Effects of Employee Motivation on Organizational Performance; the Case of Arba Minch University, Sawla Campus Ethiopia

Abstract

The study was conducted to examine the effect of employees’ motivation on organizational performance in case of AMU, specifically in sawla campus. The study was conducted with 51 academic staff and 156 administrative staff as the respondents for the study. To overcome the basic research questions explanatory research design was used. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of the correlation depicts that, there was statistically positive and significant relationship between employees training, employees salary, working and organizational performance with (r= .736**, P<0.01), (r=.790**, p<0.01), (r= .897**, p<0.01) respectively, The result of the regression model results in R Square value of 0.864 indicating that 86.4% of the variation in organizational performance was explained by the motivational factors. Among the motivational factors, employees training has with (β= .106, p<0.01), and employees salary with (β= .095, p<0.05) statistically significant and positively influences organizational performance. In order to improve the organizational performance. AMU, sawla campus in collaboration with concerned government bodies, it is butter to adjust capacity building trainings for the staffs by coordinating the available organizational resources, improving employees salary in collaboration with concerned government bodies and policy makers, and giving trainining for employees for the increment of organizational performance.