relationship between motivation and organizationism in islamic working environment
Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Motivation in Islam among IIUM Employees
Introduction
Work motivation is important to encourage a worker to improve productivity and achieve organizational goals. In Islamic perspective, motivation is a form of drive that can influence humans to performance act. In work place, employers are faced with the task which is motivating employees and creating high job satisfaction among their staff. Program and policy can develop job satisfaction and motivate employees. When the employer understands the benefits of job satisfaction and motivation in the workplace, though, the investment in employee-related policies can be justified (Anderson, 2012).
Therefore, researchers believe that there are relationship between job satisfaction and motivation. This paper is to study work motivation in Islam the definition of motivation in Islamic terms and how it can improve or decrease the work motivation among Muslim employees. The objective of this study is mainly focus on the elements that can contribute into work satisfaction and work motivation in an Islamic environment such as: job satisfaction, marital status, religiosity and experience, these are all the independent variables that we would like to study their effect on work motivation among IIUM staff members. Hypotheses of this study are:
1. Thos who are married may be motivated to excel the task than those who are single.
2. The more experience the person has the more motivated he became.
3. The more job satisfaction increase among workers they tend to be motivated to do the task.
4. The more religious the worker is the more he/she motivated to excel in work.
Moreover, this paper is intended to answer questions:
1. How can marital status effect work motivation?
2. What is the role of religion in work motivation?
3. What is the relationship between experience and work motivation?
4. How can job satisfaction increase work motivation?
Therefore, the core objectives of
Introduction
Work motivation is important to encourage a worker to improve productivity and achieve organizational goals. In Islamic perspective, motivation is a form of drive that can influence humans to performance act. In work place, employers are faced with the task which is motivating employees and creating high job satisfaction among their staff. Program and policy can develop job satisfaction and motivate employees. When the employer understands the benefits of job satisfaction and motivation in the workplace, though, the investment in employee-related policies can be justified (Anderson, 2012).
Therefore, researchers believe that there are relationship between job satisfaction and motivation. This paper is to study work motivation in Islam the definition of motivation in Islamic terms and how it can improve or decrease the work motivation among Muslim employees. The objective of this study is mainly focus on the elements that can contribute into work satisfaction and work motivation in an Islamic environment such as: job satisfaction, marital status, religiosity and experience, these are all the independent variables that we would like to study their effect on work motivation among IIUM staff members. Hypotheses of this study are:
1. Thos who are married may be motivated to excel the task than those who are single.
2. The more experience the person has the more motivated he became.
3. The more job satisfaction increase among workers they tend to be motivated to do the task.
4. The more religious the worker is the more he/she motivated to excel in work.
Moreover, this paper is intended to answer questions:
1. How can marital status effect work motivation?
2. What is the role of religion in work motivation?
3. What is the relationship between experience and work motivation?
4. How can job satisfaction increase work motivation?
Therefore, the core objectives of
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