Employee Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Performance in Uganda’s Oil Sub-sector

Jackson Bwire Mc¹ ,  Johnson Ssekakubo², Freddie Lwanga³, George Ndiwalana⁴

¹Cavendish University

2Department of Management Science, Makerere University Business School

³Department of Human Resource Management Makerere University Business School

⁴Department of Accounting Makerere University Business School

Corresponding author Email: kimayoka@gmail.com

Accepted 07 July 2014

Abstract

Employee motivation plays a critical role bringing about energizing employees to commit their time and efforts to the organization. However, it is unclear whether this translates into job satisfaction. It is even more unclear whether employee motivation and job satisfaction brought about organizational performance. This study, examined the relationship between employee motivation, job satisfaction and organizational performance on palm oil project found in Kalangala district of Uganda. A quantitative research design incorporating in quantitative research methods such as survey and questionnaires were used to gather the data. The gathered data were analyzed using factor analysis, correlation and regression analysis.  Findings reveal that there is a positive relationship between Employee Motivation and Job Satisfaction (r = .381**, p<.01) and also a positive relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Performance (r = .479**, p<.01). The Employee Motivation and Job Satisfaction were both positively related to Organizational Performance (r = .618**, p<.01) and (r = .479**, p<.01) respectively. Results indicate that if employees are well motivated through, for example, fair promotions and justifiable salary differences, they will work more towards a better performance of the organization.

Keywords: Employee Motivation, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Performance