Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Στρατηγικού ΜάνατζμεντLibrary of the Faculty of Economics and of the Faculty of Business Administration
Author:
Parthenaki Afroditi
Supervisors info:
Παρασκευή Μπουφούνου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο
Original Title:
Η παρακίνηση του ανθρώπινου δυναμικού σε Οργανισμούς του Δημοσίου Τομέα. Η περίπτωση της Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης - Ο.Τ.Α. Α΄ Βαθμού Περιφέρειας Αττικής.
Translated title:
Work motivation in public sector organizations. The case of Local Government Organizations-municipal level in the Region of Attica.
Summary:
Motivation is a complex concept and has been the subject of study over the last decades. Surveys-researches have shown that employee’s motivation is related with important job attitudes and could contribute to the increase of performance. Therefore, the effective employee’s motivation is a top priority of every organization, aiming to improve productivity and quality of its services and the success lies in its ability to create those conditions by providing the appropriate incentives that could lead the employees to a more efficient behavior.
The subject of present thesis is work motivation in public sector organizations and the purpose of this research is to identify, record and analyze the most important factors-incentives that could contribute in the improvement of worker’s performance, as well as to find out if these factors are differentiated in relation to their demographic features such as gender, age, educational level, hierarchy level and working experience. The major overtime theories of motivation are analyzed for further understanding of the theoretical background and the case of Local Government Organizations-municipal level in the Region of Attica is being investigated to examine work motivation as above and draw conclusions.
The method used for the research was primary research through the questionnaire «What motivate you? » of Lyman W. Porter which is attached to the annex A. The survey was conducted from March to May 2018 and the sample consisted of 647 employees working in the services of Local Government Organizations-municipal level in the Region of Attica. For the processing and analysis of collected data we used the statistical program SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) v.22.
The survey revealed that the most important motivating factors for the civil servants are self-esteem, recognition, appreciation and respect received from supervisors and colleagues and the opportunity to give help to other people. Security and stability of employment is fourth in the preference scale while other equally quite important factors follow the ranking. In addition, differences are found in the views of employees according to their demographic features.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Motivation, motive, motivation theories, public sector, Local Government Organizations
