Employee Motivation

The success of any organization is directly proportional to the employee’s motivation from the leadership. Motivation of the employees is considered as an important factor which is used in improving employee performance thus helping any business or organization to achieve its long term objectives. Leaders can use their positions to motivate employees through incentives and recognition. Consequently, performance of the employees can also be awarded through cash incentives as it improves the morale for employees to increase their capabilities. The long term impact of employee motivation is increase of performance which is evident in productivity at the final analysis. The top management should implement programs which are aimed at increasing performance through employee motivation. This paper thus covers employee motivation and productivity in the workplace.
HOW STRONG LEADERSHIP CAN MOTIVATE
There are many ways in which strong leadership can motivate the employees in an organization. Strong leadership can be used to energize a team in the workplace. A strong leader should energize others and create a positive correlation between the workers. Moreover, the leader should be able to pool energy from each worker so as to improve their performance and their productivity as a team. Strong leaders have great reserves of spiritual, emotional and physical energy. The leader should be able to create a time for reflection of performance and also interpersonal evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of every employee. This is because the investment in employees helps to improve performance and also improve motivation (Adair, 1998).
Strong leadership in the workplace can help to motivate the employees through effective communication. Communication helps to influence employees to improve their performance. In addition, delegation of duties within an organization is carried through communication and it is thus essential for employees to communicate their affairs in the

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