The relationship between motivation and employee performance: McClelland’s theory of needs / Fatin Syahirah Sidek

• Main Author: Sidek, Fatin Syahirah
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Personnel management. Employment management; Communication; Goal setting in personnel management; Job satisfaction; Employee motivation; Performance standards
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/72958/1/72958.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/72958/

The study focuses on relationship between Motivation and Employee Performance among employees in Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Melayu Terengganu (MAIDAM) based on McClelland’s theory of needs. In this study, employee performance considered as the dependent variable while the independent variables is based on McClelland’s theory that is the need for power (nPow), the need for affiliation (n Aff) and the need for achievement (nAch). The objective of this research is to investigate whether McClelland’s theory of needs have effect or not with employee performance at MATDAM. One hundred and ninety-one (191) questionnaires had been used and distributed to the respondents in order to get feedback from employees at MAIDAM. Luckily, all the questionnaires were given back with marked by all employees. The data collected was then tested on its frequency analysis, and then further analyzed by reliability and Pearson correlation coefficient was used to test research questions in this study. Based on the result obtained in this study, employees in MAIDAM have related with motivation and employee performance. This study has conducted at MAIDAM Terengganu during industrial training period.