Employee Motivation at Workplace: Tesco Plc - Case Study Example

In the Steers and Rhodes (1978) model of absenteeism, employee turnout is principally established by an employee's capacity and incentive to attend. Thus attendance is alleged to be a function of job satisfaction (Harrison and Martocchio, 1998). However job satisfaction by itself without accompanying incentives can be misleading Palmer Morrel-Samuels (2009) a research psychologist at the Workplace Research Foundation, and lecturer at Michigan's School of Public Health highlighting this asserted that "People high in job satisfaction are often self-satisfied, but not particularly productive… by contrast, employee motivation cannot be purchased" (Serchuk, 2009, p. 2). A study at Medtronic, Inc.

, on the impact of motivation on employees, discerned that the firm’s market capitalization rose from $1.1 billion to $60 billion when the staff satisfaction index appreciated in the same period. This was also attributed to Medtronic’s successful incorporation of a perceptible organizational culture that reveals the dedication to veracity, client satisfaction, employee improvement, and accountable leadership (Gardner & Schermerhorn, 2004).The perspective of quantifying the impact of motivation on an organizations stock return was conducted in a study by the Workplace Research Foundation in conjunction with the University of Michigan led Morrel-Samuels.

This survey conducted over a seven-year period (2001-2007) covering 3,490 employees from 841 publicly listed firms at the Wall Street Journal’s 1,000 (covers 98 percent of U.S. GDP) clearly established the link between the listed stock trading companies performance that reported higher employee motivation as subsequently performing better at the browse than of those with less motivated staff (Serchuk, 2009).There is, therefore, a need to determine the importance of motivation as the real driving force in an organization and employee performance.

The impact of motivated staff vis-à-vis those perceived as de-motivated due to the environment prevailing in their workplace is established through this study at Tesco Plc within their U.K. stores. The survey of Tesco’s staff will question their job satisfaction and determine which factors play a central role in their perseverance at their career at Tesco or those that are inducing them to be de-motivated.