An Analysis of Employee Motivation at Sakthi Sugars Limited

Motivation is a very important component of any well performing system. Motivation is designed to attract employees to act in the best interest of the firm or industry. Some employees are having no effort in their jobs even they try to motivate and they are interested to avoid the workplace, and they produce work with low quality. Hence, employee motivation has always been a central problem for the owners and managers in particular that sugar industry. So, the researcher has aimed to examine the motivational practices of employees in paper industry with special reference to Sakthi Sugars Limited. For the purpose, the researcher has selected the 80 employees by using purposive sampling method. The researcher has collected their responses about the practices provided by industry through a well-structured questionnaire that has used to collect socio-economic information and motivational practices of employees with using Likert 5-point scaling technique. In order to interpret the obtained sample results, statistical instruments such as percentage analysis, mean score analysis, standard deviation, ANOVA analysis and correlation analysis were used. It is observed from the findings that their employee motivational activities often improve favourably whenever the age, monthly wage and number of training programmes attended increase.