Sometimes salary is not enough to encourage employees to do their jobs. Reward is the biggest motivator for an employee. While majority of managers feel that reward equals pay, some employees feel that some motivators are less tangible than pay. These motivators include such thing as job satisfaction, social status and various others. Employers and employee say they would benefit from time off rather than the mandate of extra pay for extra hours, says David Warner.
Employee performance depends on both motivation and ability of the employee.
Productivity depends on employee performance. Therefore, the two motivators discussed above are factors of productivity in the workplace. There is wide gaps between the way employees prefer to be rewarded and the way companies like to reward employees. The challenge for management is to improve the individual incentive plan that is working for the employer so that is also appeals to employees. Public managers sometimes have a harder time improving incentive plans for the employee because they have to look at all the concerns of the public organization whereas, private managers do not have to look at all the concerns of the private organization.