A multilevel motivation model for organizational performance enhancement

Every organization strives for profitability, consumer satisfaction and quality. In the era of global competitiveness every organization envisages performance enhancement for meeting their ends and to excel. There are innumerable factors affecting the performance of an organization. It has been stressed that soft options viz. the role of human beings, has an influencing impact on the performance. Survival and growth of an organization depends considerably on the performance of its employees, which in turn depends on two factors, i.e. (i) ability to work (ii) will to work. The first factor is determined by the quality of education, training, and experience that an employee has acquired. The second factor is more difficult to manage as it involves change in behavior and attitude of an employee towards work, or motivating him to work in a desired manner and give overall better performance. Therefore, motivated workforce is essential for efficient working and optimum productivity and thus for attaining the organizational objective of profitability, consumer satisfaction and quality. This paper discusses the concept of multilevel motivation i.e. different ‘motivators’ affect different levels in an organization. It draws upon a model for multilevel motivational aspects having a synergic effect with the performance enhancement.