| dc.description.abstract | The study investigated the relationship between employee Motivation and Job Satisfaction.
Employee Motivation was treated as an independent variable and Job Satisfaction as a dependent
variable. Employees who are not satisfied cannot perform their tasks optimally and thus they
have to be motivated to perform their tasks effectively and efficiently and thus helping the
organization achieve its goals. The objectives of the study were therefore to investigate whether
financial incentives, manager’s leadership style, employees’ promotion based on merit and staff
capacity building affected employees job satisfaction and at the end their productivity which
determined whether the government departments goals were achieved. Descriptive survey
research design was used in the study and the stratified random sampling and simple random
sampling techniques were applied to select respondents from the staff members of the
government departments. The study was carried out in Isiolo County in four government
departments. A cross-sectional study was used to obtain information on the influence of
employee motivation on job satisfaction. The respondents were senior managers, middle level
managers and subordinates of Isiolo County in government departments .Four government
departments namely The Kenya Forest Service, livestock Department, Education department
and the health Department for that purpose were researched on . The data was collected from a
sample of two hundred employees within the four government departments that were sampled
using the stratified random sampling and the simple random sampling methods. Primary data
was collected through standard structured questionnaires and interviews to determine the
influence of financial incentives, manager’s leadership style, promotions based on merit,
qualifications and competence and staff capacity building on employees’ job satisfaction. Data
was analyzed quantitatively .Quantitative research made use of techniques which produced
quantifiable data inform of numbers and ensured that there is random sampling of the research
participants to ensure representativeness. Data was analyzed using statistical package for social
sciences. The findings shows that 95% of the employees in government departments were highly
satisfied with a salary increment and 99% would resign from their departments if offered better
terms elsewhere.72% of the employees preferred a democratic leadership style and 96 % would
prefer to be involved by their senior managers in making key decisions in the various
government departments.97% would like their managers to delegate some of their tasks to
them,98% were satisfied with a staff promotions based on merit and competence policy while
91% strongly agreed that staff trainings helped to improve on their job satisfaction. This study
found that financial incentives was the greatest motivation factor towards employees’ job
satisfaction followed by staff promotions based on merit and competence policy, then the
leadership style of senior managers and finally employees capacity building. For an organization
to achieve its objectives in productivity employees’ motivation and job satisfaction are of critical
importance being the greatest asset in any organization. The findings of the study are important
to chief executive officers, human resource managers, and program/ project managers in both
public and private sectors. | en |
