps in securing a high level of performance and hence enhances efficiency and productivity. It creates a congenial working atmosphere in the organization and thus promotes interpersonal cooperation. Self esteem is needed for self confidence, achievement, competence, self respect, knowledge and for independence and freedom. The second group of esteem needs is those that related to one reputation needs for status, for recognition, for appreciation and the deserved respect of one’s fellows. After the needs of the body and security are satisfied the sense of belonging and acceptance become predominated in the motivation behavior. These needs are for friendship, love, belongingness and companionship.