Employee Intrinsic Motivation and The Attainment of the Organisation Goals: A Case of Private University in Malawi
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Date
2020-01
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Dr. Nwaomah, Angela Ewhonne
Tsukani, Rose Mandala
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Employee motivation is a very important subject as far as the achievement
of organisation goals in universities is concerned. This has been recognised
by some studies on staff motivation in Malawi and even abroad.
Nevertheless, not much has been done on the factors that affected the
achievement of organisation goals. Therefore, this study examined the
effect of intrinsic motivation factors on the achievement of organisation
goals at Malawi Adventist University.
A causal type of study design conducted in one month was used for
the study. The university population was two hundred forty-one employees
whose employment status was permanent and contract, teaching and nonteaching excluding those on wages. To ensure that all employees were
represented, employees were randomly selected for the study. Krejicie and
Morgan pre-calculated sample size table was used
to select a sample of 181 employees from the population. Data was
collected with a self –structured questionnaire validated with Cronbach
alpha reliability coefficient of .579 on intrinsic motivation factors and .690
on the attainment of organisation goals. A total of 146 copies of the
questionnaire were validly completed and returned representing 81%
response rate. Descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression
analyses were used to analyse the data.
The results revealed that at the 0.05 level of significance, intrinsic
motivation factors such as nature of work and responsibility significantly
and positively affected the achievement of organisation goals at Malawi
Adventist University as evidenced by the p-values of (.180, 1.961and .052)
and (.225, 2.574 and .011).
The study concluded that intrinsic motivation factors of work life
balance, nature of work, equity and fairness, responsibility and recognition
are important towards achieving organisation goals even though their
importance were not at equal proportion. Therefore, recommendation was
made to help the management to optimize the attainment of organisation
goals at Malawi Adventist University.
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Employee, Motivation, Intrinsic motivation, Organisation, Achievement of organisation goals