Motivational Potential among Railway Employees

By : Lovely Gyan, Archana Shukla

Page No: 167-176

Abstract
People as a resource among all the resources are the most precious resource in an organization. It is, therefore, important to see that the people are constantly kept motivated so that they contribute more productively towards achieving the organization’s goals. The focus of the present study is to ascertain motivational potential and identify perceived job characteristics among Railway Employees. This study explored Motivational potential on a sample of railway employees of Signal Telecommunication department. A job characteristics model was constructed to ascertain the Motivation potential of the sample and a checklist based on Herzberg’s model of motivation was used to identify needs and motivation factors in the workplace. The results show that the employees of the sample are having average motivation potential. It was observed that the most preferred factor in job was ‘Responsibility & Accountability’. The least preferred factor was found to be ‘job possibility of individual growth’.

Authors :
Lovely Gyan : Research Scholar — Lucknow University, Lucknow - 226007.
Archana Shukla : Dean, Faculty of Arts & Director — AIBAS, Amity University Haryana.